scholarly journals Integrating Ecology into Land Planning and Development: Between Disillusionment and Hope, Questioning the Relevance and Implementation of the Mitigation Hierarchy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12726
Author(s):  
Hélène Barbé ◽  
Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Idea ◽  
International Level ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Public Action ◽  
No Net Loss ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mitigation Hierarchy

Scientific research on the mitigation hierarchy has steadily increased over the past few years at the international level. While some seek to improve the application of this public action instrument, others point out its shortcomings and risks. This opinion paper—which focuses on the French context—does not provide an exhaustive overview of existing research but instead targets specific issues considered to be a “priority”. We mainly investigate the relevance and implementation of the mitigation hierarchy, especially from an ecological point of view. Part of this paper thus questions the very principle of biodiversity offsetting (BO)—the last resort of the mitigation hierarchy that brings together numerous controversies—and the adequacy of the mitigation hierarchy with the objective of no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. The general idea underlying this paper is to show how the mitigation hierarchy has been built and based on what values (mainly economic and legal, which leads us to conclude about the lack of ecology in the policy itself). In doing so, we provide a few perspectives as to what should be done to (better) integrate ecology into land use planning and development.

scholarly journals Land Use Projections Under Alternative Policies: A Transition Matrix Approach

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Lindsay ◽  
Daniel L. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
Insight Into

As a result of accelerated growth during the past decade, land use change over time and its accompanying problems represents a policy area germane to New Hampshire. Accurate projections of the future pattern of land use would be helpful to decision makers responsible for land use policy. Such projections could assist policy makers either directly in formulating land use plans or indirectly in justifying the need (or lack of need) for overt land use planning. Future projections, based upon various alternative land use policy scenarios, will increase the quantitative supply of information to decision makers in a two-fold manner. First, such estimates provide an insight into the current trend in land use mix and, secondly, give an overview of what impacts various policies directly have upon land use change.

scholarly journals Reforestation in Algeria: History, current practice and future perspectives

REFORESTA ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Saifi Merdas ◽  
Tewfik Mostephaoui ◽  
Mohamed Belhamra
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Future Projection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Considerable Degradation

Reforestation in Algeria has been recognized as a priority in different programs for the development and enhancement of forest heritage. Degradation factors of forest and soil contribute significantly to the decline in land values. The Algerian forests in the past, during the colonial period suffered considerable degradation. The degraded forest heritage has been undertaken with serious programs since independence. Several programs for the development of the forest sector through reforestation have been carried out. Unfortunately, the achievements were still below expectations. The launch of the National Reforestation Plan in 2000 has given the forestry sector a new lease of life with a vision that incorporates the productive aspect of reforestation, the industrial aspect, and the recreational aspect. Before the end of the NRP timeline, significant reforestation projects are completed. In a future projection, reforestation is integrated into the land use planning within the framework of the National Plan of Land Use Planning.

A Practical and Effective Solution to Earthquake (EQ) Catastrophe

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Modulus Of Elasticity ◽  
Saturated Soil ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soil Units

About 50-year direct observation indicated that any civil structure founded in/on rock do not get damage from earthquakes without tsunami effect. The main reason behind this is that the modulus of elasticity of saturated rocks is million times greater than that of saturated soil units. Furthermore, all saturated soil units are susceptible to liquefaction at varying degrees. Based on the past observations, none of the structures founded in/on rocky ground, has been affected from the recent destructive earthquakes studied by the authors in/and abroad. The studied earthquake cases highlighted again that the civil structures in/on rocky grounds, even adjacent to the epicenter, have not been affected from shaking of destructive earthquakes. In Turkey, the land needed for housing is one hundredth of the country. However, 57% is proper for housing. The remaining 43% consists mainly of forest, restricted zones, rugged terrains, and soil land which bears essentially plains and very locally landslides. Thus, earthquake disasters could be alleviated by implementing practical land use planning.

Archaeology’s Potential to Contribute to Pools of Agronomic Knowledge: A Case of Applied Agro-Archaeology in the Bolivian Yungas

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Isendahl ◽  
Walter Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Historical Ecology ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Applied Archaeology ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

Over the last two decades the concept of applied archaeology has been used increasingly to refer to how archaeology can contribute more broadly to society at large. Depending on the intellectual and geographical context there are many different ways that applied archaeology is understood. One important set of approaches builds on the standard definition of applied science as the application of scientific knowledge in creative problem-solving. Many archaeologists find that evidence which sheds light on resource exploitation strategies in the past is particularly rewarding in this regard, arguing that the insights gained from archaeological research can guide land use planning and resource management and make a positive impact on local livelihoods for people today and in the future (Costanza et al. 2007a; Hayashida 2005). This kind of applied archaeology is usually associated with rural livelihood development, but there is also an emerging applied archaeology of land use planning in predominantly urban sectors (Smith 2010). Some of the most prolific projects of applied agro-archaeology for rural development are those engaging in rejuvenating prehistoric agricultural features that have fallen into disuse or are being mismanaged. Groundbreaking applied agro-archaeology in the Andean region demonstrates considerable advances in this field, reconstructing abandoned raised fields, irrigation canals, and cultivation terraces in order to understand pre-Hispanic agricultural systems and long-term land-use dynamics and to re-apply ancient technologies for contemporary use (Chepstow-Lusty and Winfield 2000; Erickson 1985, 1994, 1998; Kendall 1997b, 2005, Chapter 9 this volume). The Andes are exceptionally rich in archaeological remains of pre-Hispanic agriculture and demonstrate considerable diversity in peoples’ approaches in the past in addressing the many different managerial issues associated with sustaining a farming livelihood in these environments (Denevan 2001; Donkin 1979). Linking the broad scope of applied agro-archaeology to the theoretical framework of historical ecology (Balée 1998, 2006; Balée and Erickson 2006; Crumley 1994, 2000, 2007), the motive of this contribution is to discuss some of the problems and opportunities facing an on-going applied agro-archaeological project in the Yungas of the Bolivian Andes (Isendahl 2008).

scholarly journals Motives for Outdoor Recreation

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic O. Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Surveys And Questionnaires ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Future Demand

More accurate prediction of future demand (or needs) for land for outdoor recreational activities would significantly improve land use planning. Unfortunately, prediction of demand (or projected use) is difficult. Most standard predicting measures have little or questionable relevance to outdoor recreation. Straightline projections of past outdoor activities are of limited use as technology, income, leisure time, mobility, and habits are changing so fast that it is doubtful if the past may be used to predict the future. In fact, all methods of predicting (or projecting) future demand (or needs) on the basis of past trends are inoperative in periods when there is rapid change in all the components influencing the trend, as well as in life styles. Surveys and questionnaires are of some use, but their value is limited by the propensity of respondents to give answers which they think are expected and the fact that they cannot appraise their future attitude towards activities with which they are now unfamiliar.

scholarly journals Folk landscape architecture as a significant value of Czech landscape

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
J. Mareček
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Customary Practices

In the past the image of Czech countryside was created by agricultural and social activities of the rural population in a significant manner. These activities related to natural elements and to the creation of landscape in a wider sense can be described as folk landscape architecture. Its object is mainly the spatial arrangement and assortment composition of vegetation and its functionality in villages and in their landscape environment. This study defines these activities as time limited regional (local) customary practices of agricultural and cultural and social character, reflected especially in the spatial arrangement and assortment composition of vegetation elements. Vegetation and other natural elements are evaluated as functional singularities and as functional systems in relation to particular structures, type of village pattern and state of the surrounding landscape. Besides the methodical categorisation of evaluated objects principles for their use in different forms of land-use planning are defined. A significant result of this study is the definition of landscape architecture as a phenomenon of the rural population lifestyle in which not only the past but also the future of rural landscape is reflected.

Non-Cooperative Game Between Governments and Landlord in Land Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 605-610
Author(s):  
Xin He ◽  
Chun Hui Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Equilibrium Strategies ◽  
Land User

The game between central government local government and land user were structured and analyzed. The aim is to explore the equilibrium strategies between policy maker, executor and target groups in the process of policy making and implementing in land planning. The reasonable planning and approval system should be established to solve the current problems in land use, the overall interests of the regions should be considered from the perspective land use planning.

scholarly journals POWERS OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITY IN REGULATING LAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROL: WHITHER CONTROL

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainul Jaria Maidin ◽  
Bashiran Begum Mobarak Ali
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Development Control ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
The Town ◽  
Control Regime ◽  
Country Planning ◽  
Discretionary Powers

Land use planning in Malaysia as regulated by the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 ("Act 172") vests in the local authorities' wide powers and responsibility for managing and carrying on the daily adininistration of land use planning decision making and developrnent control regime. This article examines the powers of the local authority in regulating land planning and development control and the power of the courts in exercising control over the exercise of the discretionary powers of the local authority.

scholarly journals CORAL RESEARCH IN THE INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO, THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Maya Wijsman-Best
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Coral Species ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Sunda Shelf ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Rich

In the past, several big expeditions crossed the Indonesian waters. Coral reefs and their amazing structures and inhabitants were always amongst their special interest. Geomorphological reef theories concerning the Sunda shelf in the Pleistocene period and the barrier reefs in the archipelago have been formulated during the first forty years of the present century. Two major areas of research are discussed i.e. the Bay of Jakarta with emphasis on structure and history of one of two coral islands, Nyamuk and Sakit, and the Togian area in Celebes. The rich tertiary coral reefs, east of the Pleistocene Sunda shelf around Celebes, are treated at the hand of the studies of the geologist, J.H.F. UMBGROVE. This author came across several coral reef problems which are still of present day interest e.g. the diversity and variability of the coral species as a result of the complex ecosystem. Two examples are mentioned to give a general idea of the questions arising in different coral species. Nowadays these problems are normally approached from the geological, physiological, ecological or taxonomic point of view. Even so, in the future many field descriptions will have to be carried out along with zoogeographical work in the main centres of taxonomy, before the species of major influence on the structure of the coral reefs can even merely'be listed.

scholarly journals Agricultural Land Transition in the “Groundnut Basin” of Senegal: 2009 to 2018

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 996
Author(s):  
Bonoua Faye ◽  
Guoming Du
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dynamic Index ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
Agricultural Land Management ◽  
The Impact

The study aims to reveal the transition features of agricultural land use in the Groundnut Basin of Senegal from 2009 to 2018, especially the impact of urbanization on agricultural land and the viewpoint of farmland spatiotemporal evolution. Integrated data of time series MCD12Q1 land-use images of 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018 were used to provide a land transition in agricultural and urban areas through the synergistic methodology. Socio-economic data was also used to serve as a basis for the argument. The results highlight that: (1) Agricultural land increased by 14.53%, with a dynamic index of 1.45 from 2009–2018. (2) Over the same period, urbanization increased by 2.80%, with a dynamic index of 0.28. (3) In different regions, the transition of agricultural land in Kaffrine is most intense (expansion rate: 22.80%). The same situation of urbanization happened in Thiès Region with a value of 7.94%. Except for Thiès, agricultural land in other regions has not yet been subject to major pressure due to urbanization. Overall, the farming system in Groundnut Basin is an extensive model, the recommendations from the point of view of land-use planning and land law are necessary to ensure efficient agricultural land management in the area.

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