Conservation of Polar Bear Pass, Bathurst Island, and the Emerging Comprehensive Conservation Policy for Northern Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Fenge
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Government Of Canada

During 1975 to 1984, a particularly divisive debate accompanied proposals to conserve Polar Bear Pass, NWT. Virtually all interests that participated in the debate supported a more comprehensive approach towards conservation of natural areas than had hitherto prevailed, and criticized the ad hoc manner in which conservation proposals were being handled by the Federal Government of Canada.Chastened by the experience with Polar Bear Pass, and suffering land-use allocation problems in many locations, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development responded with a Northern Land-use Planning Policy (Diand, 1981a, 1981b), and is now developing a comprehensive conservation policy.Future conservation reserves in northern Canada are likely to be established as a result of regional land-use planning. It is important, however, that conservation of natural areas in both Territories support northern political development and devolution of resource management authority to northern governments, and settlement of landclaims made by native peoples.

scholarly journals Developing a User Friendly Decision Tool for Agricultural Land Use Allocation at a Regional Scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumbangan Baja ◽  
Samsu Arif ◽  
Risma Neswati
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Soil Survey ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Land Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
User Friendly

Agricultural land use planning should always be guided by a reliable tool to ensure effective decision making in the allocation of land use and activities. The primary aim of this study is to develop a user friendly system on a spatial basis for agricultural land suitability evaluation of four groups of agriculture commodities, including food crops, horticultural crops, perennial (plantation) crops, grazing, and tambak (fish ponds) to guide land use planning. The procedure used is as follows: (i) conducting soil survey based on generated land mapping units; (ii) developing soil database in GIS; and (iii) designing a user friendly system. The data bases of the study were derived from satellite imagery, digital topographic map, soil characteristics at reconnaissance scale, as well as climate data. Land suitability evaluation in this study uses the FAO method. The study produces a spatial based decision support tool called SUFIG-Wilkom that can give decision makers sets of information interactively for land use allocation purposes.This user friendly system is also amenable to various operations in a vector GIS, so that the system may accommodate possible additional assessment of other land use types.

Reviewing the role of habitat banking and tradable development rights in the conservation policy mix

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUI SANTOS ◽  
CHRISTOPH SCHRÖTER-SCHLAACK ◽  
PAULA ANTUNES ◽  
IRENE RING ◽  
PEDRO CLEMENTE
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Development Rights

SUMMARYHabitat banking and tradable development rights (TDR) have gained considerable currency as a way of achieving ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity and of reconciling nature conservation with economic development goals. This paper reviews the use of these instruments for biodiversity conservation and assesses their roles in the policy mix. The two instruments are compared in terms of effectiveness, cost effectiveness, social impact, institutional context and legal requirements. The role in the policy mix is discussed highlighting sequential relationships, as well as complementarities or synergies, redundancy and conflicts with other instruments, such as biodiversity offsets and land-use zoning.Habitat banking and TDR have the potential to contribute to biodiversity conservation objectives and attain cost-effective solutions with positive social impacts on local communities and landowners. They can also help to create a new mind-set more favourable to public-private cooperation in biodiversity conservation. At the same time, these policy instruments face a number of theoretical and implementation challenges, such as additionality and equivalence of offsets, endurance of land-use planning regulations, monitoring of offset performance, or time lags between restoration and resulting conservation benefits.A clear, enforceable regulatory approach is a prerequisite for the success of habitat banking and TDR. In return, these schemes provide powerful incentives for compliance with regulatory norms and ensure a more equitable allocation of the benefits and costs of land-use controls and conservation. Environmentally harmful subsidies in other policy sectors as well as alternative offset options, however, reduce the attractiveness and effectiveness of these instruments. Thus, the overall performance of habitat banking and TDR hinges on how they are integrated into the biodiversity conservation policy mix and fine-tuned with other sectoral policies.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE RESOURCES IN LAND USE PLANNING: EXPERIENCE FROM LANGKAWI GEOPARK

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Aziz Ali ◽  
Tanot Unjah
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Scenic Beauty ◽  
Paleozoic Rock ◽  
Geological Diversity

Being an oldest landmass with the most complete Paleozoic rock sequence Langkawi archipelago hosts the richest geological diversity and heritage resources in the country. As a popular tourist destination, the scenic beauty has attracted tourists to Langkawi without them realising that the beauty has been created by the islands’ rich geological heritage diversity. To date more than 90 geoheritage sites of highly significant scientific, aesthetic, social or recreational value have been identified. Some of these geoheritage sites have become popular tourist sites. To ensure the sustainability of the tourism industry Langkawi needs to have a comprehensive and practical conservation strategy and mechanism. Without a good conservation policy the geoheritage sites are constantly under threat and under stress due to the need of space for development. To ensure the sustainability of these natural resources it is timely to include geoheritage sites in future land use planning.

THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE RESOURCES IN LAND USE PLANNING: EXPERIENCE FROM LANGKAWI GEOPARK

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Aziz Ali ◽  
Tanot Unjah
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Scenic Beauty ◽  
Paleozoic Rock ◽  
Geological Diversity

Being an oldest landmass with the most complete Paleozoic rock sequence Langkawi archipelago hosts the richest geological diversity and heritage resources in the country. As a popular tourist destination, the scenic beauty has attracted tourists to Langkawi without them realising that the beauty has been created by the islands’ rich geological heritage diversity. To date more than 90 geoheritage sites of highly significant scientific, aesthetic, social or recreational value have been identified. Some of these geoheritage sites have become popular tourist sites. To ensure the sustainability of the tourism industry Langkawi needs to have a comprehensive and practical conservation strategy and mechanism. Without a good conservation policy the geoheritage sites are constantly under threat and under stress due to the need of space for development. To ensure the sustainability of these natural resources it is timely to include geoheritage sites in future land use planning.

scholarly journals Spatial Optimization for Land-use Allocation

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yao ◽  
Xiaoxiang Zhang ◽  
Alan T. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Optimization ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Land Use Allocation

Land-use allocation has long been an important area of research in regional science. Land-use patterns are fundamental to the functions of the biosphere, creating interactions that have substantial impacts on the environment. The spatial arrangement of land uses therefore has implications for activity and travel within a region. Balancing development, economic growth, social interaction, and the protection of the natural environment is at the heart of long-term sustainability. Since land-use patterns are spatially explicit in nature, planning and management necessarily must integrate geographical information system and spatial optimization in meaningful ways if efficiency goals and objectives are to be achieved. This article reviews spatial optimization approaches that have been relied upon to support land-use planning. Characteristics of sustainable land use, particularly compactness, contiguity, and compatibility, are discussed and how spatial optimization techniques have addressed these characteristics are detailed. In particular, objectives and constraints in spatial optimization approaches are examined.

A hybrid mathematical model for urban land-use planning in association with environmental–ecological consideration under uncertainty

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukui Tan ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Min Zhou ◽  
Yanan Li ◽  
Siliang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Constraint Violation ◽  
Allocation Model ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
System Benefit

Various uncertainties exist in most urban land-use allocation systems; however, they have not been considered in most traditional urban land-use allocation methods. In this study, an interval-probabilistic urban land-use allocation model is developed based on a hybrid interval-probabilistic programming method. The developed interval-probabilistic urban land-use allocation model can deal with uncertainties expressed as intervals and probability distributions; moreover, it can also help examine the reliability of satisfying (or risk of violating) system constraints under uncertainty; the interval-probabilistic urban land-use allocation model not only considers economic factors, but also involves environmental and ecological constraints, which can effectively reflect various interrelations among different aspects in the urban land-use system. The developed model is applied to a case of long-term land-use allocation planning in the city of Wuhan, China. Interval solutions associated with different risk levels of constraint violation are obtained. The desired system benefit from the land-use system will be between $ [1781.921, 2290.970] × 109 under the minimum violating probabilities, and in this condition, the optimized areas of industrial land, commercial land and landfill will be [35,739, 42,402] ha, [58,572, 62,450] ha, and [903, 1087] ha. Results provide the decision makers of Wuhan with desired land-use allocation patterns and environmental policies, which are related to a variety of trade-offs between system benefit and constraint-violation risk. Willingness to accept low benefit from land-use system will guarantee meeting the environmental protection objective. A strong desire to acquire high system benefit will run into the risk of violating environmental constraint.

scholarly journals GI-Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
Anja Wijffels ◽  
Jos Van Orshoven ◽  
Bart Muys ◽  
Dirk Cattrysse
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Temporal Database ◽  
Model Base ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Automated Support

To deal with the complexity of land use allocation in a spatio-temporally variable context, a generic framework for automated support to multi-objective land use planning is proposed. The framework is rooted in the discipline of land evaluation which is considered a go-between between land resources survey and land use planning. It draws on own experiences and on lessons learnt from literature. It consists of five integrated and interoperable components. The core three ones, the spatio-temporal database, the engine for data query, transformation and analysis and the user interface are adopted from geographical information systems (GIS). A ‘knowledge and model base’ component adds capability for assessing land performance over time. Finally, a multicriteria decision analysis component allows for identifying optimal land units and optimal land use options. The framework’s applicability and the limitations of geographical information technology (GI-Technology) to generate spatio-temporal decision support systems (stDSS) are illustrated with two cases: one in data rich and one in data poor conditions.

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13411
Author(s):  
Yao Lu ◽  
Min Zhou ◽  
Guoliang Ou ◽  
Zuo Zhang ◽  
Li He ◽  
...  
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.

Comparative Advantage in Land-Use Allocation under Regionalism

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean M Hanink ◽  
Robert G Cromley
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Generalized Assignment Problem ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Effective Integration

The Ricardian principle of comparative advantage is used frequently as a foundation for illustrating potential improvements in the allocation of production and trade flows among countries. Such improvements typically consist of increased economic efficiency in the form of lower aggregate production costs and greater welfare in the form of higher levels of aggregate output. The improvements are made possible by the effective integration of otherwise individual economies. This paper employs the principle of comparative advantage as the foundation for illustrating potential improvements in the allocation of land uses under a regional approach to land-use planning. It uses a generalized assignment problem within a geographical information system (GIS) to describe the efficiency benefits of integrating land-use plans among several districts.

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