Residential Land Uses

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Keyword(s):  
Land Uses ◽  
Residential Land

scholarly journals The Effect of Land Uses on Soil Erodibility (Index) and Soil Loss of the Keana Geological Sediments of Parts of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
M. G. Abubakar ◽  
M. O. Udochukwu ◽  
O. S. Enokela
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sandy Loam ◽  
Soil Analysis ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Soil Erodibility ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Modified Clay

The effect of land uses on soil erodibility and soil loss of the Keana geological sediments of parts of Nasarawa State, Nigeria was investigated in this study. Geographic positioning system (GPS) was used to identify three land uses (agricultural, forested, and residential). Soil samples were collected from top soils at 0-30 cm depth using core sampler from 1 ha of each land use in 8 settlement communities (16 locations). Standard laboratory methods for soil analysis were followed for determination of Dispersion ratio, Erosion ration, Clay ratio and Modified clay ratio. Linear regression and correlation were used to determine the logical relationship between the erodibility index and corresponding soil loss. The soils from the study area were classified as sandy loam and sandy clay loam with high density, high permeability and porosity making them less vulnerable to shear stress. Dispersion ration (DR) modified clay ratio (MCR), Clay ratio (CR) and Erosion ratio (ER) where high, which suggests that soils from the study area are vulnerable to erosion at various degree of susceptibility.  Mean value of erodibility factor (K) and predicted soil loss of 0.0492, 0.0460 and 0.0357; 7.77, 7.20 and 5.48 tonnes/hectare/year  for agricultural, forested, and residential  lands respectively. The findings suggest that land uses influence the soil erodibility in the formation is in this order residential land > agricultural land > forested land use. The erosion class is ‘very low’ for forested (soils in this class have very slight to no erosion potential), ‘low’ (soil losses will occur) for agricultural and residential land uses respectively. These findings suggest that soil erodibility has been significantly influence by land use change in Keana geological sediment.

scholarly journals Development and landscaping choices differentiate heterogenous tree and shrub communities on office developments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Vegetation Communities ◽  
Explained Variation ◽  
Socio Economic Variables ◽  
Human Actors

In urban ecosystems, woody vegetation communities and the ecosystem functions and habitat they provide are largely controlled by humans. These communities are assembled during development, landscaping, and maintenance processes according to decisions made by human actors. While vegetation communities on residential land uses are increasingly well studied, these efforts have generally not extended to other and uses, including commercial land uses; we thus know little about the vegetation communities on these land uses and how they are assembled. To fill this gap, I surveyed tree and shrub communities on office developments located in Redmond and Bellevue, Washington, USA, and explored whether aggregated and parcel scale socio-economic variables or variables describing the outcome of development and landscaping actions better explained variation in vegetation communities. I found that both tree and shrub communities are heterogenous, with distinct groups of sites characterized by native or ornamental vegetation. The outcome of actors’ decision making also explains more variation than aggregated or parcel scale socio-economic variables found significant on residential property. The observed heterogeneity in vegetation communities suggests that different ecosystem functions and habitat quantity and quality are provided on office developments; better provision of these functions is possible using currently existing developments as models. Further, the heterogeneity and observed differences in variable importance between office developments and residential land uses suggests that future urban ecology research must more carefully consider sampling design and that models of the urban ecosystem must account for different decision pathways on land uses. Going forward, research should examine other commercial land uses, commercial land use in additional ecotypes, and decision pathways followed by actors on commercial land uses.

scholarly journals Development and landscaping choices differentiate heterogenous tree and shrub communities on office developments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Vegetation Communities ◽  
Explained Variation ◽  
Socio Economic Variables ◽  
Human Actors

In urban ecosystems, woody vegetation communities and the ecosystem functions and habitat they provide are largely controlled by humans. These communities are assembled during development, landscaping, and maintenance processes according to decisions made by human actors. While vegetation communities on residential land uses are increasingly well studied, these efforts have generally not extended to other and uses, including commercial land uses; we thus know little about the vegetation communities on these land uses and how they are assembled. To fill this gap, I surveyed tree and shrub communities on office developments located in Redmond and Bellevue, Washington, USA, and explored whether aggregated and parcel scale socio-economic variables or variables describing the outcome of development and landscaping actions better explained variation in vegetation communities. I found that both tree and shrub communities are heterogenous, with distinct groups of sites characterized by native or ornamental vegetation. The outcome of actors’ decision making also explains more variation than aggregated or parcel scale socio-economic variables found significant on residential property. The observed heterogeneity in vegetation communities suggests that different ecosystem functions and habitat quantity and quality are provided on office developments; better provision of these functions is possible using currently existing developments as models. Further, the heterogeneity and observed differences in variable importance between office developments and residential land uses suggests that future urban ecology research must more carefully consider sampling design and that models of the urban ecosystem must account for different decision pathways on land uses. Going forward, research should examine other commercial land uses, commercial land use in additional ecotypes, and decision pathways followed by actors on commercial land uses.

scholarly journals Arable and forest land user rent in a peri-urban district, Ghana

GeoJournal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 1621-1633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divine Odame Appiah ◽  
Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo ◽  
Gabriel Eshun
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Residential Land

Abstract Land-use policies meant to mitigate deforestation activities in Ghana will have to consider the heterogeneity of the drivers of arable and forest land degradation. This would help avoid the one-size fits all approach to solving this problem. The urgency for this realisation is premised on the recent increasing monetary incentive to convert arable and forest land to other land uses in peri-urban Ghana. This study hypothesised that there is no significant relationship between land rent and the conversion probability from arable and forest land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses in Bosomtwe, a peri-urban district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Four-hundred and one usufruct or land-owning households and individual landowners participated through a three-stage sampling procedure. The results indicated a significant relationship between higher land rent and conversion probability from arable land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses. Specifically, receiving land rent above GH¢400 (OR = 1.979) predicted the outcome variable in all three models. Moreover, being a female (OR = 0.612), ageing: 56 and 65 (OR = 2.158) and 76 and above (OR = 11.781), traders/food vendors (OR = 0.423) and widows (OR = 2.050) had some odds of predicting the outcome variable. The study recommends a reformation of government land use conversion policies and decisions in collaboration with landowners, to include parameters which assess the effect and benefits of land conversion decisions on biodiversity before leasing out land rights.

scholarly journals GEO-INFORMATIC APPLICATION IN ANOMALIES ASSESSMENT IN THE MASTER PLAN OF IDAH TOWN, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-576
Author(s):  
S. Ishaya ◽  
Umoru Yunusa Omika
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Residential Land Use ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Land Use Development ◽  
Urban Master Plan

Abstract Nigerian urban environments are characterized by uncontrolled organic and consciously created urban settlements driven by a host of factors. This study used geo-informatic technology to assess the anomalies in the Master Plan of Idah town between 2005 and 2015. The Master Plan of Idah town and high resolution IKONOS images were acquired to provide data for the study while geo-informatic technology was use in the data analysis. The results show that in 2005 residential land use exceeded the expected area in the Master Plan by 1,474,270.6 m2, commercial land use is not accordingly developed having an area of 3,290 m2 encroached upon, that of industrial is encroached upon by 569,766.8 m2, educational is encroached upon by 769,766.8 m2, recreational is encroached upon by 1,521 m2, health is encroached upon by 62,802 m2, religious is encroached upon by 8,026 m2 while government and civic land is encroached upon by 9,265 m2, and transport is encroached upon by 50,333 m2. The study further revealed that the anomalies in the urban Master Plan of Idah town advanced in 2015 with the residential land use exceeded the expected land area designated for it in 2005 by 8,142,704.7 m2 while other land uses that were not fully developed were also encroached upon. Despite the detailed master plan was prepared for Idah town covering the period 1974 to 2005 the implementation is absolutely void. The study recommended that, the Master Plan should be urgently renew to avoid further land use development resulting in more anomalies. 

scholarly journals Measuring Pedestrian Level of Stress in Urban Environments: Naturalistic Walking Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110101
Author(s):  
Seth LaJeunesse ◽  
Paul Ryus ◽  
Wesley Kumfer ◽  
Sirisha Kothuri ◽  
Krista Nordback
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Arterial Streets ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Safety Countermeasures ◽  
The Impact

Walking is the most basic and sustainable mode of transportation, and many jurisdictions would like to see increased walking rates as a way of reducing congestion and emission levels and improving public health. In the United States, walking trips account for 10.5% of all trips undertaken. To increase this rate, additional research on what makes people feel more comfortable while walking is needed. Research on pedestrian quality of service (QOS) has sought to quantify the performance of the pedestrian facilities from a pedestrian’s perspective. However, the impact of pedestrian safety countermeasures on pedestrian QOS for roadway crossings is largely unknown. The objective of this study is to discern pedestrian QOS based on physiological measurements of pedestrians performing normal walking activities in different traffic contexts. The naturalistic walking study described in this paper recruited 15 pedestrians and asked each to wear an instrumented wristband and GPS recorder on all walking trips for one week. Surprisingly, the findings from the study showed no correlation between participants’ stress levels and individual crossing locations. Instead, stress was associated with roadway conditions. Higher levels of stress were generally associated with walking in proximity to collector and arterial streets and in areas with industrial and mixed (e.g., offices, retail, residential) land uses. Stress levels were tempered in lower-density residential land uses, as well as in forest, park, and university campus environments. The outcomes from this study can inform how planners design urban environments that reduce pedestrian stress levels to promote walkability.

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