Author : M. V. Rao
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1498720013
Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in the world. The way people handle and use land resources impacts their social and economic well-being as well as the sustained quality of land resources. Land use planning is also integral to water resources development and management for agriculture, industry, dr
Author : United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Panel on Integrated Land Management
Publisher : International Development Research
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Basic needs
ISBN : 9780889368200
On Solid Ground: Integrated land management, science and technology
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0821365983
Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. 'Sustainable Land Management' provides strategic focus to the implementation of sustainable land management (SLM) components of the World Bank's development strategies. SLM is a knowledge-based procedure that integrates land, water, biodiversity, and environmental management to meet rising food and fiber demands while sustaining livelihoods and the environment. This book, aimed at policy makers, project managers, and development organization, articulates priorities for investment in SLM and natural resource management and identifies the policy, institutional, and incentive reform options that will accelerate the adoption of SLM productivity improvements and pro-poor growth.
Author : Ian Calder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136570780
'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scientist This updated and revised edition of The Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resources management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water: for food and other forms of economic production, for sustaining livelihoods, and for conservation, amenity, recreation and the requirements of the environment. It also advocates the means and methodologies for addressing them. A new chapter, 'Policies, Power and Perversity,' describes the perverse outcomes that can result from present, often myth-based, land and water policies which do not consider these land and water interactions. New research and case studies involving ILWRM concepts are presented for the Panama Canal catchments and in relation to afforestation proposals for the UK Midlands.
Author : Demetris Demetriou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319023470
This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background, design, development and application of a prototype integrated planning and decision support system for land consolidation. The system integrates geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence techniques including expert systems (ES) and genetic algorithms (GAs) with multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM), both multi-attribute (MADM) and multi-objective (MODM). The system is based on four modules for measuring land fragmentation; automatically generating alternative land redistribution plans; evaluating those plans; and automatically designing the land partitioning plan. The presented research provides a new scientific framework for land-consolidation planning both in terms of theory and practice, by presenting new findings and by developing better tools and methods embedded in an integrated GIS environment. It also makes a valuable contribution to the fields of GIS and spatial planning, as it provides new methods and ideas that could be applied to improve the former for the benefit of the latter in the context of planning support systems. “From the 1960s, ambitious research activities set out to observe regarding IT-support of the complex and time consuming redistribution processes within land consolidation – without any practically relevant results, until now. This scientific work is likely to close that gap. This distinguished publication is highly recommended to land consolidation planning experts, researchers and academics alike.” – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Thomas, Münster/ Germany "Planning support systems take new scientific tools based on GIS, optimisation and simulation and use these to inform the process of plan-making and policy. This book is one of the first to show how this can be consistently done and it is a triumph of demonstrating how such systems can be made operational. Essential reading for planners, analysts and GI scientists." – Prof. Michael Batty, University College London
Author : John F. McCarthy
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9814762083
Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the “Sovereignty of the People”, which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling provide solutions? Is the land reform agenda — legislated but never implemented — still relevant? How should the land questions affecting Indonesia’s disappearing forests be resolved? The contributors to this volume assess progress on these issues through case studies from across the archipelago: from large-scale land acquisitions in Papua, to asset ownership in the villages of Sulawesi and Java, to tenure conflicts associated with the oil palm and mining booms in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra. What are the prospects for the “people’s sovereignty” in regard to land?
Author : Erwin Hepperle
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : City planning
ISBN : 3728138037
Across Europe, land is constantly the subject of enormous and widely varied pressures. The land we have is shrinking in area due to numerous reasons, including those that are directly related to climate change and migration. In fact all disciplines that have responsibilities for the husbandry use, management, and administration of the land are forced to address the problems of how to plan and how to utilise this increasingly valuable resource. The papers contained within this book emerge from two symposia held in 2014 and 2015, which now have been arranged along four general themes reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of the disciplines concerned with land. The first part is dedicated to the interpretation of key terms in their context and the dissimilar conceptual approaches in the governance of different states. It is followed by papers that identify the process of decision-taking: how to organize and co-operate. One large section addresses the identification of land pattern changes and the reason for it. The papers in the final cluster deal with the general theme of strategies and measures used to steer future evolution in land policies. The publication addresses various needs that have to be balanced: the tasks of living space in the face of societal and demographic changes, infrastructure supply, challenges of an increasingly urbanised region, food production, ‘green energy’, natural hazards, habitats and cultural landscapes protection.
Author : Johan Woltjer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317080521
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such as housing, industry, environment and water. In other words, land-use planning and infrastructure management have become more spatially-oriented. This book brings together experts in the fields of spatial planning, land-use and infrastructure management to explore the emerging agenda of spatially-oriented integrated evaluation. It weaves together the latest theories, case studies, methods, policy and practice to examine and assess the values, impacts, benefits and the overall success in integrated land-use management. In doing so, the book clarifies the nature and roles of evaluation and puts forward guidance for future policy and practice.
Author : Berridge Lewinberg Greenberg Dark Gabor Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Alternative development standards would encourage development patterns which are more affordable, discourage sprawl, are environmentally responsive, support transit, reduce automobile dependency, and create more liveable communities. This report considers development standards at two scales: local and regional, with a focus on the latter. It begins with discussion of why alternate standards are needed and a literature review of the current state of development standards and related initiatives. It then presents case studies of four urban centres chosen to explore existing development standards, explore the relationship to urban form, and assess the current status of regional and local development standards in North America. Finally, it illustrates a new approach to applying development standards, using a fictitious community that portrays a fabric of rural concession roads, natural water features, and an existing village. Before and after plans illustrate the evolution of this community, planned according to an integrated approach.
Author :
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1552500497
On Solid Ground describes how the tools of science and technology can be used to find solutions to global land management problems. The key is integrated land management, which draws on the knowledge derived from the physical and social sciences and blends it with the wisdom of local communities, indigenous peoples, women, and others whose survival strategies have been based on a close connection to their mother Earth.
