scholarly journals Define–Investigate–Estimate–Map (DIEM) Framework for Modeling Habitat Threats

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11259
Author(s):  
Khaleel Muhammed ◽  
Aavudai Anandhi ◽  
Gang Chen ◽  
Kevin Poole
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Watershed Modeling ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Universal Method ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
As Species ◽  
Threat Level ◽  
Human Practices

As the human population increases, the landscape is altered to provide housing, food, and industry. Human activity poses a risk to the health of natural habitats that, in turn, affect biodiversity. Biodiversity is necessary for a functioning ecosystem, as species work synergistically to create a livable environment. It is, therefore, important to know how human practices and natural events threaten these habitats and the species living in them. A universal method of modeling habitat threats does not exist. This paper details the use of a literature review to formulate a new framework called Define–Investigate–Estimate–Map (DIEM). This framework is a process of defining threats, investigating an area to discover what threats are present, estimating the severity of those threats, and mapping the threats. Analysis of 62 studies was conducted to determine how different authors define and characterize threats in various contexts. The results of this analysis were then applied to a case study to evaluate the Choctawhatchee River and Bay Watershed. Results suggest that the most abundant threat in the watershed is agricultural development, and the most destructive threat is urban development. These two threats have the greatest impact on the total threat level of the watershed. Applying the DIEM framework demonstrates its helpfulness in regional analysis, watershed modeling, and land development planning.

A Development Plan for Semi-Arid Areas in Western Sudan

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Planning Problems

SUMMARYThis paper, concerned with agricultural development planning problems in the Sahelian and Sudanian (semi-desert and savanna) zones in Africa between 10 and 16° North, describes a plan for Darfur, Western Sudan. This aims to modernize a stagnant and primitive technology and out-dated land rights which, in the face of rapid population increase and climatic change, are reducing the long-term carrying capacity of the land. The development plan (H.T.S., 1974) has been based on a 2-year (1972–73) survey by a team of physical and social scientists, financed by the Overseas Development Administration of the United Kingdom and the Ministry of Agriculture in the Sudan.

Accessibility in Everyday Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Jonathan Levine ◽  
Joe Grengs ◽  
Louis A. Merlin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Transportation Projects ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
Measurement Approach ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Project Level

This chapter examines different methods to support accessibility-based analysis for both land-development and transportation projects to help forge a closer link between accessibility analysis and applied decision making in planning. Accessibility metrics vary in their measurement approach, purposes, and levels of complexity. Accessibility is normally reported in the form of a score or index to describe the ease of reaching destinations from a place, which allows analysts to compare accessibility from one place to another, or track changes in accessibility over time. The chapter then considers the foundational concepts of accessibility measurement and representation. It also demonstrates empirical application at the project level. Moving accessibility-based evaluation from the regional scenario to the project level involves more than applying regional tools to individual decisions, because project-level analysis is inherently different from a regional analysis.

scholarly journals Strategi Pembangunan Pertanian Berkelanjutan di Pedesaan Berbasis Citra Drone (Studi Kasus Desa Sukadamai Kabupaten Bogor)

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Ihsan Arham ◽  
Sofyan Sjaf ◽  
Dudung Darusman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Land Availability ◽  
Land Carrying Capacity

Most of the agricultural sector activities are in rural area. Rural and agricultural development requires accurate spatial information so that accuracy in sustainable development planning can be attained. This study was aimed to determine the strategy of sustainable agriculture development planning in a rural area. This research method used a spatial data approach acquiring village imagery produced using a drone. The actual land use analysis used ArcGIS software through a participatory digitization process. Analysis of land carrying capacity using the approach of land availability and land requirements. The results of the analysis became a reference for compiling the direction of planning for sustainable agricultural village development. Analysis of alternative program priorities using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. The study found that agricultural areas dominated land use in Sukadamai Village with an area of 112,942 ha (42,693%). Land carrying capacity in Sukadamai Village was in a deficit with a comparison ratio of land availability (SL) to land requirements (DL) of 0.22. The strategy of sustainable agricultural development that can be done is the innovative application of effective and efficient land intensification. The program prioritized the criteria of social justice and maximized the government's role in realizing development goals.

Constructing Locality: The Terroir Approach in West Africa

Africa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Bassett ◽  
Chantal Blanc-Pamard ◽  
Jean Boutrais
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Land Privatization ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
A Site ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Important Shift

AbstractThis article examines the origins and evolution of the terroir approach as an organizing idea in development planning in West Africa. We consider the evolving meaning of the terroir concept in three distinct periods: as a research approach crafted in a French geographical school; as a site for research-development programmes, and, most recently, as a tool for conservation planning, territorial restructuring, and land privatization. An important shift in the meaning of the terroir concept is apparent in its evolving uses. For the terroir school, the terroir came to represent the socio-natural heritage of a group in which its social organization and pattern of resource use became inscribed in the landscape. The concept took on new meaning in the late-1980s as an appropriate location for on-farm research by agricultural development planners. The terroir became both an alternative research site and a setting for mobilizing rural populations to adopt new land management and farming techniques. The meaning of the concept shifted again in the 1990s with the advent of the gestion des terroirs approach. In the hands of conservation and development planners, the terroir was conceived of as a scale of intervention for a host of government, aid donor, and NGO programmes. In summary, a significant change in the meaning of the concept has taken place from one in which the notion of local heritage was dominant to one that emphasizes territory and boundary clarification.

scholarly journals Prioritization of Watersheds across Mali Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS Techniques for Agricultural Development Planning

Water ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murali Gumma ◽  
Birhanu Birhanu ◽  
Irshad Mohammed ◽  
Ramadjita Tabo ◽  
Anthony Whitbread
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Gis Techniques

scholarly journals Research on Cultivation Ways of New-Type Professional Farmers under the Background of Rural Revitalization Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Shijie Chen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Revitalization ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
New Type

<p>Due to the focus on solving the issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and peasantry, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed a rural revitalization strategy. In this era, new-type professional farmers came into being. They helped the development of agriculture and accelerated the process of rural revitalization. However, there are still some obvious problems which urgently need to take corresponding improvement measures in the cultivation and development of new-type professional farmers. To solve these problems, it is required to set a premium on basic education in rural areas and promote advanced technology; cultivate correct professional values and improve the social status of farmers; adhere to the training model that combines theory with practice and enrich teaching methods; pay attention to the targeted training of talents at different levels and form reasonable teaching structures; coordinate agricultural development planning and develop regional characteristic agriculture.</p>

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