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 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 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 AIR POLLUTION-LAND USE PLANNING PROJECT. Phase I. Final Report: July 1971.

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Kennedy ◽  
A.S. Cohen ◽  
E.J. Croke ◽  
K.G. Croke ◽  
J. Stork ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Phase I ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Planning Project

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 Opportunities and Limitations for Achieving Land Degradation-Neutrality through the Current Land-Use Policy Framework in Kenya

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gichenje ◽  
Muñoz-Rojas ◽  
Pinto-Correia
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Data Collection Strategy ◽  
Planning Processes

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) land degradation neutrality (LDN) scientific conceptual framework underscores that LDN planning and implementation should be integrated into existing planning processes and supported by an enabling policy environment. Land-use planning, which requires the integration of different policy goals across various sectors concerned with land-use, can be an effective mechanism through which decisions with respect to LDN can be coordinated. Using Kenya as a case study, we examined current policy instruments that directly or indirectly impact on the use of land in a rural context, to assess their potential to implement LDN objectives. The qualitative content analysis of these instruments indicated that they are rich with specific legal provisions and measures to address LDN, and that there are a number of relevant institutions and structures across governance levels. However, the main shortcoming is the disjointed approach that is scattered across policy areas. Key policy improvements needed to support effective implementation of LDN include: a national soil policy on the management and protection of soil and land; a systematic and coordinated data collection strategy on soils; mobilisation of adequate and sustained financial resources; streamlined responsibilities, and governance structures across national, regional and county levels.

Reconciliation and Indigenous resurgence in the Ontario Far North and Mushkegowuk Cree land use planning processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442095765
Author(s):  
Ryan Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Far North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Regional Process

The introduction of Ontario’s Far North Initiative in 2008 and resulting Far North Act (2010) set in motion efforts to create land use plans in the northern regions of the Canadian province. Ontario’s approach to reconciling Aboriginal and treaty rights with provincial planning was through a community-based land use planning process, to which Mushkegowuk Council responded with a regional process based on the Omushkegowuk nation. The paper argues that the goals and approach of Mushkegowuk Council were reflective of indigenous resurgence principles, to which Ontario’s community-based planning objectives were a significant obstacle. The paper will closely examine the challenges Mushkegowuk Council faced in their attempt to assert an alternative to Ontario’s Far North planning, and the implications for Mushkegowuk Council and other indigenous communities and organizations involved in land use planning. The paper will conclude with a discussion of how the case study exemplifies the broader difficulties of achieving indigenous driven planning as resurgence necessarily confronts the institutions and ambitions of Settler governments.

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