scholarly journals Geological Resource Planning and Environmental Impact Assessments Based on GIS

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 906
Author(s):  
Yun Xie ◽  
Binggeng Xie ◽  
Ziwei Wang ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Gupta ◽  
Mohammed Baz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Development Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rural Construction

The purpose is to study the geological resource planning and environmental impact assessments based on the geographic information system (GIS). In this study, the land resources of Yinan County in southeastern Shandong Province are taken as the research object. Based on a GIS, the current situation of land resource development is analyzed, land resource planning is carried out, and environmental impact mitigation measures are evaluated and analyzed through the environmental impact. The results obtained depict the distribution of cultivated land; the development area is 1617.31 hm2, of which 577.32 hm2 is cultivated land, 30.43 hm2 is garden land, 399.66 hm2 is forest land, 40.87 hm2 is urban and rural construction land, 10.11 hm2 is traffic water conservancy and other construction land, and 558.92 hm2 is natural reserve land. In the layout of the construction land, the development area is 841.94 hm2, of which 175.44 hm2 is cultivated land, 47.88 hm2 is garden land, 100.54 hm2 is forest land, 0.1 hm2 is other agricultural land, 90.45 hm2 is urban and rural construction land, 3.66 hm2 is traffic water conservancy and other construction land, 11.33 hm2 is water area, and 412.54 hm2 is natural reserve land. The impact of the implementation of planning on most indicators is positive and beneficial, while the impact of negative indicators is relatively small. It is revealed that the implementation of the plan has little impact on most of the ecological environment indicators. Construction and cultivated land development further improve the level of urbanization. In the process of planning implementation, corresponding measures should be taken to slow down or eliminate the negative development of the ecological environment.

Study on the Nonradioactive Environmental Impact Assessments for Chinese Nuclear Power Plants

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu Wei ◽  
Hongbin Ma ◽  
Xiaowei Xiong ◽  
Duanjie Yang ◽  
Zhaorong Shang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
Environment Impact Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In China, the radioactive environmental impact assessment (EIA) for nuclear power plants (NPPs) had been carried out in detail due to the specific characteristic of radiation and the social universal attention. However, the nonradioactive environment impact assessment for NPP doesn’t get enough attention. This should be improved, since the operation of NPPs could cause some serious nonradioactive environment impacts. Based on the investigation of EIA for American NPPs, the following suggestions were put forward for Chinese EIA: (1) the laws and regulations in China need to be revised for the EIA of NPPs; (2) the statistics of chemicals or biocides used in the operation of NPPs and their discharged concentration need to be tested; (3) the impact assessments of nonradioactive gas emissions as well as hazardous wastes need to be carried out to meet the national requirements; and (4) the monitoring of nonradioactive waste also needs to be carried out for NPPs to obtain the basic data.

scholarly journals Correlation Studies between Land Cover Change and Baidu Index: A Case Study of Hubei Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqing Zhao ◽  
Rendong Li ◽  
Mingquan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
The Impact

Current land cover research focuses primarily on spatial changes in land cover and the driving forces behind these changes. Among such forces is the influence of policy, which has proven difficult to measure, and no quantitative research has been conducted. On the basis of previous studies, we took Hubei Province as the research area, using remote sensing (RS) images to extract land cover change data using a single land use dynamic degree and a comprehensive land use dynamic degree to study land cover changes from 2000 to 2015. Then, after introducing the Baidu Index (BDI), we explored its relationship with land cover change and built a tool to quantitatively measure the impact of changes in land cover. The research shows that the key search terms in the BDI are ‘cultivated land occupation tax’ and ‘construction land planning permit’, which are closely related to changes in cultivated land and construction land, respectively. Cultivated land and construction land in all regions of Hubei Province are affected by policy measures with the effects of policy decreasing the greater the distance from Wuhan, while Wuhan is the least affected region.

Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessments Between Spain and Portugal

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Vicente ◽  
Teresa Fidélis ◽  
Gonzalo Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
The Impact

Since 2000, the Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (TEIA) process in the Iberian context has undergone significant development due to new circumstances that came into play at the bilateral and European levels: (i) the adoption of a collaborative TEIA Protocol between Spain and Portugal in 2008; and (ii) the increasing number of cross-border projects supported by European Union funds. Despite these developments, the impact of this bilateral regulation on public participation, the cornerstone of any Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), has not yet been fully examined. Drawing from specific literature focusing on the involvement of the public as the basis of effective improvement of the TEIA, this paper critically analyses if the lates transboundary provision has encouraged public participation in this context. Although the analysis of the TEIA enforcement revealed a considerable increase in the number of consultations between the neighbouring states compared to the previous situation, public involvement has not increased. Based on these findings, this paper presents a set of recommendations to more effectively involve the public in transboundary consultations.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Farmer’s Decision-Making Behavior on Rural Construction Land Transformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuesong Sun ◽  
Zaisheng Zhang ◽  
Yiye Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Land Transformation ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Decision Making Behavior ◽  
The City ◽  
Rural Construction

In order to protect cultivated land and balance farmers’ needs and shortage of land, the Chinese government introduced policies to rearrange land use in rural areas. However, many problems, such as unused rural construction land and illegally occupied land, have occurred through implementing land use policies. Rural construction land transformation has been promoted to solve these problems. This transformation was designed to let farmers voluntarily transforming their idle rural construction land. Then, local government could rearrange village layout for developing cultivation, industry and green space. Therefore, in order to analyze the factors that influenced farmers’ decision-making behavior in rural construction land transformation, household surveys were conducted in four typical villages in Jizhou District. After using the Probit model to analyze the data, the results indicated that the willingness to settle in the city, the mode of housing resettlement, the mode of compensation, the rationality of the measurement standards, and the annual total household income positively affected the willingness of farmers to transform their rural construction land. The strong willingness to settle in the city dominated the other factors. Moreover, the age and amount of construction land, the method of construction land acquisition, and the amount of cultivated land negatively affected the decision-making behavior during the transformation of rural construction land. Based on the influencing factors, policy suggestions are proposed from the perspectives of establishing an orderly transformation mechanism, implementing priority transformation, and providing compensation for transforming rural construction land.

scholarly journals Occupation of Cultivated Land for Urban–Rural Expansion in China: Evidence from National Land Survey 1996–2006

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1378
Author(s):  
Yangbing Miao ◽  
Jiajie Liu ◽  
Raymond Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Rural Construction

Construction land expansion often occurs on cultivated land in developing countries during rapid urbanization and industrialization. Understanding its characteristics and driving mechanisms is of great significance for land-use policy and sustainable development. This paper depicted the spatio-temporal patterns of China’s urban–rural expansion and its occupation of cultivated land based on national land survey data from 1996 to 2006. It further explored the influencing mechanism of cultivated land occupation for urban–rural construction land. The results showed that the establishment and expansion of various economic development zones contribute to more than half of the occupation of cultivated land while the expansion of cities and towns is relatively slower, and their sources of construction land are more diverse. The empirical results showed that (1) economic growth and investment play key roles in shaping the spatio-temporal patterns of the occupation of cultivated land for urban–rural construction land, and (2) the mechanisms of cultivated land occupation in different stages of regional development are different. In particular, the establishment of national economic development zones is conducive to the intensive use of construction land and the protection of cultivated land in inland regions, whereas provincial economic development zones have led to a waste of land resources in coastal regions. Based on the results, this study suggested that the policies to the intensive use of land resources and cultivated land protection required regional disparities.

scholarly journals A New Trend in the Space–Time Distribution of Cultivated Land Occupation for Construction in China and the Impact of Population Urbanization

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5089 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Ma ◽  
Liu
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
The Government ◽  
Population Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

Rapid urbanization has brought huge development dividends to China. At the same time, its negative effects have aroused people’s attention. For example, a large amount of cultivated land has been occupied for urban expansion and construction. Using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and the spatial Durbin model (SDM), we analyzed the spatial distribution of cultivated land occupation for construction (CLOC) and its driving factors in 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2016. The results indicated that (1) the CLOC rate presented a significant spatial clustering feature, and its distribution showed a new trend of “homogenization” after the year 2012; (2) as the core driving factor, the population urbanization rate significantly promoted the growth of the CLOC rate in the local province, while showing a negative effect on that rate in the neighboring provinces; (3) in addition, behind the new trend of the CLOC rate, there was a transformation from being “investment driven” to being “population and industry driven”. Therefore, this paper suggests that the government should link each city’s construction land supply to the constantly changing trend of population migrations in China. Further, promoting the tertiary industry can be a win–win strategy for easing the tension between cultivated land and construction land.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Urban Ecosystem Service Value under New Urbanization—A Case Study of Chengdu City

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 02028
Author(s):  
Yi Luo ◽  
Shuang Liu ◽  
Cheng Zhang ◽  
Ruiying Ning ◽  
Jiajin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Ecosystem Service Value ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Service Value ◽  
Land Use Structure ◽  
Unused Land ◽  
The Impact

In order to evaluate the change of ecosystem service value in Chengdu, GIS technology was used to obtain the land use type data of Chengdu from 2009 to 2018. The equivalent factor method was used as the core evaluation method, and an ecosystem value evaluation model was established to explore the impact of various land use types on ecosystem service value. The results show that: (1) the trend of land use change is that both the area and the proportion of land use change in different degrees. The area of cultivated land, water area and unused land are greatly reduced, and the area of construction land expands rapidly, mainly through the occupation of cultivated land and unused land. (2) The intensity of land use in Chengdu is greater and continues to increase, and the contribution rate of construction land is larger, which indicates that the land use structure is developing towards the structural direction of mainly construction land. (3) Changes in ecosystem service value are not only related to land use structure, but also to the economic development, willingness to pay and ability of the whole society. (4) Ecosystem service value is negatively correlated with construction land and unused land; it is positively correlated with cultivated land, forest land and grassland. Generally speaking, Chengdu’s land use change has not caused obvious damage to the ecosystem, but the impact of human lifestyle on the environment in the process of economic development cannot be ignored. The growth of construction land area should be appropriately controlled, ecological land should be protected, and the sustainable development of social-economic-ecological benefits should be realized.

scholarly journals The Use of LCA Method to Assess Environmental Impact of Sewage Sludge Incineration Plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Wielgosiński ◽  
Robert Cichowicz ◽  
Agata Targaszewska ◽  
Jacek Wiśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Sludge Incineration ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of the new, little more popular in Poland of elements of environmental management. In the world literature one can find many examples of the use of LCA but mainly for comparison purposes. The paper presents results of LCA analysis made on the basis of data from a running incineration of sewage sludge. Performing a thorough analysis of this process enables improved operational system, including through a better use of the resulting products of combustion, as well as determining the impact of the thermal treatment of sludge on the environment and compared the results with data from the literature. To date, in Poland has not been carried out environmental impact assessments and the process of thermal treatment of both sludge and waste, based on the assumptions of LCA.

scholarly journals Urban–Rural Construction Land Replacement for More Sustainable Land Use and Regional Development in China: Policies and Practices

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Yurui Li ◽  
Qianyi Wang ◽  
Kee Cheok Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Rights And Interests ◽  
Rural Construction

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, land exploitation in China has caused a decrease of cultivated land, posing a threat to national food security. To achieve the goals of both economic development and cultivated land protection, China launched an urban–rural land replacement measure supported by a new land use policy of “increasing vs. decreasing balance” of construction land between urban and rural areas in 2008. Setting China’s urban and rural land use policies in a historical context and urban–rural sustainable development, this paper discusses four practices in Jiangsu Province, Tianjin Municipality, Shandong Province, and Chongqing Municipality. These practices achieved success in impelling agricultural modernization development, improving rural infrastructure and living circumstances, releasing the potential of rural land resources, and increasing cultivated land and urban construction land in the past decade. However, in some practices, problems, and even some conflicts, exist in the protection of farmers’ rights and interests. These challenges are discussed in the context of implementation. In order to better implement urban–rural construction land replacement and achieve better results, the authors argue that farmers’ rights and interests must always be put first and their wishes should be respected more, a consolidated urban–rural land market and a better land market mechanism should be founded, the supply of public goods and services for villagers should be further improved, and supervision and evaluation mechanisms should be further strengthened.

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