Issues of sustainability and sustainable land management

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Zinck ◽  
A. Farshad
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Land Management System

The concept of sustainability shows many facets. Ecologists, environmentalists, agronomists, sociologists, economists and politicians use it with different connotations. In addition, the sustainability of land management systems varies in space, according to climate, soil, technology and societal conditions. Sustainable farming systems vary also in time, as they evolve and may collapse, frequently together with the corresponding sociosystems. Because of its complexity, sustainability is difficult to measure directly and requires the use of appropriate indicators for assessment. A good indicator is free of bias, sensitive to temporal changes and spatial variability, predictive and referenced to threshold values. Relevant data are often incomplete or inadequate for indicator implementation. To embrace the whole width of sustainability, several methods and techniques should be used concurrently, including land evaluation and coevolutionary, retrospective and knowledge-based approaches. It is, however, at the application level that major constraints arise. A sustainable land management system must satisfy a large variety of requirements, including technological feasibility, economic viability, political desirability, administrative manageability, social acceptability, and environmental soundness. Real world conditions at farm and policy-making levels need to be substantially improved to achieve sustainable land management. Key words: Definition, assessment and implementation issues of sustainable land management

FARMING SYSTEMS IN TWO LESS FAVOURED AREAS IN PORTUGAL: THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM 1989 TO 2009 AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nádia Jones ◽  
Jan de Graaff ◽  
Filomena Duarte ◽  
Isabel Rodrigo ◽  
Ate Poortinga
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management

scholarly journals FORMALIZING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: THE STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W15 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
R. Jaljolie ◽  
S. Dalyot
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Scale Dimension ◽  
Land Management System ◽  
Mathematical Definitions

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> It is expected that by the year 2050, 66% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, necessitating the efficient management of land and urban space, namely the requirement for multi-dimensional land management systems (MLMS). In most countries, current LMS are two dimensional, representing the reality on a plane. This research aims at outlying guidelines designed for augmenting existing 2D LMS to multi-dimensional ones, by investigating theoretical (conceptual) and technical inferences related to the adding of the height dimension, the time dimension and the scale dimension (scale dimension may also refer to levels of details). Sustainable multi-purpose land management systems for serving various end-users is essential, therefore, our study is based on a Delphi questionnaire, which aims at understanding the perspective of diverse stakeholders and experts who may use LMS, as well as mapping their requirements and expectations from the LMS. Questions were categorized into two groups: i) theoretical, focusing on semantic and mathematical definitions; and, ii) technical, focusing on functionalities, databases, data collection, etc. As a preliminary assessment, responses of eight experts, from different fields and countries, to the questionnaire were analysed and summarized. The results are presented in this paper, including the main issues that experts pointed out, as well as suggested classes, fields, procedures and functionalities that might be required from a multi-purpose MLMS.</p>

scholarly journals From conflicting to complementing: The formalisation of customary land management systems governing swidden cultivation in Myanmar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jim David Ennion
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Swidden Cultivation ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Land Management System ◽  
Land Use Rights

<p>Swiddening is a traditional and widespread agricultural system in mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. It is prevalent in Myanmar’s hilly border region. However, economic, political, demographic, social and technological drivers in this region are causing this form of land use to undergo significant transition. This transition is affecting the customary land use rights of swidden farmers.  Throughout Myanmar’s tumultuous history, customary land management systems and the state land management system have been poorly integrated. This has led to customary land use rights receiving little formal recognition and left customary right-holders vulnerable to exploitation.  Recent political and economic developments within Myanmar have prompted changes to the state land management system. The Myanmar government introduced the Farmland Law 2012 and the Vacant Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law 2012 which significantly altered how agricultural land is managed. However, these laws also contain minimal interaction with customary land management systems. In relation to swidden cultivation, the legislation is unclear how land under customary tenure is identified, how communally-held land is recognised and what swidden practices are legally permitted.  The draft National Land Use Policy released in late 2014 reveals progress in addressing these issues. However, greater clarity is needed with regard to how the policy is implemented. Many lessons may also be derived from the experiences of surrounding Southeast Asian countries, such as the Philippines and Cambodia, in the way customary land use rights are incorporated into state legislation.  The goal of this thesis is to propose how customary land management systems may be integrated into the state land management system in order for customary land use rights over swidden land to be recognised as comprehensively as possible by the state. The legislative framework should also allow sufficient flexibility for local farmers to adapt to changing circumstances. The identification of swidden land will be considered in the context of producing maps of customary land use, the management of swidden land under collective land-holding structures will be discussed with regard to pressures to individualise land-holding and the use of swidden cultivation practices will be considered in light of proposed development projects.  The current political and economic climate in Myanmar indicates some willingness to acknowledge and address these issues. There is hope that customary land management systems and the state land management system will begin to complement, instead of conflict with, each other in order to enable swidden farmers to access their customarily held land into the future.</p>

North Otago Sustainable Land Management Group: Assisting the North Otago community to move towards the goal of sustainable land use

1996 ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
G. Ludemann ◽  
D.C. Hewson ◽  
R. Green
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
The North ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Market Opportunities

The North Otago area has a climate that often fluctuates from severe drought to flood in a short space of time. The climatic extremes, and some unsustainable land use practices can put the area's fragile loessial soils at risk of water and wind erosion. This paper outlines an approach used in North Otago which has enabled the community to identify its sustainability and environmental issues and begin to make changes to land use and farmer attitudes. A group of key farmers was brought together to oversee the preparation of Sustainable Land Management Guidelines for the downlands. (This group became the North Otago Sustainable Land Management Group - NOSLaM Group.) From this grew a wide-ranging community-driven project with a full-time co-ordinator, and a vision to have most land users adopting sustainable farming systems. This should ensure the area is ready to meet the world market demands for environmental quality in food and fibre production. The Group will promote individual environmental farm plans which will have a monitoring component. Some farmers will work towards some form of property accreditation such as ISO 14001. This pilot project will be highlighting the economic benefits of environmentally sound farming methods, through seminars, field-days, newsletters and a demonstration farm. The Group is working in partnership with farmers, the processing industry and marketing people to identify market opportunities for the area's food and fibre produced by environmentally friendly farming systems. Keywords: cultivation, environment, Environmental Farm Plans, erosion, guidelines, ISO 14001 accreditation, market opportunities, monitoring, sustainable land use, sustainability

Framework for evaluation of sustainable land management: A case study of two rain-fed cereal-livestock farming systems in the Black Chernozemic soil zone of southern Alberta, Canada

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gameda ◽  
J. Dumanski
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Chernozemic Soil ◽  
Soil Zone ◽  
Land Use System

The Framework for Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management (FESLM) was used to assess the sustainablility of two land-use systems in the Canadian Prairies. The FESLM provided a means of identifying the factors impacting on sustainability, the processes by which these factors operate and interact, and the indicators and thresholds by which they could be measured to attain an assessment end point. On the basis of the framework, it was possible to expand sustainability assessment beyond traditional factors of productivity and economic viability to include ones pertaining to production risk, protection of the natural resource base, and social acceptability. In conducting the FESLM-based analysis, the decision-making characteristics of the producer were identified as important components of sustainability. Preliminary indications are that substantially greater amounts of farm-specific and regional data are required to make a conclusive FESLM-based sustainability assessment. Nevertheless, application of the framework suggests that, for the farming systems and the type of producer under consideration, the conservation-based land-use system is more sustainable than the conventional land-use system. Key words: Sustainable land management, Black Chernozemic soil zone, livestock farming

CHARACTERISING INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN HIMALAYAN SLOPING LANDS

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 431-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. RAIS ◽  
D. C. SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Eastern Himalayas ◽  
Sloping Lands ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Hill

Viewing environmental perspectives and growing concerns related to ecological balance in nature together with social, agricultural, industrial and economic developments, sustainable development of ecosystems has become a crucial issue with a particularity to hill and mountain regions around the world. Out of a vast coverage on sustainable development, SLM (Sustainable Land Management) is one important ecosystem module that itself has a wider expansion and is construed of several folds and dimensions which have been standardised well by an international working group consisted of Agriculture Canada, IBSRAM (now merged with IWMI), FAO, TROPSOIL, USDA-SCS, IFDC and others in the form of a standardised guideline, i.e., FESLM (Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management). In view of a comprehensive account on SLM, indicators of sustainability of land management have been characterised on the basis of five pillars viz. productivity, security, protection, economic viability and acceptability in the hill areas covering a long stretch of western, eastern and entire north-eastern Himalayas encompassing the states of J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Assam Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur etc. in the present study. Various parameters have been chosen to carve out indicators satisfying each basic five pillar of the FESLM standard. Also, the efficacy of these indicators has been observed on some of the important agricultural systems being used in practice in different sloping lands in India; thus, it has been concluded that the sustainability needs to be enhanced in north-eastern Himalayan farming systems.

scholarly journals Land Evaluation, Sustainable Land Management and Impacts of Climate Change in Agriculture; Ethiopia: Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohannes Habteyesus Yitagesu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Soil Degradation ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Population Pressure ◽  
Sustainable Land Management

Sustainable land management has emerged as an issue of major global concern. In many countries particularly in Ethiopia, the concern of suitable land management is because of the increasing population pressure on limited land resources, demanding for increased food production, the degradation of land and water resources accelerating rapidly. If the lands well suited for agriculture, it will follows further increases in production to meet the food demands of increasing populations, must come about by the more intensive use of existing agricultural lands. Climate & soil conditions, land use type and management, determine the production limit.To contest cited venomous effects of intensification, regard to environmental effects requires the development and implementation of technologies and policies, which will result in sustainable land management (Gisla-dottir and Stocking, 2005; Campbell and Hagmann, 2003). The major factors reason for low productivity include dependence on traditional farming techniques, soil degradation caused by overgrazing and deforestation, poor corresponding services such as extension, credit, marketing, infrastructure, and climatic factors such as drought and flood (Deressa, Hassan, & Ringler, 2011). In addition to the low soil fertility, soil degradation in Ethiopia; reduces soil productivity which results to food insecurity, economic losses and aggravates the recurrent droughts (Shiferaw & Holden, 1999; Mitiku et al., 2006). It has also increases vulnerability of people to the adverse effects of climate variability and change, by reducing soil organic carbon level and water holding capacity, which in turn decreases agricultural productivity and local resource assets (TerrAfrica, 2009; Nyssen et. al., 2003a; Hurni, 2000; Mitiku Haile,2006 & Daniel et al., 2015). Climate change causes wide-ranging effects on the environment, socioeconomic and associated sectors: water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, terrestrial ecosystems, and biodiversity (Belay Zerga & Getaneh Gebeyehu, 2016). Ethiopia is extremely vulnerable to climate related disasters including drought, heavy rains, floods, frost and heat waves which leads to a negative impacts on agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, and economic development (NMA 2007). Planning of changes in land use requires a inclusive knowledge of the natural resources; a trustworthy estimate of what they are capable of producing, so that reliable predictions and recommendations can be made. Production potential, the conservation of soil and water resources for use by future generations requires consideration in planning land development. For these reasons sustainable land management is now getting considerable attention from development experts, policy makers and researchers. In long-term period, any utilization over its capability of the land will cause degradation and yield reduction. Therefore, to know the land production capacity and to allocate the land to the satisfactory and to the most profitable should be cared.

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