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.

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.

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.

scholarly journals Oscillation of water table due to rainfall: an experience of modeling in GIS

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Federici ◽  
Rossella Bovolenta ◽  
Dario Balestrero ◽  
Roberto V Passalacqua
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
Geotechnical Model

A physically-based Integrated Hydrological-Geotechnical model (IHG) able to assess the rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility was developed, refined and applied in GIS environment along the past years (Passalacqua 2002; Federici et al. 2014; Bovolenta et al. 2016), showing its reliability. It is a useful instrument to landslide susceptibility evaluations and land-use planning over wide areas. The present paper focuses on the modeling of water table oscillation due to rainfall, comparing different hydrological models.

scholarly journals Scour monitoring on bridge pier – methodology and implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 03020
Author(s):  
Emma Florens ◽  
Christophe Chevalier ◽  
Frédérique Larrarte ◽  
Franziska Schmidt ◽  
Edouard Durand
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Bridge Piers ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
Field Approach ◽  
Scour Monitoring ◽  
System Vibration ◽  
Requirement Specifications

Managing the scour risk of civil structures such as bridge piers, constitutes a major challenge to sustainable development and land use planning. The SSHEAR project aims to build optimized diagnostic, warning and management methods to benefit civil structures. This article is focused on the "Field" approach of the project that develop continuous and real-time scour monitoring. Based on theoretical approach and river database analysis, requirement specifications definition allowed to choose relevant devices to monitor scour. To complete this monitoring system, vibration-based monitoring will also be installed.

scholarly journals Soil Suitability Evaluation of Major Crops for Sustainable Land Use Planning in Kupti Watershed, Yavatmal District, Maharashtra

Agropedology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Patangray ◽  
◽  
N.G. Patil ◽  
S. K. Singh ◽  
P. Tiwari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Suitability Evaluation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soil Suitability ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Soil Information

This study presents soil suitability evaluation of two major crops grown in a Kupti watershed (11257 ha) located in Darwha block of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. The study was warranted by continued persistence of the farmers to cultivate cotton and soybean crops during kharif season despite repeated failure of these crops especially cotton recently. The traditional sorghum crop that is now completely wiped out from this region was also evaluated to understand the farmers’ choice of crops. The soil information was collected through survey at 1:10000 scale in the watershed. The FAO criteria were used in conjunction with soil suitability criteria suggested by NBSS and LUP. The investigations indicated that merely 4079.0 ha area representing 36.2 % of watershed are under moderately suitable (S2), 4006.0 ha (35.6 % of TGA) under marginally suitable (S3) and 649.1 ha (5.8 % of TGA) under not suitable (N) class to grow cotton. No soils were categorized as highly suitable. While numbers for sorghum show 5096 ha area (45.3 %) under S2; 2989.0 ha (26.6 %) under S3; and 649.1 ha (5.8 %) under N class. Soybean suitability evaluation showed 5138.0 ha (45.6 %) under S2; 2947.0 ha (26.2 %) under S3 class and 649.1 ha (5.8 %) under N class. Pigeonpea suitability evaluation showed 3421 ha (30.4 %) under S1; 1966 ha (17.5 %) under S2; 2698 ha (24.0 %) under S3 and 649.1 ha (5.8 %) under N class. The results validated the traditional sorghum crop popularity in the past and gain in area grown to soybean. The farmers appear to prefer cotton despite lower soil suitability ratings due to depredation of other crops. These findings suggest that cotton is not well suited to the study area and efforts are required to promote alternate crops and/or propagate soil specific varieties adopt management practices such as mulching, life saving irrigation and broad bed furrow sowing to overcome bio-physical constraints.

scholarly journals Oscillation of water table due to rainfall: an experience of modeling in GIS

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Federici ◽  
Rossella Bovolenta ◽  
Dario Balestrero ◽  
Roberto V Passalacqua
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
Geotechnical Model

A physically-based Integrated Hydrological-Geotechnical model (IHG) able to assess the rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility was developed, refined and applied in GIS environment along the past years (Passalacqua 2002; Federici et al. 2014; Bovolenta et al. 2016), showing its reliability. It is a useful instrument to landslide susceptibility evaluations and land-use planning over wide areas. The present paper focuses on the modeling of water table oscillation due to rainfall, comparing different hydrological models.

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.

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