Environmental Management within the Framework of Land Use Planning along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Brachya ◽  
E Lerman ◽  
R Lerman ◽  
N Bukler ◽  
Y Nir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Resource Sensitivity ◽  
Intensity Of Development ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
River Mouths

A multi-disciplinary team was commissioned by the Environmental Protection Service to prepare a statutory land use plan for the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Suitability for tourist and recreation development was assessed on the basis of geological, vegetation and landscape surveys. Five levels of intensity of development were defined for beach activities and four levels for visitor activities and accommodation in the hinterland. The allocation of level of development for each site along the Mediterranean coastline was checked in relation to resource sensitivity. The plan includes regulations for the protection of natural and manmade resources, for maximum visitor capacity, for beach services and accommodation, for the location of offshore structures and for development at river mouths,

scholarly journals Land Cover Change in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria: Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Land Use Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evidence Enoguanbhor ◽  
Florian Gollnow ◽  
Jonas Nielsen ◽  
Tobia Lakes ◽  
Blake Walker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Land Cover ◽  
Land Use Plan

Rapid urban expansion is a significant contributor to land cover change and poses a challenge to environmental sustainability, particularly in less developed countries. Insufficient data about urban expansion hinders effective land use planning. Therefore, a high need to collect, process, and disseminate land cover data exists. This study focuses on urban land cover change detection using Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing methods to produce baseline information in support for land use planning. We applied a supervised classification of land cover of LANDSAT data from 1987, 2002, and 2017. We mapped land cover transitions from 1987 to 2017 and computed the net land cover change during this time. Finally, we analyzed the mismatches between the past and current urban land cover and land use plans and quantified the non-urban development area lost to urban/built-up. Our results indicated an increase in urban/built-up and bare land cover types, while vegetation land cover decreased. We observed mismatches between past/current land cover and the existing land use plan. By providing detailed insights into mismatches between the regional land use plan and unregulated urban expansion, this study provides important information for a critical debate on the role and effectiveness of land use planning for environmental sustainability and sustainable urban development, particularly in less developed countries.

The Environment and Planning of Alaska

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-728
Author(s):  
A J Catanese ◽  
J C Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Decision Mode ◽  
Consensus Decision ◽  
States History

This paper describes a planning effort that is unique in United States history. Notwithstanding US Constitutional constraints, a joint Federal-State effort attempted to plan for the State of Alaska's 375 million acres of land, following statehood in 1959. The study focuses on the seven-year life of the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission (FSLUPC) and the competing interests of resource development, environmental preservation, and subsistence life-styles. A consensus decision mode resulted in considerable success in resolving conflicts among competing interests, but failure in consolidating a constituency and developing a land-use plan. The FSLUPC closed its doors in 1979, and in 1980 Congress passed an Alaskan Wilderness Bill the effect of which is so large that it doubles American conservation lands.

scholarly journals Strategies to Enhance Adherence to Participatory Village Land use Plans in Ulanga District in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
M. N. Naiposha ◽  
E. F. Nzunda
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Land Use Plan

Land use plans have been considered as a solution to land use problems. Effectiveness of implementation of land use plan relies on a number of factors including strategies that are used to enhance adherence to the land use plan. For the study area, current and potential strategies to enhance adherence to land use plans had previously not been assessed. Thus this study assessed current and potential strategies used to enhance adherence to participatory village land use plans in Ulanga District, Tanzania. Data were collected through household survey of 120 respondents from two villages, key informants interviews, focus group discussions, field observation, review of guidelines for land use planning, village and use plans, district land use framework, books and journals. Information from household survey and village records were descriptively analysed to obtain frequencies and percentages. Information from key informants and focus groups was analysed by content analysis. Current strategies used included by-laws, boundary demarcation, zoning, community action plan, and conflict resolution. The current strategies were ineffectively implemented and enforced due to inadequate awareness, inadequate fines and penalties, funding limitations, weak governance and inefficient coordination and monitoring. Potential strategies that should be implemented include education, awareness raising, capacity building and benefit sharing.

scholarly journals KITAKIWI MASINAHIKANAN (OUR MAP)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joelle McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Far North ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Procedural Values ◽  
Crown Lands

Members of Nibinamik First Nation, an Anishinaabe community in the Far North of Ontario, are in the process of updating their land use plan. As part of this land use planning project, Nibinamik seeks an accompanying and informing map of their traditional territory. Through a partnership between Nibinamik and Ryerson University, we explored the substantive and procedural values informing the mapping, and by extension the land use planning, project. The findings are discussed in relation to the literature on Indigenous counter-mapping and in reference to the guiding provincial policy framework. Importantly, Nibinamik seeks an alternate process to that imposed by the province, while simultaneously seeking recognition by the province. In this way, Nibinamik resists the province’s claims to exclusive power over crown lands, and asserts claims to shared power over traditional territory. Key words: counter-mapping; Indigenous Planning; northern Ontario

scholarly journals Modeling the risks of marine submersion on the Saidia coastal- Cap de l'Eau (Northeast Morocco)

2021 ◽  
Vol 298 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Samhane Ramdani ◽  
Mostafa Oujidi ◽  
Najat Amarjouf ◽  
Hafssa Afif ◽  
Abdellah Azougay
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
2D Modeling ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Environmental Balance ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Coastal Strip

The coastline is an area of ecological and environmental balance between the continent and the sea. The coastline from Saidia to Cap de l'Eau, located on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, is the subject of this study. The goal of this work is to produce maps of the risk of marine submersion. The methodology followed consists of entering storm meteorological data and land use data into the Iber 2D software. In addition, we mapped the hazard as well as the vulnerability of this submersion. The results of this 2D modeling of the hazard have shown that the coastline of Saidia - Cap de l'Eau presents a high risk of marine submersion, and this by the water levels rises to more than 4 meters and overflow on a width of more than 20 meters towards the mainland. In addition, the coastal strip constitutes a zone of high vulnerability compared to the continent.

The Use of Performance Criteria in Developing Standard Methods for Land-Use Planning

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. M. Ale ◽  
G. M. H. Laheij ◽  
J. G. Post
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Population Distributions ◽  
Societal Risk ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Risk Limits ◽  
Uniform Population

Abstract The assessment and management of risk has been a matter of public and political interest for some decades. The growing industry and the growing number of industrial products and services and the associated transport of goods have presented more and more partly unfamiliar hazards with which industry itself, but also the population and governments have had to cope. The Netherlands is one of the countries that struggled most explicitly with this problem. In the Netherlands risk is controlled by setting quantitative performance standards for the industry and for the spatial planners. These standards are expressed in limiting values for individual and societal risk. The standards are used in the policy to reduce the number of people exposed to the effects of an accident. In principle, the societal risk for each new land-use plan should be re-calculated. Since this is proving increasingly cumbersome for planning agencies, several methods have been developed to determine the effects of new land-use plans on the societal risk. These methods give the uniform population density from a certain distance around the establishment at which the indicative limit for the societal risk is not exceeded. Correction factors are determined for non-uniform population distributions around the establishment, non-continuous residence times and alternative societal risk limits. Using these methods allows decision-making without the necessity of repeating quantified risk analyses for each alternative proposal.

scholarly journals Effects of Land Use-Land Cover Thematic Resolution on Environmental Evaluations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1232
Author(s):  
Raffaele Pelorosso ◽  
Ciro Apollonio ◽  
Duccio Rocchini ◽  
Andrea Petroselli
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Landscape Connectivity ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Thematic Resolution ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Landscape Units ◽  
The Impact

Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are a key input in environmental evaluations for the sustainable planning and management of socio-ecological systems. While the impact of map spatial resolution on environmental assessments has been evaluated by several studies, the effect of thematic resolution (the level of detail of LU/LC typologies) is discordant and still poorly investigated. In this paper, four scenarios of thematic resolutions, corresponding to the four levels of the CORINE classification scheme, have been compared in a real case study of landscape connectivity assessment, a major aspect for the biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision. The PANDORA model has been employed to investigate the effects of LULC thematic resolution on Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) at the scale of the whole system, landscape units, and single land cover patches, also in terms of ecosystem services. The results show different types of impacts on landscape connectivity due to the changed spatial pattern of the LULC classes across the four thematic resolution scenarios. Moreover, the main priority areas for conservation objectives and future sustainable urban expansion have been identified. Finally, several indications are given for supporting practitioners and researchers faced with thematic resolution issues in environmental assessment and land use planning.

Urban Planning to Minimize Environmental Impact

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Bammi ◽  
D Bammi ◽  
R Paton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Planning Model ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Dupage County

An optimizing land-use planning model (OPTPLAN) is used to minimize environmental impact. The development of the natural-resource objective function and natural-resource constraints is described. Application of the model to DuPage County, Illinois is shown. The model's output is transferred to maps and compared with a land-use plan obtained through conventional natural-resource methodology.

scholarly journals KITAKIWI MASINAHIKANAN (OUR MAP)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joelle McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Far North ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Procedural Values ◽  
Crown Lands

Members of Nibinamik First Nation, an Anishinaabe community in the Far North of Ontario, are in the process of updating their land use plan. As part of this land use planning project, Nibinamik seeks an accompanying and informing map of their traditional territory. Through a partnership between Nibinamik and Ryerson University, we explored the substantive and procedural values informing the mapping, and by extension the land use planning, project. The findings are discussed in relation to the literature on Indigenous counter-mapping and in reference to the guiding provincial policy framework. Importantly, Nibinamik seeks an alternate process to that imposed by the province, while simultaneously seeking recognition by the province. In this way, Nibinamik resists the province’s claims to exclusive power over crown lands, and asserts claims to shared power over traditional territory. Key words: counter-mapping; Indigenous Planning; northern Ontario

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