The Ecology of Neolithic Farming Systems as Exemplified by the Avebury Region of Wiltshire.

Best known as a major prehistoric ceremonial centre, the Avebury region has also yielded a wealth of information regarding the origins, ecology and development of neolithic farming systems in the chalklands of southern England. This paper draws the various strands of evidence together, considers interpretative problems such as pollen survival, the status of bracken, the significance of forest regrowth, etc., and concludes by reconstructing the interplay between man and his environment during this crucial stage of economic development. Some form of mesolithic participation in early cereal cropping and barrow building is identified, and indeed, in being valley-based from the outset, neolithic settlement and land use patterns form a continuum with what had gone before. The spread of agriculture is seen to have had adverse consequences, not least of which were concomitant bracken invasions. In adapting to these more difficult secondary environments important social and economic changes occurred within the local farming communities.

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A Nation Within

10.1017/9781108987585 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ezra Rosser

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Economic Development ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

The Political ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Navajo Nation ◽

Land Reforms ◽

Tribal Government ◽

Use Patterns ◽

External Pressures

In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and over-grazing, oil and gas, uranium, and coal; yet Navajos continue to suffer from high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rosser shows the connection between the exploitation of these resources and the growth of the tribal government before turning to contemporary land use and development challenges. He argues that, in addition to the political challenges associated with any significant change, external pressures and internal corruption have made it difficult for the tribe to implement land reforms that could help provide space for economic development that would benefit the Navajo Nation and Navajo tribal members.

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Sustainable Land-Use Allocation Model at a Watershed Level under Uncertainty

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph182413411 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (24) ◽

pp. 13411

Author(s):

Yao Lu ◽

Min Zhou ◽

Guoliang Ou ◽

Zuo Zhang ◽

Li He ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Economic Development ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Ecological Factors ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Allocation Model ◽

Watershed Land Use ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Land Use Allocation

Land-use allocation models can effectively support sustainable land use. A large number of studies solve the problems of land-use planning by constructing models, such as mathematical models and spatial analysis models. However, these models fail to fully and comprehensively consider three uncertain factors of land-use systems: randomness, interval and fuzziness. 33Therefore, through the study of the watershed land-use system, this paper develops a land-use allocation model considering the regional land–society–economy–environment system under uncertain conditions. On the basis of this model, an interval fuzzy two-stage random land-use allocation model (IFTSP-LUAM) combining social, economic and ecological factors is proposed to provide sustainable development strategies at the basin level. In addition, the proposed IFTSP-LUAM takes into account the above three uncertainties and multistage, multiobjective, dynamic, systematic and complex characteristics of typical land-use planning systems. The results showed that the model considers more socioeconomic and ecological factors and can effectively reflect the quantitative relationship between the increase in economic benefits and the decrease in environmental costs of a land-use system. The model was applied to land-use planning of Nansihu River Basin in Shandong Province. The results provided a series of suitable land-use patterns and environmental emission scenarios under uncertain conditions, which can help the watershed environmental protection bureau and watershed land-use decision-makers to formulate appropriate land-use policies, so as to balance social and economic development and ecological protection. The simulation results can provide support for an in-depth analysis of land-use patterns and the trade-off between economic development and ecological environment protection.

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Changing Traditional Land use Patterns in the Great Himalayas: A Case Study of Lahaul Valley

Journal of Environmental Systems ◽

10.2190/6451-t2jn-0n11-r0j1 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 195-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

G. S. Singh ◽

S. C. Ram ◽

J. C. Kuniyal

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Traditional Land Use

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Conducting “Siteless Survey”: Results from Coastal New England

North American Archaeologist ◽

10.2190/rxce-py1q-pr1e-93m5 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 25-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jordan E. Kerber

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

New England ◽

Rhode Island ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Archaeological Survey ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Statistical Validity ◽

Survey Results ◽

Survey Strategy

Selecting an effective archaeological survey takes careful consideration given the interaction of several variables, such as the survey's goals, nature of the data base, and budget constraints. This article provides justification for a “siteless survey” using evidence from a project on Potowomut Neck in Rhode Island whose objective was not to locate sites but to examine the distribution and density of prehistoric remains to test an hypothesis related to land use patterns. The survey strategy, random walk, was chosen because it possessed the advantages of probabilistic testing, as well as the ease of locating sample units. The results were within the limits of statistical validity and were found unable to reject the hypothesis. “Siteless survey” may be successfully applied in similar contexts where the distribution and density of materials, as opposed to ambiguously defined sites, are sought as evidence of land use patterns, in particular, and human adaptation, in general.

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The effects of different land use patterns on the microclimate and ecosystem services in the agro-pastoral ecotone of Northern China

Ecological Indicators ◽

10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105522 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 106 ◽

pp. 105522 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yuejuan Yang ◽

Kun Wang

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Northern China ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns

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Modeling Community-Scale Natural Resource Use in a Transboundary Southern African Landscape: Integrating Remote Sensing and Participatory Mapping

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13040631 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 631

Author(s):

Kyle D. Woodward ◽

Narcisa G. Pricope ◽

Forrest R. Stevens ◽

Andrea E. Gaughan ◽

Nicholas E. Kolarik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Land Use ◽

Resource Use ◽

Training Data ◽

Systems Science ◽

Participatory Mapping ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Modeling Framework ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Human Habitation

Remote sensing analyses focused on non-timber forest product (NTFP) collection and grazing are current research priorities of land systems science. However, mapping these particular land use patterns in rural heterogeneous landscapes is challenging because their potential signatures on the landscape cannot be positively identified without fine-scale land use data for validation. Using field-mapped resource areas and household survey data from participatory mapping research, we combined various Landsat-derived indices with ancillary data associated with human habitation to model the intensity of grazing and NTFP collection activities at 100-m spatial resolution. The study area is situated centrally within a transboundary southern African landscape that encompasses community-based organization (CBO) areas across three countries. We conducted four iterations of pixel-based random forest models, modifying the variable set to determine which of the covariates are most informative, using the best fit predictions to summarize and compare resource use intensity by resource type and across communities. Pixels within georeferenced, field-mapped resource areas were used as training data. All models had overall accuracies above 60% but those using proxies for human habitation were more robust, with overall accuracies above 90%. The contribution of Landsat data as utilized in our modeling framework was negligible, and further research must be conducted to extract greater value from Landsat or other optical remote sensing platforms to map these land use patterns at moderate resolution. We conclude that similar population proxy covariates should be included in future studies attempting to characterize communal resource use when traditional spectral signatures do not adequately capture resource use intensity alone. This study provides insights into modeling resource use activity when leveraging both remotely sensed data and proxies for human habitation in heterogeneous, spectrally mixed rural land areas.

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The application of housing land-use patterns to achieve low CO2 emission in Medan City

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/1122/1/012023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1122 (1) ◽

pp. 012023

Author(s):

Wahyuni Zahrah ◽

Putri Radiysani Syam

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Co2 Emission ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Low Co2

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Assessing biophysical and socio-economic impacts of climate change on regional avian biodiversity

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-82474-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Simon Kapitza ◽

Pham Van Ha ◽

Tom Kompas ◽

Nick Golding ◽

Natasha C. R. Cadenhead ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Integrated Modelling ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Modelling Framework ◽

Avian Biodiversity ◽

Biodiversity Change ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractClimate change threatens biodiversity directly by influencing biophysical variables that drive species’ geographic distributions and indirectly through socio-economic changes that influence land use patterns, driven by global consumption, production and climate. To date, no detailed analyses have been produced that assess the relative importance of, or interaction between, these direct and indirect climate change impacts on biodiversity at large scales. Here, we apply a new integrated modelling framework to quantify the relative influence of biophysical and socio-economically mediated impacts on avian species in Vietnam and Australia and we find that socio-economically mediated impacts on suitable ranges are largely outweighed by biophysical impacts. However, by translating economic futures and shocks into spatially explicit predictions of biodiversity change, we now have the power to analyse in a consistent way outcomes for nature and people of any change to policy, regulation, trading conditions or consumption trend at any scale from sub-national to global.

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