scholarly journals Envisioning a Future

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Fleur Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Planning Law ◽  
Zoning Regulations ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Legislative Control

In Aotearoa (New Zealand), existing territorial legislation and provisions within planning law currently prevent Maori from fully entering into a negotiation with district councils, in terms of creating a vision for their future, without kowtowing to already established rules that conform to Western models of land use and Western ideas of how district councils think Maori should live. On Maori land, development is mainly restricted to farming activities, as most Maori land is rurally zoned. Maori own little land in urban centres or in commercial and industrial areas, as many were historically alienated from ancestral land, and as a consequence were excluded from towns in relation to land ownership. The structure of existing legislation does not encourage Maori to test their own ways of thinking in terms of how they want to occupy urban or rural areas. Existing territorial legislation also discourages Maori from exercising their imagination in terms of developing alternative models to zoning regulations, and thinking about how they could occupy space that they have been excluded from in a way that supports the economic and social development of their communities. What happens when Maori take control and visualise their own future, unburdened by the constraints of legislative control?

scholarly journals Land Use Development of Vineyards in Goriška Brda, Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka FIKFAK ◽  
Velibor SPALEVIC ◽  
Saja KOSANOVIC ◽  
Svetislav G. POPOVIC ◽  
Mladen DJUROVIC ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
The Cross

Land development analyses play a fundamental role in understanding how land use change shapes the land, depending on continuously changing social, economic, and environmental factors that reflect the interests in space. It is especially important to follow land use changes in rural areas due to their role in food security, environmental hazards, cultural landscape preservation, etc. Continuous analyses and monitoring of land use changes allow for the identification and prevention of negative trends in land use (over intensification, land fragmentation, etc.) that might affect biodiversity, change physical and chemical properties of soil, causing soil degradation, change the spatial balance, stability and natural equilibrium in the rural area. The use of the cross-tabulation matrix methodology was suggested for land use change analyses. The methodology, when the cross-tabulation matrix elements are correctly interpreted, allows us to gain as much insight as possible in the process of land use change. This approach enabled a detailed analysis of vineyards in Goriška brda, Slovenia. It was found that the existing methodology fails to analyse the location of change. For this reason, additional analyses of spatial distribution of change and of the locations where changes in space occur were suggested. The study demonstrated that the land use category of vineyards changes systematically, although seemingly randomly. By comparing land use categories over several time periods, the study determined that the size and speed of change varied across different time intervals. The identified land use changes were assessed in the context of their high pressure on agricultural land. The results of the analyses showed different trends shaping the typical agrarian landscape in Goriška brda.

scholarly journals A Bayesian Belief Network approach to evaluating complex effects of irrigation-driven agricultural intensification scenarios on future aquatic environmental and economic values in a New Zealand catchment

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 460 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Quinn ◽  
Ross M. Monaghan ◽  
Vincent J. Bidwell ◽  
Simon R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Bayesian Belief Networks ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
On Farm

Agricultural intensification often has complex effects on a wide range of environmental and economic values, presenting planners with challenging decisions for optimising sustainable benefits. Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) can be used as a decision-support tool for evaluating the influence of development scenarios across a range of values. A BBN was developed to guide decisions on water abstraction and irrigation-driven land use intensification in the Hurunui River catchment, New Zealand. The BBN examines the combined effects of different irrigation water sources and four land development scenarios, with and without a suite of on-farm mitigations, on ground and surface water quality, key socioeconomic values (i.e. farm earnings and jobs, and contribution to regional gross domestic production (GDP)) and aquatic values (i.e. salmon, birds, waterscape, contact recreation, periphyton and invertebrates). It predicts high farm earnings, jobs and regional GDP with 150% increase in irrigated area, but a range of positive and negative aquatic environmental outcomes, depending on the location of water storage dams and the application of a suite of on-farm mitigations. This BBN synthesis of a complex system enhanced the ability to include aquatic values alongside economic and social values in land-use and water resource planning and decision making, and has influenced objective setting in Hurunui planning processes.

scholarly journals Alternative Methods for Keeping Land in Agriculture

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic O. Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Land Use Controls

Creeping urbanization without land use controls is threatening rural areas with the loss of prime and scenic agricultural land. The operation of a relatively free land market shifts land to the highest bidder—one who believes he can make a profit, or one who judges his psychic income from ownership and/or use sufficient to make him prefer land ownership to alternative investments or consumption. As farmers retire and sell to nonfarmers, prime agricultural land adjacent to cities is transferred to more intensive, profitable, and irreversible urban uses—residences, commerce, recreation, and industry. Farmland is shifted from active farming to retirement homes and second homes, both at retail and in large developments. This land use trend is frequently cited as undesirable by municipal planners since it leads to a loss of prime agricultural land which may be needed for future food production and reduces pastoral scenery. In a recent study in Massachusetts, J. B. Wyckoff found that the process of suburbanization was consuming rural land at a very rapid rate—from two to eight times the historic rate.

scholarly journals Rural Land Use Change Driven by Informal Industrialization: Evidence from Fengzhuang Village in China

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yin ◽  
Xu Zhao ◽  
Wenjia Zhang ◽  
Pei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Furniture Industry ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use

This study investigates the spatial expansion process, the de facto land use change, and their endogenous driving forces in the village of Fengzhuang since the 1990s. Fengzhuang is a specialized village in Hebei, North China, in which above 80% of rural residents are engaged in the manufacturing of mahogany furniture. Land use data were extracted from a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) survey conducted in 2014–2015. The results suggest that the land in Fengzhuang has been expanding rapidly under the influence of the informal furniture industry. The villagers transform their residential areas into family workshops and factories for the production of furniture. Most rural areas officially marked as residential are, in effect, used for industrial production, resulting in the informality of land use and circulation. The in-depth survey also reveals that the informality of the furniture industry, the bottom-up process of land development, and the evolution of government regulation are the major reasons leading to the de facto change of land use in Fengzhuang. This study offers a microscopic perspective of land use change, which helps to explore the formation and change of rural land use and actual functions, as well as the mechanisms behind them. These findings are expected to provide some implications for improving rural development strategies, rural planning, and governance in China’s specialized villages such as Fengzhuang.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF IRRIGATION ON LIGHT LAND DEVELOPMENT IN MID CANTERBURY

1978 ◽  
pp. 187-187
Author(s):  
B.M. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intensive Land Use ◽  
Base Data

This thesis reviews the development over the past 30 years of an area of light land in Mid Canterbury, New Zealand. The aim is to examine the effect that irrigation has had on this development. Development is defined in terms of increased production, greater flexibility, or more intensive land use. Both archival research and a survey of a 30% random sample of farmers is used to gather base data from an irrigated and adjacent dryland zone. These zones have similar cultural and physical characteristics.

scholarly journals TOWARDS 2000: FARMING AND POTENTIAL: CENTRAL OTAGO

1987 ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Incentive Scheme ◽  
Wool Production ◽  
Merino Wool ◽  
Pastoral Farming

Central Otago is the driest, the coldest, as well as one of the hottest areas in New Zealand. Within Central Otago an enormous diversity of land use occurs. This ranges from intensive horticulture to extensive high country pastoral farming. Pastoral farming is perhaps best known for wool production, in particular merino wool. History tells us that sheep farming was profitable for many years and in 1871 Otago had 3.7 m sheep or about 4% of the national. Things were done on a grand scale in those early days. As an example, the woolshed on the Teviot run held 8,000 sheep and 40 shearing stands. History will also tell us that the Land Development Encouragement Loan Scheme (LDEL) and the Livestock Incentive Scheme (LIS) had an enormous impact on Central Otago. In Otago 195,000 ha of tussock country was oversown and topdressed and this accounted for 27% of the national total spent on LDEL. History will also tell us that 1985-86 was catastrophic financially for most pastoral farmers and the outlook for 1986-87 shows little improvement.

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