scholarly journals Strategies to Enhance Adherence to Participatory Village Land use Plans in Ulanga District in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
M. N. Naiposha ◽  
E. F. Nzunda
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Land Use Plan

Land use plans have been considered as a solution to land use problems. Effectiveness of implementation of land use plan relies on a number of factors including strategies that are used to enhance adherence to the land use plan. For the study area, current and potential strategies to enhance adherence to land use plans had previously not been assessed. Thus this study assessed current and potential strategies used to enhance adherence to participatory village land use plans in Ulanga District, Tanzania. Data were collected through household survey of 120 respondents from two villages, key informants interviews, focus group discussions, field observation, review of guidelines for land use planning, village and use plans, district land use framework, books and journals. Information from household survey and village records were descriptively analysed to obtain frequencies and percentages. Information from key informants and focus groups was analysed by content analysis. Current strategies used included by-laws, boundary demarcation, zoning, community action plan, and conflict resolution. The current strategies were ineffectively implemented and enforced due to inadequate awareness, inadequate fines and penalties, funding limitations, weak governance and inefficient coordination and monitoring. Potential strategies that should be implemented include education, awareness raising, capacity building and benefit sharing.

scholarly journals Adherence to Land use Zones in Implementation of Participatory Village Land use Planning Policy in Ulanga District in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
M. N. Naiposha ◽  
E. F. Nzunda
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Kappa Statistic ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Management Plans

Proper implementation of land use planning may contribute to solving land use problems, including land use conflicts. Adherence to land plans depends on many factors which vary according to circumstances of a study area. The present study aims to contribute to knowledge needed to enhance adherence to zones in land use planning. Specifically, the study had two objectives, namely: (1) to examine extent of adherence to village land use plans and, (2) to assess factors that influence adherence to the village land use plans. Data were collected through household survey of 120 respondents from two villages, key informants, focus group discussions, field observation, review of guidelines for land use planning, village land use plans (VLUPs), district land use framework, books and journal articles. GPS points to examine adherence to VLUPs were analyzed using Kappa statistic. Factors influencing adherence to VLUPs were analysed using binary logistical regression and pair-wise ranking. There was moderate adherence with kappa coefficient of 0.47 and 0.49 for Iragua and Kichangani villages. Larger families with higher incomes were more likely not to adhere to land use plans. Immigrants were also more likely not to adhere to plans than residents. Corruption of village leaders, lack of follow up by village leaders on implementation, lack of awareness on land use plans and underestimated population growth were the key prioritised factors that resulted in non-adherence of land use plans. The study recommends a review of the zoning standards to enhance sufficiency of allocated zones; privatization of grazing land; establishment of communal grazing management plans; and involvement of communities in developing complete plans. The study also recommends close monitoring; reviewing of VLUPs; enforcement of good governance; establishing incentive schemes; offering continuous education and developing participatory implementation framework.

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.

scholarly journals Land Cover Change in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria: Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Land Use Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evidence Enoguanbhor ◽  
Florian Gollnow ◽  
Jonas Nielsen ◽  
Tobia Lakes ◽  
Blake Walker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Land Cover ◽  
Land Use Plan

Rapid urban expansion is a significant contributor to land cover change and poses a challenge to environmental sustainability, particularly in less developed countries. Insufficient data about urban expansion hinders effective land use planning. Therefore, a high need to collect, process, and disseminate land cover data exists. This study focuses on urban land cover change detection using Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing methods to produce baseline information in support for land use planning. We applied a supervised classification of land cover of LANDSAT data from 1987, 2002, and 2017. We mapped land cover transitions from 1987 to 2017 and computed the net land cover change during this time. Finally, we analyzed the mismatches between the past and current urban land cover and land use plans and quantified the non-urban development area lost to urban/built-up. Our results indicated an increase in urban/built-up and bare land cover types, while vegetation land cover decreased. We observed mismatches between past/current land cover and the existing land use plan. By providing detailed insights into mismatches between the regional land use plan and unregulated urban expansion, this study provides important information for a critical debate on the role and effectiveness of land use planning for environmental sustainability and sustainable urban development, particularly in less developed countries.

The Environment and Planning of Alaska

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-728
Author(s):  
A J Catanese ◽  
J C Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Decision Mode ◽  
Consensus Decision ◽  
States History

This paper describes a planning effort that is unique in United States history. Notwithstanding US Constitutional constraints, a joint Federal-State effort attempted to plan for the State of Alaska's 375 million acres of land, following statehood in 1959. The study focuses on the seven-year life of the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission (FSLUPC) and the competing interests of resource development, environmental preservation, and subsistence life-styles. A consensus decision mode resulted in considerable success in resolving conflicts among competing interests, but failure in consolidating a constituency and developing a land-use plan. The FSLUPC closed its doors in 1979, and in 1980 Congress passed an Alaskan Wilderness Bill the effect of which is so large that it doubles American conservation lands.

scholarly journals Exploring the Federal Role in Protecting Canada’s Farmland: A Matter Worthy of National Interest?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 46-70
Author(s):  
David J Connell
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
Integrated Policy

Is protecting farmland a matter of national interest?  If so, should the federal government play a stronger role in agricultural land use planning (AgLUP)?  This paper examines potential roles and contributions of the federal government in AgLUP.  Methods were based on surveys with key informants that examined the validity and viability of six possible roles of the federal government.  The key informants were provincial-level experts in AgLUP from across Canada.  We found that all six of the potential roles of the federal government to protect farmland that we identified are, to varying degrees, valid and reliable options.  Two of the six roles were viewed most favourably: co-operative federalism; integrated policy approach.  We also identified a seventh role, which is for the federal government to adopt a policy that ensures that decisions regarding the use of federal-owned land must adhere to provincial legislation.

scholarly journals KITAKIWI MASINAHIKANAN (OUR MAP)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joelle McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Far North ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Procedural Values ◽  
Crown Lands

Members of Nibinamik First Nation, an Anishinaabe community in the Far North of Ontario, are in the process of updating their land use plan. As part of this land use planning project, Nibinamik seeks an accompanying and informing map of their traditional territory. Through a partnership between Nibinamik and Ryerson University, we explored the substantive and procedural values informing the mapping, and by extension the land use planning, project. The findings are discussed in relation to the literature on Indigenous counter-mapping and in reference to the guiding provincial policy framework. Importantly, Nibinamik seeks an alternate process to that imposed by the province, while simultaneously seeking recognition by the province. In this way, Nibinamik resists the province’s claims to exclusive power over crown lands, and asserts claims to shared power over traditional territory. Key words: counter-mapping; Indigenous Planning; northern Ontario

The Use of Performance Criteria in Developing Standard Methods for Land-Use Planning

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. M. Ale ◽  
G. M. H. Laheij ◽  
J. G. Post
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Population Distributions ◽  
Societal Risk ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Risk Limits ◽  
Uniform Population

Abstract The assessment and management of risk has been a matter of public and political interest for some decades. The growing industry and the growing number of industrial products and services and the associated transport of goods have presented more and more partly unfamiliar hazards with which industry itself, but also the population and governments have had to cope. The Netherlands is one of the countries that struggled most explicitly with this problem. In the Netherlands risk is controlled by setting quantitative performance standards for the industry and for the spatial planners. These standards are expressed in limiting values for individual and societal risk. The standards are used in the policy to reduce the number of people exposed to the effects of an accident. In principle, the societal risk for each new land-use plan should be re-calculated. Since this is proving increasingly cumbersome for planning agencies, several methods have been developed to determine the effects of new land-use plans on the societal risk. These methods give the uniform population density from a certain distance around the establishment at which the indicative limit for the societal risk is not exceeded. Correction factors are determined for non-uniform population distributions around the establishment, non-continuous residence times and alternative societal risk limits. Using these methods allows decision-making without the necessity of repeating quantified risk analyses for each alternative proposal.

Environmental Management within the Framework of Land Use Planning along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Brachya ◽  
E Lerman ◽  
R Lerman ◽  
N Bukler ◽  
Y Nir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Resource Sensitivity ◽  
Intensity Of Development ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
River Mouths

A multi-disciplinary team was commissioned by the Environmental Protection Service to prepare a statutory land use plan for the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Suitability for tourist and recreation development was assessed on the basis of geological, vegetation and landscape surveys. Five levels of intensity of development were defined for beach activities and four levels for visitor activities and accommodation in the hinterland. The allocation of level of development for each site along the Mediterranean coastline was checked in relation to resource sensitivity. The plan includes regulations for the protection of natural and manmade resources, for maximum visitor capacity, for beach services and accommodation, for the location of offshore structures and for development at river mouths,

scholarly journals Participatory Land Use Planning Policy Implementation in Ulanga District, Tanzania: Assessment of Zones Sufficiency

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Margaret N. Naiposha ◽  
Emmanuel F. Nzunda ◽  
Japhet J. Kashaigili
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
The Government

Land use plans have been considered as a solution to land use problems and hence enhance ecological, economic and social sustainability of land use. Appropriateness of land use plans and hence its potential for adherence may rely on sufficiency of zones allocated for different land uses. This study was designed to empirically identify land use implementation problems and suggest solutions relevant to the land users, the government, planners and other stakeholders. Specifically, the study assesses: (1) The extent to which the land use zones cover all zones needed by the stakeholders and; (2) Reasons for levels of sufficiency of the allocated land use zones. Data were collected through household survey of 120 respondents from two villages, key informants, focus group discussions and field observation survey while secondary data were collected through review of guidelines for land use planning, village land use plans, district land use framework, books and journals. Information used to assess sufficiency of land use zones used in Village Land Use Plans (VLUP) from household survey and village records were descriptively analysed. The implementation of village land use plans was not done as expected. Land use zones were insufficient in terms of the allocated size and needs within the zones for current and future situation. Overall the insufficiency of the land use zones was reported by 90% of the respondents. For individual land use zones the insufficiency was reported by the following percentages of the respondents: 95.0% for residential zone, 89.2% for agriculture zone, 96.7 for grazing zone, 25.2 for forest zone, 0% for wildlife management area, 0% for wildlife corridor and 0% for wetland. The reasons for insufficiency of the land use zones were increasing population, overstocking, and lack of infrastructure necessary within specific zones. Other factors included inadequate consideration for uncertainties in population projection standard, unclear zoning regulation and discrepancy in population data. Based on the findings and conclusions, this study makes the following recommendations. First, the National Land Use Planning Commission should devise mechanisms to ensure that all the six steps of land use planning are completed towards implementable land use plans. Secondly, the national land use planning commission should review zoning standards to sufficiently allocate the land use zones. The population projections used for future allocation of land had influence on the sufficiency of the zones where the rate of population increase is assumed to be fixed throughout the ten years implementation period without consideration of uncertainties. It is worth incorporating GIS to establish trend of land use and forecast future land use to sufficiently allocate land during the 10 years lifespan of the VLUP. Thirdly, the national land use planning commission need to validate spatial data and population data at village level to avoid discrepancies which affect implementation of the village land use plans.

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