Linking Conservation and Land Use Planning: Using the State Wildlife Action Plans to Protect Wildlife from Urbanization

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Michalak ◽  
Jeff Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Action Plans

scholarly journals Potencial Pedoclimático do Estado da Paraíba para a Cultura do Algodão Herbáceo (Gossypium hirsutum) (Pedoclimatic potential of the Paraíba state to cultivation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum))

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2089
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto Megna Francisco ◽  
DJAIL SANTOS ◽  
EDUARDO RODRIGUES VIANA DE LIMA ◽  
ZIANY NEIVA BRANDÃO
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Gossypium Hirsutum ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Upland Cotton ◽  
The State ◽  
High Class ◽  
Area Increase ◽  
Very High

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar o potencial pedoclimático do Estado da Paraíba para a cultura agrícola do algodão herbáceo. Na obtenção dos mapas de potencial pedoclimático, as informações obtidas do potencial dos solos foram cruzadas com aquelas da aptidão climática considerando três cenários pluviométricos: anos chuvosos, anos regulares e anos secos. O cruzamento das informações foi realizado por meio de técnicas de geoprocessamento utilizando o software SPRING e obtendo-se os mapas do potencial pedoclimático. O resultado das interpretações foi classificado em quatro classes: Muito Alto, Alto, Médio, Baixo e Muito Baixo. Os resultados demonstraram que a variabilidade pedológica e climática do Estado da Paraíba tem influenciado o potencial pedoclimático do Estado para a cultura do algodão herbáceo, tendo sido observadas diferenças significativas na extensão territorial das classes e subclasses de potencial pedoclimático. A extensão do potencial pedoclimático Alto e Médio apresentou significativo aumento em relação aos cenários seco e regular, com maior percentual de ocorrência para o cenário pluviométrico chuvoso. Não houve dados para a classe de potencial pedoclimático Muito Alto e dessa forma a mesma não foi mapeada neste trabalho. A área da classe Alta aumenta conforme cresce o cenário pluviométrico. A classe Média do potencial pedoclimático é ampliada em área conforme aumenta a probabilidade de chuvas. Na classe Baixa de potencial pedoclimático a diferença na mudança foi pouco significativa. Entre as subclasses do potencial Muito Baixo, foi observado aumento da área de acordo com o aumento da probabilidade de ocorrência de chuvas no Estado.    A B S T R A C T The objective of this work was to evaluate the soil and climate potential for upland cotton in Paraiba state, Brazil. For obtaining pedoclimatic potential maps, the information obtained for soil potential were combined with that to climate ability considering three rainfall scenarios: wet years, dry years and regular years. Information crossing was carried out by techniques of geoprocessing using the SPRING software and maps of soil and climate potential were obtained. The interpretation results were classified into four pedoclimatic potential classes: Very High, High, Medium, Low and Very Low. The results showed that pedological and climate variability in Paraiba state have influenced the pedoclimatic potential of this state to the upland cotton, with significant differences observed in the territory for classes and subclasses of pedoclimatic potential. The extent of potential soil and climate High and Medium showed a significant increase over the dry and regular scenarios, with the highest percentage of occurrence for the rainy rainfall scenario. There was no data for the potential class Very High soil and climate and therefore the same has not been mapped in this work. High class area enlarges as the rainfall scenario increases. The mapped area for the Middle class showed enlargement with rainy probability increases. Little significant changes were observed for Low class of soil and climate potential. Among potential subclasses Very Low, were observed an area increase according rain probability was enlarging in the state. Keywords: Geotechnology, land use planning, pedological potential, rain probability, climate aptitude.   

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Adirondack Park ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
The People ◽  
One Year

This chapter introduces some of the people who played primary roles in the Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) founding. It includes the elite group of activists and policymakers who were early champions for the idea of regional land use planning; planners, lawyers, and naturalists who implemented the Land Use and Development Plan; activists who fought to abolish or weaken the plan; and public officials who had to find ways to turn it into a workable law. New York State spent twenty years struggling to write a master plan for the Adirondack Park before the APA was established. Activists had been calling for a master plan for twenty years before the state even started trying. The chapter further discusses the two produced plans, led by David Newhouse, each of them organized around a big map. One plan zoned the state land into progressively stricter classifications, culminating with wilderness. The other map rated each acre of the 3.6 million privately owned acres in terms of its suitability for development. Ultimately, the chapter assesses the aftermath of the postponement of the Land Use and Development Plan by one year and argues if the APA either saved or ruined the ecological and economic health of the park.

scholarly journals Current trends and tasks of training of land management specialists

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kosinsky ◽  
Mikhail Burov
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
Real Estate Valuation

In 2015-2016 the State University of Land Use Planning and land management faculties of higher educational institutions released the final mass enrollment of graduates who studied “engineer” qualification for five years. Starting from 2016-2017, bachelors and masters of land management began to leave the walls of the State University of Land Use Planning and land management departments of universities. Has the division into two parts - bachelor's and master's been justified? Basically, we can say that this is an international practice and we would not want to live separately from the international community, since we study foreigners from many countries of the world who want to receive education in a Western way; in addition, our students also study abroad. But, unlike the Western baccalaureate, we remain specializations. There are profiles in the undergraduate program: land administration, land management, real estate cadastre, urban cadastre, land valuation, real estate valuation, and so on, that is students receive professional knowledge. Mastership is designed to deepen them. But it is absolutely not necessary to choose undergraduate and graduate programs in the same direction, it can be changed. If a student is not satisfied with the direction or specialization chosen before, he can correct it by studying another mastership program. One undoubted positive consequence of Russia's accession to the Bologna process is the simultaneous assumption of international obligations to maintain the wide accessibility of higher education regardless of financial situation of young people. Europe seeks to provide broad social protection in this area, where Russia has been catastrophically losing ground in recent years. The United States, with all its wealth, has never tried to positively solve this problem and is not going to accept the Bologna rules, and they have enough compelling arguments for this. First of all, do we need a bachelor degree? How will a master match with a candidate of science? Today, the heads of land surveying firms and companies, sociologists, professors of universities as well as educational and scientific institutions are discussing this problem.

scholarly journals GIS Buildout Analysis and Urban Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150006
Author(s):  
Carlos J. L. BALSAS
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The Town

A buildout analysis is an important methodology in land-use planning. The GIS technicalities of doing a buildout analysis tend to be the purview of professionals with a background in geographical sciences. However, it is argued that planners ought to be able to conduct buildout analysis in order to develop a better understanding of how land-use patterns could change sustainably over time depending on a community’s regulatory environment and pace of development. A state buildout analysis is compared and contrasted with buildouts conducted for two local jurisdictions on the opposite ends of Massachusetts: the towns of Amherst and Georgetown. The town of Amherst’s computations identified lower values of developable and new commercial/industrial land and 1,878 more new dwelling units than the state-led planning initiative three years earlier. In the case of Georgetown, the UMass Amherst planning consultancy identified lower values of developable land and fewer new dwelling units and 3.5 million square feet more of new commercial/industrial land than the state-led analysis. A series of implications for teaching buildout analysis in Urban and Regional Planning studio courses is presented.

Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation on private land – human rights perspective 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katazyna Bogdzevic ◽  
Marius Kalinauskas
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
The State ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
European Convention ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Private Land

<p>Nature-based solutions (NBS) for flood mitigation lately are becoming more and more popular. However, comparing to traditional grey infrastructure, NBS require more land, often – privately owned. This is why the question of implementation of NBS on private land needs to be addressed more thoroughly. There are different ways how to implement the NBS on private land. Those ways can be divided into "sticks", "carrots" and "sermons". The last two refer to "soft" measures, like financial incentives, payments for ecosystem services, knowledge sharing, and partnership for NBS. Whereas, "sticks" refer to coercive measures, which imply "a command-and-control strategy" and any behaviours contradicting "sticks" can be considered unlawful. In other words, "sticks" are the measures that restrict land-use or even deprive the owners of their land. Expropriation, land-use restrictions, and pre-emption rights are the best-known examples of "sticks". The land-owners have little room for manoeuvre if the state decides to apply "sticks". However, the powers of the state are also limited. One of such limitations derive from international law, to be precise – from provisions related to human rights protection. Article 1 of the Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights grants protection for the property rights and prohibits the authorities to deprive owners of their possession unless the public interest justifies it. The state can also control the use of property only if this is required by general interest. The European Court of Human Rights in its case-law for several times addressed the issue of property restrictions and expropriation due to implementation of environmental laws and land-use planning laws. The Court elaborated on such issues as the notion of "public interest", proportionality and lawfulness of measures adopted by the state. Those considerations can also be relevant for the implementation of NBS on private land. </p>

ASSESSING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GAPS BETWEEN THE STATE AND LOCAL JURISDICTIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 263-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHENGHONG TANG
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Major Factors

State mandates and guidelines significantly influence local land use planning; however few studies have been conducted to empirically detect the gaps in sustainable environmental planning between the state and local jurisdictions. This paper analyses the California Governor's Environmental Goals and Policy Report (EGPR) and 116 local comprehensive land use plans to develop a set of measurable indicators to detect gaps in local planning efforts to incorporate state goals and policies. Descriptive results indicate that the local jurisdictions reached approximately half of the state's sustainable environmental planning goals. The major gaps existed in some region-wide, global-wide, long-term, cumulative, and strategically critical environmental elements. Regression results further highlight the major factors that significantly influenced local jurisdictions' environmental planning abilities. Six policy recommendations are provided to reduce these gaps.

Planning-Level Areawide Multimodal Level-of-Service Analysis: Performance Measures for Congestion Management

2003 ◽  
Vol 1858 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Guttenplan ◽  
Beverly Davis ◽  
Ruth Steiner ◽  
Demian Miller
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Congestion Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Multimodal Transportation

The state of Florida has been experiencing an explosion of growth, and it is one of the fastest growing states in the country. While the state has been in the forefront of growth management initiatives, the results have been less than satisfactory. The state recognized the need to integrate land use planning efforts with transportation planning efforts. Legislation was passed that allows the formation of multimodal transportation districts, which focus on appropriate land use mixes and densities that would enhance the use of transportation modes other than the automobile. There are several key elements in the evaluation of these districts, using both land use analysis and the recently adopted multimodal level-of-service performance measures. To validate these evaluation techniques, especially focusing on the level-of-service performance measures, several case studies were undertaken. The guidelines for the formation of a multimodal transportation district provide local governments with a template for enhancing existing and new development. These guidelines also provide a blueprint for sustainable growth and the promotion and development of livable communities through the integration of transportation, land use, and urban design.

scholarly journals New distribution records of Pteronura brasiliensis (Zimmerman, 1780) (Mammalia, Carnivora) in Roraima, northern Brazilian Amazonia

Check List ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1946
Author(s):  
Luciana Gosi Pacca ◽  
Lara Gomes Côrtes ◽  
Lívia De Almeida Rodrigues ◽  
Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
South America ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Pteronura Brasiliensis ◽  
New Distribution

A survey of the Giant Otter, Pteronura brasiliensis (Zimmerman, 1780), in the state of Roraima, northern Brazilian Amazonia, is presented. We include 52 new records, increasing the total geographic coordinate points for the species in this area by 360%. Additionally, this study reports the first occurrence of the P. brasiliensis in the lavrado region, a unique and endemic ecosystem of South America with high biodiversity, which claims for protection and adequate land use planning.

scholarly journals Place Remaking under Property Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Niucheshui, Singapore

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 2346-2365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieming Zhu ◽  
Loo-Lee Sim ◽  
Xuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
State And Market ◽  
The 1960S

From the perspective of institutional analysis, this paper evaluates the place-remaking process of Niucheshui in Singapore. It is found that the redevelopment of Niucheshui since the 1960s has been substantively shaped by the property rights regime over land and buildings. As property rights are defined by the state in the forms of statutory land-use planning, compulsory land acquisition, rent control, land leasing, and conservation of historical buildings, the free market for land redevelopment is reined in heavily by the state. The built form of Niucheshui before 1960 was by and large the product of many private individuals' and communities' initiatives. Those players have faded from the scene since the 1960s, and the redevelopment of Niucheshui is the result of interactions between the state and market forces, though public participation is practised in the land-use planning process. In view of the urban land market behaving and performing within a framework defined by institutions, and property rights being one of the most important institutions, we argue that, not warranted by rhetoric public participation, pluralism and diversity in the built environment are protected by a diverse structure of land property rights which should be incorporated into the place-remaking process.

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