Application of Geomorphometric Approach for the Estimation of Hydro-sedimentological Flows and Cation Weathering Rate: Towards Understanding the Sustainable Land Use Policy for the Sindh Basin, Kashmir Himalaya

Negative trends in land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are embodied in environmental, economic and social problems, keeping entire societies away from sustainable development goals (SDGs). This recognition incites a need for securing comprehensive and transdiciplinary knowledge on the complex interplay between LULCCs and their drivers. It should inform land use policy makers and produce adequate sustainable social responses. However, fragmentation in both academic and governmental arenas is an important impediment to the needed application of sustainability to land use policy. With this regard, the study offers a transdisciplinary, bottom-up and reproducible framework for understanding key drivers of LULCCs at the national/regional level where sustainable land use policies should be defined. Its main component is the repeated measure ANOVA of the expert survey data. The analysis allows aggregation of experts’ different disciplinary, professional and experiential perceptions and produces comparable results. It is tested in Serbia in three sub-periods during post-socialism. Main results confirm that LULCCs and drivers are complexly intertwined and need to be analysed within a comprehensive and transdisciplinary framework. Furthermore, the study should enable the transdisciplinary discussion, learning and knowledge coproduction that are required to inform land use policy makers about the needed trans-sectoral coproduction of policy responses towards SDGs.

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Public preference for sustainable land use policies – Empirical results from multinomial logit model analysis

10.31235/osf.io/npswd ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Abdishakur W. Diriye ◽

Osman M. Jama ◽

Jama Warsame Diriye ◽

Abdulhakim M Abdi

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Logit Model ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Multinomial Logit Model ◽

Multinomial Logit ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Status Quo ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Cultural Worldviews ◽

Land Use Policies

Public preferences for sustainable land use policy instruments and the motivations behind such preferences are important to make appropriate policies. Based on survey data (n = 309) from northeastern Somalia, we examined preferences for a set of land use policy instruments relative to no policy (i.e. the current status quo) and how cultural worldviews predict such preferences. We used a multinomial logit model to analyze the comparative evaluation of choices due to its interpretability and robustness to violations of normality. Overall, the results show that the respondents are likely to consent to all types of land use policy instruments relative to no policy and are more inclined to market-based and informational policy instruments. Specifically, preferences for regulatory policy instruments are positively associated with hierarchy and egalitarian worldviews and are negatively associated with fatalism and individualistic worldviews with only hierarchy and fatalism are significant. The market-based policy instrument is desirable to all cultural worldviews except fatalism, but only egalitarian and individual worldviews are significant. Preferences for informational policy instruments are positively associated with all cultural worldviews but only egalitarian worldviews showed a significant effect. Although there are some contradictions, these results are broadly consistent with the proposition of the cultural theory of risk. This study highlights that preferences for land use policies are heterogeneous with cultural worldviews mainly explaining the sources of this heterogeneity. It is evident that the respondents were willing to consent to land use policies relative to the status quo of no policy and indicates the need for concerted effort to reduce land degradation and deforestation in the country. We, therefore, recommend that policymakers incorporate the different ways that humans perceive and interpret social-environmental relations into policy decisions to achieve sustainable policy outcomes.

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Landscape analysis for sustainable land use policy: A case study in the municipality of Popielów, Poland

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.021 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 75 ◽

pp. 116-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Iga Solecka ◽

Beata Raszka ◽

Piotr Krajewski

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Landscape Analysis

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Toward a Sustainable Land Use Policy for Mars

Human Governance Beyond Earth - Space and Society ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-18063-2_4 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 43-49

Author(s):

Jacob Haqq-Misra

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Sustainable Land Use

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Sustainable Land-Use Pathway Ranking and Selection

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12197881 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (19) ◽

pp. 7881

Author(s):

Garth John Holloway

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Econometric Model ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Ranking And Selection ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Ethiopian Highlands ◽

Improved Technology ◽

Milk Market ◽

Policy Prescription

The desire for refining status quo cost–benefit protocols to fully encompass econometric model uncertainty motivates the search for improved technology. Availability of unique Ethiopian highlands milk-market livestock data provides an ideal laboratory for investigation of alternative land-use pathway designs. In these contexts, we present novel methodology for ranking and selecting sustainable ‘land-use pathways,’ arguing that the methodology is central to sustainable-land-use-policy prescriptions, providing essential innovation to assessments hitherto devoid of probabilistic foundation. Demonstrating routine implementation of Markov-Chain, Monte-Carlo procedure, ranking-and-selection enactment is widely disseminable and potentially valuable to land-use policy prescription. Application to a sample of Ethiopian-highlands, land-dependent households highlights empirical gains compared to conventional methodology. Applications and extensions that profit future land-use sustainability within the Ethiopian highlands and, also, more generally, are discussed.

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