Annotated bibliography of selected references on site design, environmental factors and regulations, and land use planning in mined land reclamation

Land-use planning is a strategy of appropriately managing the use of land resources. However, there would be numerous factors derived from nature, economics and society potentially affecting implementation of the land use planning. Therefore, the sustainable use of land resources can only be achieved through a combination of economic, social and environmental factors into land-use planning. The assessment of the environmental status coupled with environmental matrix methods and scoring methods allows us to pick out investigated factors having most negative impact on land use and land use planning in Mo Duc - Quang Ngai. Thereby, the current study was conducted to incorporate the economic, social and environmental factors as well as introduce a multiple criteria approach into implementation of land use planning in the district.

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Evaluating Potential Ground Subsidence Geo-Hazard of Xiamen Xiang’an New Airport on Reclaimed Land by SAR Interferometry

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12176991 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (17) ◽

pp. 6991 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Guanchen Zhuo ◽

Keren Dai ◽

Huina Huang ◽

Shengpeng Li ◽

Xianlin Shi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Land Reclamation ◽

Sar Interferometry ◽

Ground Subsidence ◽

Large Area ◽

Potential Threat ◽

Reclaimed Land ◽

The Future ◽

Dredger Fill

The land reclaimed from the seaside may have a long-term subsidence trend, which poses a potential geohazard in the future land use. Xiamen Xiang’an New Airport (XXNA) is built on reclaimed land since 2016. Based on the spaceborne Sentinel-1 data between January 2018 to April 2019 and the time series interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique, this paper analyzed the reclaimed land subsidence evolution at XXNA in this period. InSAR measurements show that XXNA is suffering from severe subsidence, mainly in three regions because of the earth and sand compacting. By analyzing the spatial subsidence characterizations of the main subsiding areas combined with historical land reclamation and future land use planning, we find the potential threat of subsidence to future land use. Correlation between subsidence and the period of reclamation was found, indicating that the consolidation and compression in dredger fill is the main cause of subsidence. By combining subsidence monitoring results with different land use types and adopting the Expectation (Ex) and Entropy (En) methods, we analyzed the key area with potential subsidence geo-hazard. This work shows that with SAR interferometry, it is possible to find the large area ground subsidence in the airport reclaimed area. The areas with potential subsidence geo-hazards are consistent with the deep reclaimed earth, which means high subsidence risk in the future.

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Integrating Ecosystem Services Valuation into Land Use Planning: Case of the Ukrainian Agricultural Landscapes

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12111465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 1465

Author(s):

Ihor Soloviy ◽

Roman Kuryltsiv ◽

Józef Hernik ◽

Nadiia Kryshenyk ◽

Taras Kuleshnyk

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Agricultural Landscape ◽

Land Reclamation ◽

Current System ◽

Agricultural Landscapes ◽

Baseline Scenario ◽

Land Protection ◽

Alternative Scenarios

Modern agricultural landscapes produce multiple ecosystem services. Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes have social, economic, and environmental value—providing a wide array of benefits to society. Absence of scientifically based and practically tested methodologies of identification, mapping, and evaluation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes hamper integration of its values in the current system of land use planning. The value of ecosystem services is calculated for the case study territory located within the administrative borders of Kolomak Territorial Community in Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region (Ukraine). The highest estimated value among non-market ecosystem services is carbon storage service, and among market services—food production. The baseline scenario of land use (business as usual) is compared with two alternative scenarios (Scenario 1. Land reclamation scenario; Scenario 2. Land protection and bioenergy production scenario). Designing of an integrated production system in the forest agro-landscape, which combines multiple ecosystem services, allows us to attain maximum results in terms of value. Amelioration of agricultural landscape through establishing a system of protective forest shelterbelts allows society to increase the total value of ecosystem services, and this is why it should be better integrated into land use planning and land management.

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