Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Adirondack Park ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
The People ◽  
One Year

This chapter introduces some of the people who played primary roles in the Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) founding. It includes the elite group of activists and policymakers who were early champions for the idea of regional land use planning; planners, lawyers, and naturalists who implemented the Land Use and Development Plan; activists who fought to abolish or weaken the plan; and public officials who had to find ways to turn it into a workable law. New York State spent twenty years struggling to write a master plan for the Adirondack Park before the APA was established. Activists had been calling for a master plan for twenty years before the state even started trying. The chapter further discusses the two produced plans, led by David Newhouse, each of them organized around a big map. One plan zoned the state land into progressively stricter classifications, culminating with wilderness. The other map rated each acre of the 3.6 million privately owned acres in terms of its suitability for development. Ultimately, the chapter assesses the aftermath of the postponement of the Land Use and Development Plan by one year and argues if the APA either saved or ruined the ecological and economic health of the park.

The Big Push

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-234
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
The State ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
Adirondack Park ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Big Push

This chapter highlights Peter S. Paine's responsibilities and works at Cleary Gottlieb, an international law firm with offices on an upper floor of a skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. It discusses the eight Adirondack bills sent to the legislature in 1971 and the four remaining bills reintroduced to the legislature in January 1972. Paine acted as a liaison between the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), his fellow Temporary Study Commission (TSC) alumni, and state legislators to move those four bills along. The chapter outlines the importance of the bills to the TSC's vision of the Adirondacks, and emphasizes the APA's main job to draft two land use plans: the State Land Master Plan, and the Land Use and Development. It further discusses the remaining TSC bills as they moved through the legislature: the Environmental Quality Bond Act; the Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers Act; a bill that would require a constitutional amendment to diminish the park's boundaries; and a bill that expanded the size of the park by about 250,000 acres. Ultimately, the chapter assesses the APA board's struggles with town governments trying to sneak by the agency, crossed signals from Albany, and the board's biggest problem: it was split, with five APA members solidly in favor of regional zoning, one whose support was conditional, and three who were skeptical of the idea.

SOIL CAPABILITY ANALYSIS FOR REGIONAL LAND USE PLANNING — A STUDY OF THE OTTAWA URBAN FRINGE

1979 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. DUMANSKI ◽  
E. C. HUFFMAN ◽  
I. B. MARSHALL
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Capability Analysis ◽  
Suitability Map ◽  
Regional Land

A procedure is outlined for analyzing soil data for regional land use planning. Maps of basic land factor limitations are illustrated for the Ottawa urban fringe, and each map is evaluated for biological and nonbiological uses. The major land factors relative to urbanization are used along with other data to derive an urban "suitability" map. Results are compared to the regional development plan for the area.

scholarly journals Divergencias y convergencias para asegurar la actividad agrícola en Ecuador: análisis de la parroquia Chuquiribamba (Loja) / Divergences and convergences to ensure agriculture in Ecuador: analysis of the Chuquiribamba Parrish (Loja)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Iñiguez-Gallardo ◽  
Renato Serrano-Barbecho ◽  
Fabián René Reyes Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Spatial Variables ◽  
The People ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Parcel Size

La regulación de uso del suelo es un continuo debate en el proceso de planificación territorial, sobre todo en Ecuador, donde la agricultura a pequeña escala es uno de los pilares de la economía familiar para un amplio porcentaje de habitantes del sector rural. Por esta razón, identificar las variables requeridas para mantener la actividad agrícola es una necesidad y obligación. El objetivo principal de este artículo es identificar las variables espaciales que inciden sobre la probabilidad de mantener la actividad agrícola, de acuerdo con las expectativas de la gente y las características del territorio. Para ello, se comparan datos de percepción de los pobladores sobre variables tales como superficie predial, distancia a carretera, a canales de riego y a mercados, con datos espaciales de estas mismas variables. El área de estudio es la Parroquia Chuquiribamba, perteneciente al cantón Loja, al sur del Ecuador, por ser una de las principales fuentes agrícolas del sector. Los resultados sugieren convergencias entre las percepciones de la gente y las variables espaciales necesarias para asegurar la actividad agrícola, así como divergencias respecto a la normativa que regula el tamaño mínimo predial.  Abstract Land-use regulation is an ongoing debate in the process of land-use planning. This is particularly true for a country such as Ecuador, where small-scale agriculture is one of the pillars of the family economy for a large percentage of inhabitants of the rural sector.  In this context, identifying the necessary variables for ensuring agricultural activities is a need and an obligation. The main objective of this article is to identify the spatial variables that affect the probability of maintaining agricultural activity, according to the expectations of the people and the characteristics of the territory. We compare data regarding the perceptions of the people of variables such as parcel size, road, irrigation and market proximity, with spatial data of the same variables. The area of study is the Chuquiribamba Parish, located in Canton Loja, in southern Ecuador. We selected it due to its agricultural importance in the Canton. The results suggest convergences between the perceptions of the people and the spatial variables necessary to safeguard agriculture, as well as divergences with the normative regulating the minimum parcel-size. 

The Big Map

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-190
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
The State ◽  
Adirondack Park ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
The North ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Boundary Lines

This chapter tells the story of how the early Adirondack Park Agency (APA) struggled to meet the state's assignments. It details what the state legislature gave to the early APA: an extremely ambitious to-do list and a ridiculously small budget. Much of the work depended on the men who had also worked for the Temporary Study Commission (TSC). The chapter analyses the story of George Davis who turned the idea for his dissertation into a big map that transformed life in the North Country. Davis's passion was protecting land that he thought should remain free of human impact. His thesis would compile data to show which Adirondack lands were suitable for development and which should remain undisturbed. The chapter then shifts with the APA chairman, Richard Lawrence who overcame opposition on several fronts as he struggled to maintain a working majority of board members, and the tireless work of Peter Paine, a well-connected lawyer, who argued stridently for the two plans. Ultimately, the chapter explains the significance of the APA map project. It argues that map making was important because the legal requirements for the land use plan were unusual, as most land use laws use text to describe the boundary lines of the area being regulated.

scholarly journals Hydrological responses of agroforestry system application which is not based on land suitability, a case study in Cimuntur watershed

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edy Junaidi ◽  
Yonky Indrajaya
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agroforestry System ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Hydrological Responses ◽  
The People ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Nephelium Lappaceum ◽  
Specific Discharge ◽  
Use Pattern

Land use in a watershed should consider land capability and watershed carrying capacity so that the land can optimally. Agroforestry is a land use system that not only aims to generate income for the people but also to maintain hydrological conditions of a watershed. This research aims to evaluate the hydrological responses due to the application of agroforestry system on several land use pattern that has been changed. There are three steps in the analysis: (1) Assessment on land use planning (RTRW), (2) Land use suitability classification for agroforestry system, and (3) Development of scenarios for suitable land use of agroforestry system for hydrological function. The results of this study show that the application of agroforestry system of woody plant (i.e. sengon), fruit plant (i.e. Nephelium lappaceum), annual crops (i.e. clove, coconut, Parkia speciosa and banana), perennial crops (i.e. cardamom, and banana), and seasonal crops (i.e. cassava) on unsuitable land use gives the lowers on Coefficient of River Regime (KRS), specific discharge, Run off Coefficient (C)  and Total Dissolve Sediment (TDS). This agroforestry system can be applied on several land use pattern that has been changed, because this system not only aims to generate income for the people but also to the maintain hydrological condition of a watershed.

scholarly journals Potencial Pedoclimático do Estado da Paraíba para a Cultura do Algodão Herbáceo (Gossypium hirsutum) (Pedoclimatic potential of the Paraíba state to cultivation of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum))

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2089
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto Megna Francisco ◽  
DJAIL SANTOS ◽  
EDUARDO RODRIGUES VIANA DE LIMA ◽  
ZIANY NEIVA BRANDÃO
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Gossypium Hirsutum ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Upland Cotton ◽  
The State ◽  
High Class ◽  
Area Increase ◽  
Very High

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar o potencial pedoclimático do Estado da Paraíba para a cultura agrícola do algodão herbáceo. Na obtenção dos mapas de potencial pedoclimático, as informações obtidas do potencial dos solos foram cruzadas com aquelas da aptidão climática considerando três cenários pluviométricos: anos chuvosos, anos regulares e anos secos. O cruzamento das informações foi realizado por meio de técnicas de geoprocessamento utilizando o software SPRING e obtendo-se os mapas do potencial pedoclimático. O resultado das interpretações foi classificado em quatro classes: Muito Alto, Alto, Médio, Baixo e Muito Baixo. Os resultados demonstraram que a variabilidade pedológica e climática do Estado da Paraíba tem influenciado o potencial pedoclimático do Estado para a cultura do algodão herbáceo, tendo sido observadas diferenças significativas na extensão territorial das classes e subclasses de potencial pedoclimático. A extensão do potencial pedoclimático Alto e Médio apresentou significativo aumento em relação aos cenários seco e regular, com maior percentual de ocorrência para o cenário pluviométrico chuvoso. Não houve dados para a classe de potencial pedoclimático Muito Alto e dessa forma a mesma não foi mapeada neste trabalho. A área da classe Alta aumenta conforme cresce o cenário pluviométrico. A classe Média do potencial pedoclimático é ampliada em área conforme aumenta a probabilidade de chuvas. Na classe Baixa de potencial pedoclimático a diferença na mudança foi pouco significativa. Entre as subclasses do potencial Muito Baixo, foi observado aumento da área de acordo com o aumento da probabilidade de ocorrência de chuvas no Estado.    A B S T R A C T The objective of this work was to evaluate the soil and climate potential for upland cotton in Paraiba state, Brazil. For obtaining pedoclimatic potential maps, the information obtained for soil potential were combined with that to climate ability considering three rainfall scenarios: wet years, dry years and regular years. Information crossing was carried out by techniques of geoprocessing using the SPRING software and maps of soil and climate potential were obtained. The interpretation results were classified into four pedoclimatic potential classes: Very High, High, Medium, Low and Very Low. The results showed that pedological and climate variability in Paraiba state have influenced the pedoclimatic potential of this state to the upland cotton, with significant differences observed in the territory for classes and subclasses of pedoclimatic potential. The extent of potential soil and climate High and Medium showed a significant increase over the dry and regular scenarios, with the highest percentage of occurrence for the rainy rainfall scenario. There was no data for the potential class Very High soil and climate and therefore the same has not been mapped in this work. High class area enlarges as the rainfall scenario increases. The mapped area for the Middle class showed enlargement with rainy probability increases. Little significant changes were observed for Low class of soil and climate potential. Among potential subclasses Very Low, were observed an area increase according rain probability was enlarging in the state. Keywords: Geotechnology, land use planning, pedological potential, rain probability, climate aptitude.   

scholarly journals ANÁLISE COMPARADA DA PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR EM PLANOS DE ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO: estudo empírico brasileiro e português

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Aparecido Bazolli ◽  
Cecilia Maria Neves Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Participatory Model

Resumo: Este estudo analisou planos de ordenamento de território brasileiros e portugueses, com o objetivo de compreender a prática da participação popular na construção da democracia participativa. A metodologia aplicada ao trabalho consistiu na análise empírica da participação popular do Plano-Diretor Municipal (2007); e o de Regularização Fundiária (2012), em Palmas-TO, Brasil; do Plano Nacional da Política de Ordenamento do Território (2006); e o do Diretor Municipal de Vila Nova de Gaia (2007), em Portugal. Da análise efetuada, verificou a participação popular nos planos estudados com caráter meramente homologatório, com reduzida presença de atores, e da forte influência da legislação urbana, de difícil aplicação prática. Concluiu que o modelo participativo aplicado aos casos brasileiros e portugueses estudados merece reflexão quanto à sua qualidade, em razão dos fatores apontados neste estudo descaracterizarem e comprometerem a construção da democracia participativa, usada como instrumento moderno de gestão no ordenamento do território.Palavras-chave: Participação pública, Plano Diretor, Plano de Ordenamento.COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN LAND USE PLANNING: brazilian and portuguese empirical studyAbstract: This study analyzed Brazilian and Portuguese land use planning in order to understand the practice of popular participation in the construction of participatory democracy. The methodology applied consisted on empirical analysis of popular participation: in Brazil the Palmas - TO Master Plan (2007) and land regularization (2012); in Portugal the National Land Use Planning Policy (2006) and the master Plan of Vila Nova de Gaia (2007). From the analysis made, should be highlight, the involvement practice with merely ratifying aims, reduced presence of actors, and strong influence of urban legislation. In conclusion the participatory model applied to Brazilian and Portuguese studied cases deserves reflection regarding its quality, due to the factors identified in this study, mischaracterize and compromise participatory democracy concept, as a modern management tool in land use planning.Key words: Public participation, master plan, Development Plan.

Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Land Use Planning Tool in India : A Case of Gurgaon-Manesar Development Plan, Haryana, India

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debojyoti Mukherjee ◽  
Asha Rajvanshi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Development Plans

Lack of comprehensive land use planning in India has posed significant challenges in achieving more optimal utilisation of land resources. This has also limited the opportunities for developing land use plans that adequately reflect the rationale and objectives of planning. This calls for developing a comprehensive and holistic approach to review the compatibility of actions associated with development plans involving multiple sectors with the ground realities. This paper is an attempt to apply strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a promising tool to identify environmental risks and deficiencies in the land use planning process in India. The paper draws on the experience of applying SEA to Gurgaon-Manesar Development Plan for 2031 and elaborates on the merits and usefulness of adopting SEA in land use planning in the Indian context.

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