Pedestrian System of Singapore and its Enlightenment

2012 ◽  
Vol 236-237 ◽  
pp. 666-670
Author(s):  
Li Chao Zhang ◽  
Chao Yang Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
No Emission ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Green Transportation ◽  
Pedestrian Transportation ◽  
Pedestrian System ◽  
Design Construction

Walking, as the most fundamental trip mode of humanity, is also a trip mode with no energy consumption, no emission and good for health. With the deterioration of the environment of pedestrian transportation in China, the citizens are looking forward to building a safe, harmonious, high-quality pedestrian environment. By analyzing the successful experience in planning, design, construction, management and other aspects of pedestrian system in Singapore, the paper has summarized the beneficial enlightenment on propaganda, education, land use, planning, design, laws and regulations, which will provide reference to green transportation and living trips of citizens for the cities in developing countries.

Combining land-use planning and tenure security: a tenure responsive land-use planning approach for developing countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 1622-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu ◽  
Anna Schopf ◽  
Walter T. de Vries ◽  
Fahria Masum ◽  
Samuel Mabikke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Planning Approach

scholarly journals Development of a Land Use Planning Support Tool in the Developing Countries

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki NAGASAKI ◽  
Kojiro WATANABE ◽  
Akira OHGAI ◽  
Prasanna DIVIGALPITIYA ◽  
Akio KONDO
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Planning Support

scholarly journals Unraveling Latent Aspects of Urban Expansion: Desertification Risk Reveals More

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 4001
Author(s):  
Gianluca Egidi ◽  
Ilaria Zambon ◽  
Ilaria Tombolin ◽  
Luca Salvati ◽  
Sirio Cividino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Regulatory Constraints ◽  
Desertification Risk

Urban expansion results in socioeconomic transformations with relevant impacts for peri-urban soils, leading to environmental concerns about land degradation and increased desertification risk in ecologically fragile districts. Spatial planning can help achieve sustainable land-use patterns and identify alternative locations for settlements and infrastructure. However, it is sometimes unable to comprehend and manage complex processes in metropolitan developments, fueling unregulated and mainly dispersed urban expansion on land with less stringent building constraints. Using the Mediterranean cities of Barcelona and Rome as examples of intense urbanization and ecological fragility, the present study investigated whether land use planning in these cities is (directly or indirectly) oriented towards conservation of soil quality and mitigation of desertification risk. Empirical results obtained using composite, geo-referenced indices of soil quality (SQI) and sensitivity to land desertification (SDI), integrated with high-resolution land zoning maps, indicated that land devoted to natural and semi-natural uses has lower soil quality in both contexts. The highest values of SDI, indicating high sensitivity to desertification, were observed in fringe areas with medium-high population density and settlement expansion. These findings reveal processes of land take involving buildable soils, sometimes of high quality, and surrounding landscapes in both cities. Overall, the results in this study can help inform land use planers and policymakers for conservation of high-quality soils, especially under weak (or partial) regulatory constraints.

Globale Walderhaltung und -bewirtschaftung und ihre Finanzierung: eine Bestandesaufnahme | Global forest conservation and management and its financing: an appraisal

2011 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Jürgen Blaser ◽  
Christian Küchli
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Protection

Around one third of the earth's surface is under forest cover which is distributed more or less equally between industrialised and developing countries. Whereas forest areas in the temperate and boreal climate zones are more or less stable or on the increase, the scale of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics remains dramatic. This situation is likely to continue in the decades to come because the world's ever-growing population needs new agricultural land and the pressure on resources (forest products, land, water, minerals) continues to increase as a result of globalisation and global change. Moreover, sustainable forest management has not yet become standard practice in many southern countries because forest management can rarely compete with other forms of land use in terms of economic returns. The protection and sustainable management of forest resources is basically the responsibility of each individual country and cannot be regulated and financed globally. However, enormous financial resources, i.e. on a scale of tens of billions of Swiss francs per year, are required for the introduction of comprehensive land-use planning in developing countries incorporating suitable protection of natural forests and sustainable forest management. New approaches for the valorisation of services provided by forests such as carbon sinks (e.g. REDD+) offer significant potential for improving forest protection and sustainable forest management. It augurs well that the economic internalisation of the forest and its services is in full swing at global level and that, based on the REDD+ resolutions passed at the last climate conference in Cancún, many countries have opted for the path of forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

Green Transportation and Land Use Planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 779-780 ◽  
pp. 1036-1043
Author(s):  
Chia Nung Li ◽  
Chien Wen Lo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Green Transportation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Land Use Plan

Since usable land in Taiwan is more and more difficult to get and the problems of air pollution, environmental protection, visual quality, and ecological environment, etc, caused by transportation infrastructure are getting more public concern, the Ministry of Transport adopts building green transportation system as one direction of the energy conservation strategy for the traffic department, of which implementing the green transportation system-oriented land use planning is one of the important action plan. As for the system, there should be an objective to determine whether the program result is in accordance with the green transportation developing goal. The paper hereby probes into the green transportation concept that could be applied into the stages of land use design. Land use planning provide some reference to the government agencies and relevant designers when they are drawing up the land use plan.

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