Towards Sustainable Land Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Reshma Shrestha ◽  
Purna Bhadur Nepali ◽  
Tanka Prasad Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Land Use Policies

In the global context, land-use policies have been considered as one of the significant aspects to obtain sustainable land management. Although this is a situation, it is not always achievable. Therefore, the critical analysis of land use policies is required. This chapter aims to understand the state of the art in land-related policies in Nepal after 1951 that contribute towards SLM. The methodology applied is the desktop review approach. The analytical framework namely sustainable land management (SLM) consisting of parameters: productivity, security, protection, viability, and acceptability, is developed. Under the basis of the SLM framework, content analysis has been carried out. The results show that although the policies take into account all the components of sustainability, the lack of implementing the integrated land use policy has triggered the questions for sustainable land management. The chapter recommends innovative approaches like parcel-based land use planning to obtain sustainable land management.

scholarly journals LAND MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS IN NEPAL: REPERCUSSIONS OF LAND USE POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION GAPS IN REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING

2019 ◽  
Vol IV-5/W2 ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. K. Chand
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Implementation Gaps

Abstract. In lieu of advancement in human civilization from nomadic age to quest for welfare capitalism in recent days, land resources have been one of the most sought after assets for subsequent socio-economic development. The concept of land, once only geo-political has evolved to be interdisciplinary with developmental and managerial aspects in regional and urban planning worldwide making the facets of land management more complex than ever. In the context of modern Nepal, governance in systematic land management appeared during mid-1960 only with establishment of Ministry of Land Reform (MoLR). This paper aims to provide constructive criticism upon institutional fragmentation, and fragile policy and implementation gaps in land use administration which have been bewildering the concepts of regional and urban planning in Nepal. The recitation of this work is primarily based on selected literature review of relevant research on land use planning along with two representative case studies in national context and in international scenario as well. Despite rigorous efforts, the issues of competence in land administration, migration and syndicate in urban real estate remain as the major problems in land management in Nepal. Also, the new state restructuring of federal Nepal has already upraised the challenges in land resources planning for local governments who but seem muddled up in constructing rural economy and strategic urban plan for regional development. Nevertheless, these concerns in regional and urban planning can be addressed through practice of sustainable land management with thoughtful consideration of ambiguities in land use policy and implementation.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Land Use Planning Policies For Cemeteries In Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Horizon ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Planning Policies

Cemeteries are important to society and represent a key piece of the fabric of municipalities. In the Province of Ontario, land use policy as articulated through official plans often fails to recognize cemetaries as a necessary element of municipalities. This paper examines the official plans of selected municipalities to ascertain the extent to which appropriate land use policies are provided to guide the development of cemetaries. Official plans are reviewed for the ten largest municipalities as determined by their population, all adjacent municipalities, and all associated regional municipalities of counties. In total, the official plans of forty-six municipalities are reviewed. The analysis focuses on eight key policy criteria identified in this paper that relate to cemetary development: need, planning horizon, location, size, intensification, compatibility, environment, and permanency. The review confirms the hypothesis that there is a general lack of appropriate land use policy necessary to guide cemetery development in Ontario.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Land Use Planning Policies For Cemeteries In Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Horizon ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Planning Policies

Cemeteries are important to society and represent a key piece of the fabric of municipalities. In the Province of Ontario, land use policy as articulated through official plans often fails to recognize cemetaries as a necessary element of municipalities. This paper examines the official plans of selected municipalities to ascertain the extent to which appropriate land use policies are provided to guide the development of cemetaries. Official plans are reviewed for the ten largest municipalities as determined by their population, all adjacent municipalities, and all associated regional municipalities of counties. In total, the official plans of forty-six municipalities are reviewed. The analysis focuses on eight key policy criteria identified in this paper that relate to cemetary development: need, planning horizon, location, size, intensification, compatibility, environment, and permanency. The review confirms the hypothesis that there is a general lack of appropriate land use policy necessary to guide cemetery development in Ontario.

scholarly journals A Land Resources Planning Toolbox to Promote Sustainable Land Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Feras Ziadat ◽  
Eddy De Pauw ◽  
Freddy Nachtergaele ◽  
Theodora Fetsi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Resources Planning

This paper provides a brief overview of how traditional concepts and approaches of land use planning have evolved into a more widely accepted vision of ‘land resources planning’ and its requirements for participatory processes, involvement of multi-sectoral stakeholders, and multi-thematic information at appropriate scales. Given its comprehensive ambitions, land resource planning (LRP) has a growing demand for a wide-ranging toolset, encompassing different tools in the biophysical, socio-economic, and governance (in a form of guidelines, methods, approaches and support tools). In order to collate knowledge, experiences and lessons from the LRP tools users, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Land and Water Division held a consultation process through a survey among a range of stakeholders operating at different levels, sectors and regions. The survey evidenced limited awareness about the current availability of tools for land use planning. To remedy this situation, FAO developed the Land Resources Planning Toolbox (LRPT), a web-based inventory of existing tools. The Toolbox makes distinguishing between the tools in the socio-economic domain, those in the biophysical and the ones combining the two domains. The Toolbox explains the ability and restrictions of the LRP tools and their appropriateness to different regions, stakeholders and levels, and can be searched according to several criteria. It is concluded that, the Toolbox offers a useful mechanism for knowledge sharing and exchange of recent tools to enhance participatory LRP. It also has a great potential to support sustainable land management and landscape restoration. In this way it addresses, indirectly, conflicts and competition over resources.

scholarly journals Rethinking planning in a digital marketplace: implications of e-commerce for land use policy in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Federici
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Industrial Real Estate ◽  
The City ◽  
Municipal Level

The intention of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe is to create a planning framework that achieves complete communities and a thriving economy. However, there is minimal direction for municipalities planning for retail development to realize these goals. This is problematic, as e-commerce is disrupting the retail industry and is transforming the commercial and industrial real estate that support it. This paper examines e-commerce growth over the past thirteen years in Canada and demonstrates how this is prompting changes in both land markets through two case studies. Case studies identify implications that e-commerce will create for land use policy in Toronto moving forward. Recommendations presented to address these implications prompt upper levels of government to collect data to inform decision making at the municipal level. Recommendations for the City of Toronto are aimed at relaxing land use policies to create a strategy to facilitate efficient goods movement. Key words: E-commerce; Land Use Policy; Toronto, Canada

Land Use Policy and Urban Sprawl in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-349
Author(s):  
Waziri Babatunde Adisa
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Land Policies

Land use policy is central to the development of urban life and the emergence of cities. In many developed capitalist societies, both the planning and expansion of the cities are usually anchored on sustainable urban land policies such that the growth of urban sprawl is effectively controlled. In most developing countries, land use policies are not only disparate, they are usually not connected to the growth of cities because policy makers are after the money they could make from private investors. This chapter argues that though the coming of the Land Use Act 1978 ended the era of disparate land law regimes, it has, over the years, sealed the control of urban lands to state governors, a development that has created massive corruption and arbitrariness in the allocation and utilization of urban lands. This approach to land administration has also hindered effective and sustainable urban and regional planning in many Nigerian cities. This study suggests the review of the 1978 Land Use Act and effective utilization of modern technologies in the monitoring of urban sprawls.

Transit-Oriented Planning

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon Boarnet ◽  
Randall C. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
Land Use Policies

There has been a boom in American rail transit construction in the past two decades. That new investment has prompted the question of what planners can do to support rail transit. One popular answer has been transit-oriented development (TOD), increasingly described as a comprehensive strategy for rail-based land-use planning throughout an urban area. This is most clearly illustrated by Bernick and Cervero’s (1997) description of how such projects can link together to create “transit metropolises” where rail is a viable transportation option for many of the region’s residents. In addition, TOD provides an opportunity to examine the regulatory issues discussed in chapter 6, both because it is an explicit attempt to use urban design as transportation policy and because the intergovernmental issues are especially stark in relation to these developments. Having discussed how travelers behave in the first part of this book, we now ask what we know about how cities behave. Stated in general form, the question is rather broad. It concerns the process by which cities and other land-use authorities decide where to put streets, how to structure the local hierarchy of streets, when to develop more or less densely, how to position employment centers relative to residential areas, and so on. Still, the feasibility of land-use plans with transportation goals depends critically on how such authorities behave. Any discussion of the effectiveness of these strategies must address both how communities plan for transportation and how travelers respond to those plans. The primary transportation goal of TOD generally, as currently practiced, is to coordinate land-use policies to support rail transit. In particular, focusing both residential and commercial development near rail transit stations is aimed at increasing rail ridership (e.g., Bernick, 1990; Bernick and Hall, 1990; Calthorpe, 1993; Cervero, 1993; Bernick and Cervero, 1997). Some evidence suggests that residents near rail transit stations are two to five times more likely to commute by rail when compared with persons living elsewhere in the same urban area (Pushkarev and Zupan, 1977; Bernick and Carroll, 1991; Cervero, 1994d).

scholarly journals Effects of land use and sustainable land management practices on runoff and soil loss in the Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 648 ◽  
pp. 1462-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kindiye Ebabu ◽  
Atsushi Tsunekawa ◽  
Nigussie Haregeweyn ◽  
Enyew Adgo ◽  
Derege Tsegaye Meshesha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Blue Nile ◽  
Blue Nile Basin ◽  
Runoff And Soil Loss ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

Framing health for land-use planning legislation: A qualitative descriptive content analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Harris ◽  
Jennifer Kent ◽  
Peter Sainsbury ◽  
Anne Marie Thow
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Descriptive Content ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

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.

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