Journal articles: 'Land use – Case studies'

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Lau, S. S. Y., R. Giridharan, and S. Ganesan. "Multiple and intensive land use: case studies in Hong Kong." Habitat International 29, no. 3 (September 2005): 527–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2004.04.007.

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Harasimiuk, Andrzej. "Soils and Chemical Cycling of Elements After Land Use Changes (Case Studies)." Miscellanea Geographica 13, no. 1 (December 1, 2008): 145–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2008-0014.

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Abstract The process of abandonment of arable land seems to be one of the main factors of changes in landscape and soil properties. This problem occurs on nearly 10% of arable land in Poland. The natural aspect of transformation is connected with the entrance of birch trees on uncultivated land and the anthropogenic aspect is associated with pine plantations. In the beginning, the appearance of trees on the former arable land changes soil properties because soil (and plant) is the most dependent component of the natural environment. In this paper, the role of birch and pine was analysed in comparison to arable land, abandoned land without trees and birch tree communities of different age. After the entrance of birch trees, soil profiles were enriched in nitrogen and elements such as aluminium, iron, cadmium, lead, cobalt, zinc, which were moved from the sod horizon of soil or come from the atmospheric load and were accumulated in litter or the humus horizon. Compared to arable land, some elements, e.g. calcium had lower concentration under birch trees. In comparison to cultivated land, birch and pine trees made the soil environment more natural, as expressed in the chemical properties of soil.

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de Jong, Lotte, Sophie De Bruin, Joost Knoop, and Jasper van Vliet. "Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies." Journal of Land Use Science 16, no. 3 (May 4, 2021): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423x.2021.1933226.

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Asante-Yeboah, Evelyn, George Ashiagbor, Kwabena Asubonteng, Stefan Sieber, Justice C. Mensah, and Christine Fürst. "Analyzing Variations in Size and Intensities in Land Use Dynamics for Sustainable Land Use Management: A Case of the Coastal Landscapes of South-Western Ghana." Land 11, no. 6 (May 31, 2022): 815. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11060815.

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Land use/land cover change (LULCC) studies are gaining prominence among environmentalist and land use planners. This is due to the effects of LULCCs on natural ecosystems and livelihoods. In the coastal landscape of south-western Ghana, there exist knowledge gaps in the variations in size and intensities in LULCCs and the degree of change among land cover types in LULCC studies. Such studies are important for identifying periods of rapid land cover transitions and their implications on the landscape. Using change detection, intensity analysis and informal stakeholder conversations, the land use system dynamics of the study landscape was analyzed over a 34-year period to assess the variations in size and intensities in LULC transitions and its implications. The results showed a dynamic landscape driven primarily by rubber and settlement expansions. Rubber and settlement increased threefold (172.65%) and fourfold (449.93%) in the 34-year period mainly due to rubber outgrower scheme and onshore infrastructural developments, respectively. Gains in rubber and settlement targeted arable lands. The LULCC implies local food insecurity issues, declines in ecosystem services and compromised livelihoods, hence, the enforcement of the Land Use and Spatial Planning Act (2016) is recommended in land use planning in the coastal landscapes of south-western Ghana.

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Rawal, D., A. Chhabra, M. Pandya, and A. Vyas. "LAND USE AND LAND COVER MAPPING – A CASE STUDY OF AHMEDABAD DISTRICT." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIII-B3-2020 (August 21, 2020): 189–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b3-2020-189-2020.

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Abstract. Land cover mapping using remote-sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years. Classification of land use and land cover is an advantage of remote sensing technology which provides all information about land surface. Numerous studies have investigated land cover classification using different broad array of sensors, resolution, feature selection, classifiers, Classification Techniques and other features of interest from over the past decade. One, Pixel based image classification technique is widely used in the world which works on their per pixel spectral reflectance. Classification algorithms such as parallelepiped, minimum distance, maximum likelihood, Mahalanobis distance are some of the classification algorithms used in this technique. Other, Object based image classification is one of the most adapted land cover classification technique in recent time which also considers other parameters such as shape, colour, smoothness, compactness etc. apart from the spectral reflectance of single pixel.At present, there is a possibility of getting the more accurate information about the land cover classification by using latest technology, recent and relevant algorithms according to our study. In this study a combination of pixel-by-pixel image classification and object based image classification is done using different platforms like ArcGIS and e-cognition, respectively. The aim of the study is to analyze LULC pattern using satellite imagery and GIS for the Ahmedabad district in the state of Gujarat, India using a LISS-IV imagery acquired from January to April, 2017. The over-all accuracy of the classified map is 84.48% with Producer’s and User’s accuracy as 89.26% and 84.47% respectively. Kappa statistics for the classified map are calculated as 0.84. This classified map at 1:10,000 scale generated using recent available high resolution space borne data is a valuable input for various research studies over the study area and also provide useful information to town planners and civic authorities. The developed technique can be replicated for generating such LULC maps for other study areas as well.

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Malandra, Francesco, Alessandro Vitali, Carlo Urbinati, and Matteo Garbarino. "70 Years of Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Apennines (Italy): A Meta-Analysis." Forests 9, no. 9 (September 8, 2018): 551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f9090551.

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Land use science usually adopts a case study approach to investigate landscape change processes, so we considered a meta-analysis an appropriate tool for summarizing general patterns and heterogeneous findings across multiple case studies over a large geographic area. Mountain landscapes in the Apennines (Italy) have undergone significant variations in the last century due to regional and national socio-economic changes. In this work, we reviewed 51 manuscripts from different databases and examined 57 case studies. We explored heterogeneous data sets, adopting a stepwise approach to select the case studies: Step 1, a general overview of the main studies; Step 2, an analysis of the features of the study sites and of land-use/cover transitions; Step 3, a landscape pattern analysis. We standardized the processing methods to obtain a new set of homogeneous data suitable for comparative analysis. After some pre-processing of the selected paper due to the broad heterogeneity of the data, we calculated common landscape metrics ex novo. We obtained digital images used to perform automatic segmentation with eCognition Developer 64 software. Our review indicated that most case studies were in Central and Southern Italy, 83% were examined at local scale, 77% carried out change detection, but only 38% included both change detection and landscape spatial pattern analysis. The results revealed a clear trend of forest expansion (+78%) and the reduction of croplands (−49%) and grasslands (−19%). We did not find significant changes in the landscape spatial patterns.

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van der Sluis, Theo, Bas Pedroli, Søren B. P. Kristensen, Georgia Lavinia Cosor, and Evangelos Pavlis. "Changing land use intensity in Europe – Recent processes in selected case studies." Land Use Policy 57 (November 2016): 777–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.12.005.

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Nwobodo, Tonia Nkiru, and Bright Emeka Ogbuene. "Effects of sand mining on land use/land cover on river environment in developing countries: A case study of Ava River in Enugu State, Nigeria." IKENGA International Journal of Institute of African Studies 22, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.53836/ijia/2021/22/3/003.

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Sand mining contributes immensely to economic development. However, this activity when carried out in a river environment can affect the land use and land cover of the area. The study objectives include mapping, quantifying and assessing the landuse/land cover (LULC) changes of Ava River from 2007 to 2019 and projection from 2020 to 2025 and 2031. The paper discusses pre-existing LULC maps from the past (2007, 2013 and 2019), present (2020-2025) and near future (2026-3031). The study used Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing data to estimate the changes in LULC of the study area in the various periods. The images were classified using a supervised classifier yielding three LULC maps of the Ava River environment. The classification grouped the area into six main LULC types. The result showed no change detection in the built-up area from 2007 to 2013 but increased by 26.15% in 2019. The mining area increased by 8.19% from 2007 to 2019.Riverbank also increased by 12.81% from 2007 to 2019.The correlation analysis used showed a positive relationship between the built-up area and sand mining as well as the river bank morphology. In 2019, sand mining activities in the Ava River site covered an area of approximately 389325.60 m2 and it was predicted that in 2025 and 2031, the affected area would increase to 485397.12m2 and 611753.52m2 respectively. The study reveals that sand mining activities in the Ava River environment are causing the river bank to widen. This may have an adverse effect on the erected buildings very close to the riverbank in the near future if not controlled. The study showed significant change detection across the periods. These detected changes would serve as a scientific basis upon which decisionmakers can design policy guidelines on sand mining, river environment protection, conservation and management in developing countries.

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Zhang, Ying, and Lixin Sun. "Spatial-temporal impacts of urban land use land cover on land surface temperature: Case studies of two Canadian urban areas." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 75 (March 2019): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.10.005.

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Botticini, Francesco, Armands Auzins, Peter Lacoere, Odette Lewis, and Michela Tiboni. "Land Take and Value Capture: Towards More Efficient Land Use." Sustainability 14, no. 2 (January 11, 2022): 778. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14020778.

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The paper aims to explore the possibilities to enhance the efficiency of land use, considering the evolution of land take (LT), and proposes the use of public value capture (PVC) instruments in selected differently experienced countries. This answers two fundamental questions. How is the concept of LT positioned in relation to the environmental policy of Europe? Which PVC instruments could stimulate more efficient land use? The aim of this article is to identify which tools can guide the transformations of the urban environment by promoting more efficient land use. These tools have been identified in the mechanisms for capturing value as they can pursue the goal of a more attractive net LT. For these reasons, the article initially analyzes the spread of the problem of land consumption, at a European level, showing how this phenomenon is very diversified not only between individual states, but also within each nation. In addition, the knowledge system to define the main initiatives and actions aimed at orienting urban development in the direction of reducing land consumption is highlighted. Subsequently, the theoretical framework concerning the issues relating to the capture of public value in urban planning operations is illustrated. The case studies representing the various European contexts are then introduced, and for each case the dynamics of urban development were analyzed. It has been done in relation to the evolution of the regulatory apparatus of territorial governance and its transformations. On the basis of this analysis, indicators have been defined. Their goal is to allow comparing the results that emerged from the case study analysis, which would otherwise have been inconsistent. In this way, it is possible to demonstrate how land use is more efficient in countries where PVC tools are used systemically and how these tools make it easier to guide urban transformations in line with the principles of sustainable development.

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Shahraki, Abdol Aziz. "Planning for Simultaneous Regional/Urban and Tourism Development with Case Studies." Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research 2, no. 4 (September 18, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2104035.

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This research suggests optimal planning and designing techniques for tourism complexes in urban master planning. Firstly, it explains the importance of the tourism industry through the theories of scholars and experts. It also emphasizes the connection between the development of urban economies and the tourism industry. This helps integrate the tourism industry and comprehensive regional/urban planning. It starts with planning and designing the tourism complexes in the early stages of the municipality’s master plan. This research paper suggests urban land-use policies and location techniques. This paper brings out land-use policies and centralized and symmetric urban design models for regional/urban sustainable development. It charts the following steps to meet the goal: determining a location for a tourism complex, setting a spatial table of required construction, preparing a land-use map, preparing a map album, developing investment and construction contracts. This paper assists civil engineers, urban and regional planners, tourism industry bodies, and students to develop rationally and optimally.

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Zhao, Yongqing, Rendong Li, and Mingquan Wu. "Correlation Studies between Land Cover Change and Baidu Index: A Case Study of Hubei Province." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 4 (April 9, 2020): 232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040232.

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Current land cover research focuses primarily on spatial changes in land cover and the driving forces behind these changes. Among such forces is the influence of policy, which has proven difficult to measure, and no quantitative research has been conducted. On the basis of previous studies, we took Hubei Province as the research area, using remote sensing (RS) images to extract land cover change data using a single land use dynamic degree and a comprehensive land use dynamic degree to study land cover changes from 2000 to 2015. Then, after introducing the Baidu Index (BDI), we explored its relationship with land cover change and built a tool to quantitatively measure the impact of changes in land cover. The research shows that the key search terms in the BDI are ‘cultivated land occupation tax’ and ‘construction land planning permit’, which are closely related to changes in cultivated land and construction land, respectively. Cultivated land and construction land in all regions of Hubei Province are affected by policy measures with the effects of policy decreasing the greater the distance from Wuhan, while Wuhan is the least affected region.

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Bičík, Ivan, Antonín Götz, Vít Jančák, Leoš Jeleček, Lucie Mejsnarová, and Vít Štěpánek. "Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Czech Republic 1845 - 1995." Geografie 101, no. 2 (1996): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie1996101020092.

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The article presents basic information on the long-time research programme dealing with long-termed land-use changes. This research programme is based on the land-use data of 1845, 1948, 1990, and 1995. It deals with issues marked by the International Geographic Union in 1995 as important part of the interdisciplinary research. Apart from the methodological process the article also outlines the evaluation of land-use structural changes at the district level by the index of change. This is an overall index reflecting all changes in the respective region. The case-study of Semily District verifies the methodology used at the cadastral level and shows possible applications in detailed studies of the nature/society relations.

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Aumann, Craig, Daniel R. Farr, and Stan Boutin. "Multiple use, overlapping tenures, and the challenge of sustainable forestry in Alberta." Forestry Chronicle 83, no. 5 (September 1, 2007): 642–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc83642-5.

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Public lands in Alberta are managed under the principle of multiple use. The two case-studies considered highlight the current and likely future impacts of this policy on forestry and other ecological values as development pressures continue to increase. Ultimately, sustainable forestry management in Alberta should not be about forestry policy alone, but a much broader land-use framework that embodies the principle of "envision–do–check–adapt." Key words: multiple use, management policy, cumulative effects, petroleum development, land use, interdisciplinary, adaptive management

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Lestrelin, Guillaume, Jeremy Bourgoin, Bounthanom Bouahom, and Jean-Christophe Castella. "Measuring participation: Case studies on village land use planning in northern Lao PDR." Applied Geography 31, no. 3 (July 2011): 950–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.01.003.

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Sahebgharani, Alireza. "MULTI-OBJECTIVE LAND USE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH PARALLEL PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM: CASE STUDY BABOLDASHT DISTRICT OF ISFAHAN, IRAN." Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering 10, no. 1 (August 23, 2016): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4090/juee.2016.v10n1.042049.

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Land use planning seeks to divide land, the most valuable resource in the hands of planners, among different land types. During this process, various conflicting objectives are emerged which land use planners should prepare land use plans satisfying these objectives and deal with a large set of data and variable. For this reason, land use allocation is a multi-objective NP-hard optimization problem which is not solvable by the current exact methods. Therefore, solving land use optimization problem relies on the application of meta-heuristics. In this paper, a novel meta-heuristic named parallel particle swarm is developed to allocate seven land types (residential, commercial, cultural, educational, medical, sportive and green space) to Baboldasht district of Isfahan covered by 200 allocation cells with size 1000 m2 for maximizing compactness, compatibility and suitability objective functions. Afterwards, the outputs of the new developed algorithm are compared to the outputs of genetic algorithm. The results demonstrated that the parallel particle swarm is better than genetic algorithm in terms of both solution quality (1.35%) and algorithm efficiency (63.7%). The results also showed that the outputs achieved by both algorithms are better than the current state of land use distribution. Thus, the method represented in this paper can be used as a useful tool in the hands of urban planners and decision makers, and supports the land use planning process.

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Sahebgharani, Alireza. "MULTI-OBJECTIVE LAND USE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH PARALLEL PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM: CASE STUDY BABOLDASHT DISTRICT OF ISFAHAN, IRAN." Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering 10, no. 1 (August 23, 2016): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4090/juee.2016.v10n1.42-49.

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Land use planning seeks to divide land, the most valuable resource in the hands of planners, among different land types. During this process, various conflicting objectives are emerged which land use planners should prepare land use plans satisfying these objectives and deal with a large set of data and variable. For this reason, land use allocation is a multi-objective NP-hard optimization problem which is not solvable by the current exact methods. Therefore, solving land use optimization problem relies on the application of meta-heuristics. In this paper, a novel meta-heuristic named parallel particle swarm is developed to allocate seven land types (residential, commercial, cultural, educational, medical, sportive and green space) to Baboldasht district of Isfahan covered by 200 allocation cells with size 1000 m2 for maximizing compactness, compatibility and suitability objective functions. Afterwards, the outputs of the new developed algorithm are compared to the outputs of genetic algorithm. The results demonstrated that the parallel particle swarm is better than genetic algorithm in terms of both solution quality (1.35%) and algorithm efficiency (63.7%). The results also showed that the outputs achieved by both algorithms are better than the current state of land use distribution. Thus, the method represented in this paper can be used as a useful tool in the hands of urban planners and decision makers, and supports the land use planning process.

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Taragi, R. C. S., and P. P. S. Pundir. "Use of satellite data in urban sprawl and land use studies - a case of lucknow city." Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 25, no. 2 (June 1997): 113–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03025909.

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Нежевело, В. В. "Procedural Guaranteeing of Tenants Rights in Case of Land Use for Farming." Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs 86, no. 3 (September 24, 2019): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.32631/v.2019.3.03.

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The article is primarily aimed at the settlement of practical problematic aspects of realizing the procedural protection of the rights of the participants of leasehold land legal relationships. In order to protect the procedural rights of individuals during the settlement of land disputes, the author has analyzed legal scientific studies on the realization of the rights of land tenants, who, as ordinary citizens of Ukraine, concluded land rental agreements necessary for them to create and maintain farms. The author has studied the state of scientific doctrine and legal guarantees in the sphere of ensuring the protection of the rights of the participants of leasehold relationships, including procedural one. The main problems and shortcomings of the current legislation on procedural guaranteeing of the rights of tenants of land plots used for farming have been outlined. It has been emphasized that disputes on the termination of land rental agreements and sometimes the simultaneous collection of rent arrears initiated by the authorities in relation to individuals – the tenants as parties to the agreement have the special status within land disputes, whereas legal entities – farm enterprises actually use the land plots. These disputes are relevant and widespread in the practical field, but at the same time they are hardly protected by the doctrine and are imperfectly protected by the norms of the current legislation, which originates to significant violations of the rights of the participants of leasehold land legal relationships. Thus, starting from 2018, within the framework of the judicial reform and the creation of a new Supreme Court of Ukraine, a prudent legal position began to emerge regarding the need to appeal in these situations to commercial courts within the economic jurisdiction and to file claims against farm enterprises, which as legal entities are the defendant in the case, being the actual user. Taking into account the above, the author has studied the scientific environment within the aspect of solving the issue of procedural guaranteeing of the rights of the tenants of land plots that are actually used by farm enterprises for conducting this activity. The author has also made an attempt to study the current legislation, focusing on the problematic aspects and gaps that need to be addressed by improving legal regulation.

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Gao, Yueer, Yanqing Liao, Donggen Wang, and Yongguang Zou. "Relationship between urban tourism traffic and tourism land use: A case study of Xiamen Island." Journal of Transport and Land Use 14, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 761–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1799.

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The development of tourism leads to changes in land-use demands and patterns, which are complex and dynamic, in tourist cities. Functional differences in land use produce different travel needs and have different impacts on traffic, especially on tourism. This paper explores the relationship between tourism land use and tourism traffic. Taking Xiamen Island as an example, using multivariable linear regression models, tourism land use is divided into accommodation land use, shopping land use and restaurant land use as the independent variables of the model; and the origin-destination (OD) density of traffic analysis zones (TAZs) during National Day in 2018 (October 1 to 5) is chosen as the dependent variable. To compare the different impacts between tourism land use and tourism traffic during the tourism and non-tourism periods, the non-tourism period (March 11 to 15) is further studied. The results show the following: (1) Xiamen, as a tourism city, has not only regular traffic but also tourism traffic, and traffic during the tourism period is totally different than that in the non-tourism period. (2) Tourism land use has a considerable impact on both tourism traffic and non-tourism traffic, but the impact is greater during the tourism period than the non-tourism period. (3) In the morning peak hour of both the tourism period and the non-tourism period, accommodation land use shows prominent effects on traffic. In the evening peak hour, shopping land use significantly impacts traffic. The study provides a basis for urban tourism land use adjustment to achieve the sustainable development of tourism traffic.

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Valent, P., P. Rončák, M. Maliariková, and Š. Behan. "Utilization of Historical Maps in the Land Use Change Impact Studies: A Case Study from Myjava River Basin." Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering 24, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjce-2016-0018.

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AbstractThe way land is used has a significant impact on many hydrological processes that determine the generation of flood runoff or soil erosion. Advancements in remote sensing which took place in the second half of the 20th century have led to the rise of a new research area focused on analyses of land use changes and their impact on hydrological processes. This study deals with an analysis of the changes in land use over a period of almost three centuries in the Myjava River catchment, which has an outlet at Šaštín-Stráže. In order to obtain information about the way the land was used in the past, three historical mappings representing various periods were used: the first (1st) military mapping (1764-1787), second (2nd) military mapping (1807-1869), and a military topographic mapping (1953-1957). The historical mappings have been manually vectorised in an ArcGIS environment to identify various land use categories. The historical evolution of land use was further compared with a concurrent land use mapping, which was undertaken in 2010 and exploited remote sensing techniques. The study also quantifies the impact of these changes on the long-term catchment runoff as well as their impact on flows induced by extreme precipitation events. This analysis was performed using the WetSpa distributed hydrological model, which enables the simulation of catchment runoff in a daily time step. The analysis showed that the selected catchment has undergone significant changes in land use, mainly characterized by massive deforestation at the end of the 18th century and land consolidation in the middle of the 20th century induced by communist collectivisation. The hydrological simulations demonstrated that the highest and lowest mean annual runoffs were simulated in the first (1st military mapping) and the last (concurrent land use monitoring) time intervals respectively with the smallest and largest percentages of forested areas.

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Mengesha, Ayelech Kidie, Reinfried Mansberger, Doris Damyanovic, and Gernot Stoeglehner. "Impact of Land Certification on Sustainable Land Use Practices: Case of Gozamin District, Ethiopia." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 9, 2019): 5551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205551.

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Agroforestry is attracting considerable attention in Ethiopia because of its potential for sustainable land use practices. As land tenure insecurity is a major limiting factor for sustainable land use practices in Ethiopia and developing countries in general, the Ethiopian government launched a rural land certification program to secure land tenure. There are limited empirical studies about the impacts of land certification on sustainable land use practices. To fill this knowledge gap, this study was outlined for an area in the Ethiopian Gozamen district. It investigates the impact of land certification on sustainable land use practices and is focused on factors affecting tree plantation based on a household survey, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observations. The results of the study showed that the majority of the respondents practiced sustainable land use practices after their land was certified. Therefore, land certification has a great contribution on sustainable land use practices. In addition, age, consultancy, land size, education, and nurseries proved as significant factors for tree plantation. As access to land is a basic socio-economic precondition for sustainable agriculture and forestry in developing countries, tenure security is a key pathway for the development of the poor and it contributes essentially to achieve sustainable development goals.

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Barry, Michael, and Lani Roux. "The Case Study Method in Examining Land Registration Usage." GEOMATICA 67, no. 1 (March 2013): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5623/cig2013-004.

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The case study method is appropriate for examining how and why landholders choose to use or not use land registration to effect transactions after first registration. The paper covers two related approaches to building theory that explains land registration usage behaviour. The methodologies may be extended to examining usage of other forms of land tenure information system (LTIS). Land titling and registration projects have proliferated in the developing world since World War II, often motivated by the theory that economic benefits will flow from the capital vested in the land that is freed up as a consequence of registration. Many of these projects fail to produce the desired results because the intended beneficiaries do not register transactions after first registration. Surprisingly, few studies investigate the reasons for the failure of land titling projects from the perspective of the intended beneficiaries. The case study method is suited to examine the strategies that landholders use to secure transactions. The advantages of case studies are that they may include all the data the researcher deems relevant, they emphasise the local context, and certain phenomena may be examined more deeply than other methods of inquiry allow. In case studies, researchers can examine issues at the grassroots level while at the same time incorporating the influences of local politics, social change, land administration agency behaviour and the influence of local and national law and policy.

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Zecca, Francesco, and Marco D'Errico. "Food security and land use: The Ethiopian case." Economia agro-alimentare, no. 2 (July 2021): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ecag2-2021oa12211.

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From the financial crisis of 2008, international investors have addressed their attention to new investment and expansion opportunities and have acquired millions of hectares of land in various parts of the world. Developing Countries are the main target for such Large-Scale Land Acquisition (LSLA). While the adverse effects of these land grab are well known, their implications on food security have been less studied. In the context of an increasing disequilibrium between local food needs and international investors goals, the examining the potential adverse effects of LSLA on food security become an increasingly pressing matter. The paper illustrates an in-depth analysis on the impacts of LSLA on food security in Ethiopia. The results indicate that if the entire area of the acquired land is assumed to be used for domestic food production, it could feed around 7.1 million people.

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Adjei, Eugene, Wenying Li, Lana Narine, and Yaoqi Zhang. "What Drives Land Use Change in the Southern U.S.? A Case Study of Alabama." Forests 14, no. 2 (January 17, 2023): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14020171.

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Land use change reflects fundamental transformations in society. To better understand factors contributing to current land use changes in Alabama, we expand on existing land use studies by employing a generalized least-square method nested in a system of equations for the analysis. We correct for endogeneity issues in our paper by incorporating a control function technique. Using repeated land use data from 1990–2018, we focus on analyzing factors affecting land use changes among timberland, agricultural, urban, and conservation land use types. Our results reveal that land quality factors influence land allocation and land use decisions. We also indicate that population density is a driver for replacing timberland for urban development and agricultural purposes. We show that interest rates are important factors in timberland use decisions as timberland investments are sensitive to capital cost. We provide a basis for future simulations of nationwide land use changes under different economic and policy scenarios, as we offer new insights and contribute to the existing knowledge into public policies that are related to land use planning and management.

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Odell, Eric A., David M. Theobald, and Richard L. Knight. "Incorporating Ecology into Land Use Planning:The Songbirds' Case for Clustered Development." Journal of the American Planning Association 69, no. 1 (March 31, 2003): 72–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944360308976294.

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Kaufman, Sanda, and Janet L. Smith. "Implementing Change in Locally Unwanted Land Use: The Case of GSX." Journal of Planning Education and Research 16, no. 3 (March 1997): 188–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9701600303.

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Yu-Sheng, Lin, and Pi Ying Lai. "Developing a Sustainable Strategy for Coastal Lands: Case Study Taiwan." Open House International 43, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2018-b0004.

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All countries are addressing the drastic climate changes as high priority issues. The impact of climate change on coastal land use in Taiwan has been especially severe due to the country's long coastline. As such, developing strategies to promote the protection of coastal land is critical for the sustainable development of the land. At present, even though the central government has developed the relevant adaptation strategies and implementation plans in response to climate change. Due to the limited resources, determining which protection strategy should be implemented as a top priority will require a strategic evaluation for planning and reference purposes. While most of the existing literature on coastal land use has been focused on the establishment of a vulnerability index along with an analysis of adaptation strategies very little of the existing literature discusses research that has been conducted in relation to an in-depth analysis of climate change and coastal land use. Therefore, this study uses the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to conduct an exploration of coastal land use and protection strategy. The study compiled the literature and related data to establish five major assessment dimensions and 16 protection strategy evaluation indicators. After the empirical investigation and analysis, the findings demonstrated that the designation of coastal conservation areas is the most important aspect in terms of strategies to protect coastal land, followed by land subsidence control and the establishment of land disaster warning systems.

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Li, Li, Zhichao Chen, and Shidong Wang. "Optimization of Spatial Land Use Patterns with Low Carbon Target: A Case Study of Sanmenxia, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (October 30, 2022): 14178. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114178.

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Land use change is an important factor in atmospheric carbon emissions. Most of the existing studies focus on modeling the land use pattern for a certain period of time in the future and calculating and analyzing carbon emissions. However, few studies have optimized the spatial pattern of land use from the perspective of the impact of carbon emission constraints on land use structure. Therefore, in this study, the effects of land use change on carbon emissions from 1990 to 2020 were modeled using a carbon flow model for Sanmenxia, Henan, China, as an example. Then, the land use carbon emission function under the low carbon target was constructed, and the differential evolution (DE) algorithm was used to obtain the optimized land use quantity structure. Finally, the PLUS model was used to predict the optimal spatial configuration of land use patterns to minimize carbon emissions. The study produced three major results. (1) From 1990 to 2020, the structural change of land use in Sanmenxia mainly occurred between cultivated land, forest land, grassland and construction land. During this period of land use change, the carbon emissions from construction land first increased and then decreased, but despite the decrease, carbon emissions still exceeded carbon sinks, and the carbon metabolism of land use was still far from equilibrium. (2) Between 2010 and 2020, the area of cultivated land began to decrease, and the area of forest land rapidly increased, and land-use-related carbon emissions showed negative growth. This showed that the structural adjustment of energy consumption in Sanmenxia during the period decreased carbon emissions in comparison with the previous period. (3) A comparison of predicted optimized land use patterns with land use patterns in an as-is development scenario showed a decrease in construction land area of 23.05 km2 in 2030 with a steady increase in forest land area and a decrease in total carbon emission of 20.43 t. The newly converted construction land in the optimized land use pattern was concentrated in the ribbon-clustered towns built during urban expansion along the Shaanling basin of the Yellow River and the Mianchi–Yima industrial development area.

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Delphin, Sonia, Katherine A. Snyder, Sophia Tanner, Karim Musálem, Stuart E. Marsh, and José R. Soto. "Obstacles to the Development of Integrated Land-Use Planning in Developing Countries: The Case of Paraguay." Land 11, no. 8 (August 18, 2022): 1339. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11081339.

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Land-use planning identifies the best land-use options by considering environmental, economic, and social factors. Different theoretical land-use plan models can be found in the literature; however, few studies focus on its practical application and particular challenges in different contexts, especially in the Global South. We use expert surveys to explore the feasibility and relevance of integrated land-use planning and data acquisition in developing countries using Paraguay as an example. We identify the challenges of developing land-use plans and strategies to navigate these barriers to speed up its implementation. The results show that it might be difficult to develop an integrated land-use plan in the context of developing countries, mainly due to data availability, lack of political will, lack of stakeholder engagement, and insufficient financial and human resources. We also highlight examples of creative ways in which previous land-use planning projects and studies navigated these challenges, including stakeholder consultations, use of simpler models that required less data, prioritization of data collection, and engagement of decision makers throughout the process. We provide crucial information to improve land-use planning processes in Paraguay and across the Global South in areas with similar contexts and challenges that aim to develop in a more sustainable way.

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Bayık, Çağlar, Hüseyin Topan, Mustafa Özendi, Murat Oruç, Ali Cam, and Saygın Abdikan. "GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS USING REMOTE SENSING IMAGES: CASE STUDIES OF ZONGULDAK TEST FIELD." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B1 (June 3, 2016): 435–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b1-435-2016.

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Inclined topographies are one of the most challenging problems for geospatial analysis of air-borne and space-borne imageries. However, flat areas are mostly misleading to exhibit the real performance. For this reason, researchers generally require a study area which includes mountainous topography and various land cover and land use types. Zonguldak and its vicinity is a very suitable test site for performance investigation of remote sensing systems due to the fact that it contains different land use types such as dense forest, river, sea, urban area; different structures such as open pit mining operations, thermal power plant; and its mountainous structure. In this paper, we reviewed more than 120 proceeding papers and journal articles about geospatial analysis that are performed on the test field of Zonguldak and its surroundings. Geospatial analysis performed with imageries include elimination of systematic geometric errors, 2/3D georeferencing accuracy assessment, DEM and DSM generation and validation, ortho-image production, evaluation of information content, image classification, automatic feature extraction and object recognition, pan-sharpening, land use and land cover change analysis and deformation monitoring. In these applications many optical satellite images are used i.e. ASTER, Bilsat-1, IKONOS, IRS-1C, KOMPSAT-1, KVR-1000, Landsat-3-5-7, Orbview-3, QuickBird, Pleiades, SPOT-5, TK-350, RADARSAT-1, WorldView-1-2; as well as radar data i.e. JERS-1, Envisat ASAR, TerraSAR-X, ALOS PALSAR and SRTM. These studies are performed by Departments of Geomatics Engineering at Bülent Ecevit University, at İstanbul Technical University, at Yıldız Technical University, and Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation at Leibniz University Hannover. These studies are financially supported by TÜBİTAK (Turkey), the Universities, ESA, Airbus DS, ERSDAC (Japan) and Jülich Research Centre (Germany).

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Bayık, Çağlar, Hüseyin Topan, Mustafa Özendi, Murat Oruç, Ali Cam, and Saygın Abdikan. "GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS USING REMOTE SENSING IMAGES: CASE STUDIES OF ZONGULDAK TEST FIELD." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B1 (June 3, 2016): 435–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b1-435-2016.

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Inclined topographies are one of the most challenging problems for geospatial analysis of air-borne and space-borne imageries. However, flat areas are mostly misleading to exhibit the real performance. For this reason, researchers generally require a study area which includes mountainous topography and various land cover and land use types. Zonguldak and its vicinity is a very suitable test site for performance investigation of remote sensing systems due to the fact that it contains different land use types such as dense forest, river, sea, urban area; different structures such as open pit mining operations, thermal power plant; and its mountainous structure. In this paper, we reviewed more than 120 proceeding papers and journal articles about geospatial analysis that are performed on the test field of Zonguldak and its surroundings. Geospatial analysis performed with imageries include elimination of systematic geometric errors, 2/3D georeferencing accuracy assessment, DEM and DSM generation and validation, ortho-image production, evaluation of information content, image classification, automatic feature extraction and object recognition, pan-sharpening, land use and land cover change analysis and deformation monitoring. In these applications many optical satellite images are used i.e. ASTER, Bilsat-1, IKONOS, IRS-1C, KOMPSAT-1, KVR-1000, Landsat-3-5-7, Orbview-3, QuickBird, Pleiades, SPOT-5, TK-350, RADARSAT-1, WorldView-1-2; as well as radar data i.e. JERS-1, Envisat ASAR, TerraSAR-X, ALOS PALSAR and SRTM. These studies are performed by Departments of Geomatics Engineering at Bülent Ecevit University, at İstanbul Technical University, at Yıldız Technical University, and Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation at Leibniz University Hannover. These studies are financially supported by TÜBİTAK (Turkey), the Universities, ESA, Airbus DS, ERSDAC (Japan) and Jülich Research Centre (Germany).

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Huang, Han, Yang Zhou, Mingjie Qian, and Zhaoqi Zeng. "Land Use Transition and Driving Forces in Chinese Loess Plateau: A Case Study from Pu County, Shanxi Province." Land 10, no. 1 (January 13, 2021): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010067.

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Land use transition is essentially one of the manifestations of land use/cover change (LUCC). Although a large number of studies have focused on land use transitions on the macro scale, there are few studies on the micro scale. Based on the data of two high-resolution land use surveys, this study used a land use transfer matrix and GeoDetector model to explore the spatial-temporal patterns and driving forces of land use transitions at the village level in Pu County over a ten-year period. Results show that Pu County has experienced a drastic process of land use transition. More than 80% of cropland and grassland have been converted to forest land, and over 90% of the expansion of built-up land came from the occupation of forest land, cropland, and grassland. The driving forces of land use transition and its magnitude depended on the type of land use. The implementation of the policy of returning farmland to forest, or grain-for-green (GFG) was the main driving force for the large-scale conversion of cultivated land to forest land in Pu County. In the context of policy of returning farmland to forests, the hilly and gully regions of China’s Loess Plateau must balance between protecting the ecology and ensuring food security. Promoting the comprehensive consolidation of gully land and developing modern agriculture may be an important way to achieve a win-win goal of ecological protection and food security.

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Khasnabis, Snehamay. "Land Use and Transit Integration and Transit Use Incentives." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1618, no. 1 (January 1998): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1618-05.

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Planners have often looked on transportation policies as a means of controlling broad patterns of land use. It has been argued that past transportation policies have contributed to decentralization of urban activities resulting in congestion, traffic hazards, and environmental pollution. Others contend that urban land uses reflect location decisions by individual households and employers and that transportation is just one of the many factors that affect such decisions. Thus, public policies in transportation have very little opportunity to alter future land use. The exact effect of transit on the distribution of urban activities, the resulting urban structure, the level of congestion, and air quality is not fully understood. An attempt is made in this paper to document successful cases of transit and land use integration as well as the techniques used by different agencies to bring about such integration. Various studies under the Transit Cooperative Research Program on different aspects of transit and land use policies serve as the basic sources of information for this paper. Eight case studies are examined that encompass a variety of transit modes in urban North America. It is concluded that the accessibility advantages provided by transit may play a crucial role in the concentration of development and in creating economic opportunities. However, transit by itself is not sufficient to guarantee successful transit-focused development. Other major factors are supportive regional and local policies and private investment in concert with the transit program. Further, successful transit and land use integration does not necessarily imply the presence of a high-speed rail system. In a strong market, when support policies are in place, light rail and busways can also be used to channel urban growth.

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Singh, R. B., and Chenchen Shi. "Advances in Observation and Estimation of Land Use Impacts on Climate Changes: Improved Data, Upgraded Models, and Case Studies." Advances in Meteorology 2014 (2014): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/748169.

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Global land use and land cover pattern has greatly changed in the past 50 years, which exerts direct or indirect influence on the climate change remarkably at both regional and global scales. Therefore, observing and estimating the land use impacts on surface climate is essential and has been continuously promoted by researchers. This paper explores the advancement in the models, data, and application for observing and estimating the land use impacts on surface climate and points out further research needs and priorities, which hopefully will provide some references for related studies.

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Kivinen, Mari, Pasi Eilu, and Mira Markovaara-Koivisto. "Mineral futures in land-use planning: Foresight tools and case studies in Northern Finland." Resources Policy 70 (March 2021): 101917. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101917.

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Sevenant, Marjanne, and Marc Antrop. "Settlement models, land use and visibility in rural landscapes: Two case studies in Greece." Landscape and Urban Planning 80, no. 4 (May 2007): 362–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.09.004.

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Gutiérrez, María Díez, Stig Nyland Andersen, Øyvind Lervik Nilsen, and Trude Tørset. "Impacts on Land use Characteristics from Ferry Replacement Projects. Two Case Studies from Norway." Transportation Research Procedia 10 (2015): 286–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2015.09.078.

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Andersen, Stig Nyland, Øyvind Lervik Nilsen, María Díez Gutiérrez, and Trude Tørset. "Impacts on Land Use Characteristics from Fixed Link Projects: Four Case Studies from Norway." Transportation Research Procedia 13 (2016): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.015.

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Wuelser, Gabriela. "Towards adequately framing sustainability goals in research projects: the case of land use studies." Sustainability Science 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-013-0236-2.

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Breetz, Hanna L. "Regulating carbon emissions from indirect land use change (ILUC): U.S. and California case studies." Environmental Science & Policy 77 (November 2017): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.07.016.

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Matso, Kalle E., and Mimi L. Becker. "Funding Science that Links to Decisions: Case Studies Involving Coastal Land Use Planning Projects." Estuaries and Coasts 38, S1 (June 4, 2013): 136–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-013-9649-5.

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Gupta, R. "The Pattern of Urban Land-use Changes: A Case Study of the Indian Cities." Environment and Urbanization Asia 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 83–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975425314521539.

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Argyraki, A. "ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES FROM GREECE." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 50, no. 1 (July 27, 2017): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11719.

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The contribution of environmental geochemistry to sustainable development is discussed through the presentation of different case studies from Greece. The aim is to demonstrate the impact of geochemistry to a variety of societal and economic areas such as the sustainable exploitation of natural resources, the assessment of environmental problems within cities and the sustainable remediation of contaminated land. Several examples of completed and ongoing research are provided including a pre-mining survey in Skouries, Chalkidiki, a geochemical background study in an area of serpentine, agricultural soil in Atalanti, the urban soil geochemistry of Athens and the use of natural minerals as amendments for the remediation of contaminated land. The paper concludes with some facts on opportunities and obstacles to development in the field of environmental geochemistry in Greece under the current economic crisis conditions.

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Barinaga-Rementeria, Itziar, and Iker Etxano. "Weak or Strong Sustainability in Rural Land Use Planning? Assessing Two Case Studies through Multi-Criteria Analysis." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 19, 2020): 2422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062422.

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This paper addresses the debate regarding weak versus strong sustainability in the field of rural land use planning. Both concepts correspond to opposing paradigms on sustainability and both their fundamentals of economic roots and comparative analyses from a theoretical point of view enjoy a contrasting trajectory. However, their inclusion in land use planning has been an issue not sufficiently studied despite their relevance in the field of local development and sustainability. The aim of this study is to shed light on this gap by exploring the assessment of the degree of sustainability in rural land use planning. To this end, two case studies involving forestry in the Basque Country (Spain) have been analyzed based on a multi-criteria analysis technique. As a result, we have observed the importance of setting thresholds in the valuations of the criteria, as well as the effect of varying such thresholds above the compensability degree.

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Ribeiro, Daniela, Nika Razpotnik Visković, and Andraž Čarni. "Landscape dynamics at borderlands: analysing land use changes from Southern Slovenia." Open Geosciences 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 1725–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geo-2020-0212.

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Abstract This study presents the results of an in-depth study on landscape changes over the last two centuries in the region of Bela krajina, south-eastern Slovenia. Since this region is situated along the Slovenian–Croatian border, immigration and emigration are permanent fixtures in the region. Due to historical reasons, population structure and land use changes occurred. With regard to these processes, two case studies were selected: settlements of Adlešiči and Bojanci. Adlešiči is a village mainly inhabited by farmers of catholic religion. Bojanci was colonized by Orthodox Uskoki, i.e. refugees from Ottoman Empire who become Habsburg soldiers who lived a military life and had different attitude towards land cultivation. Landscapes in these two settlements have its own distinctive patterns contrasting to each other in the land use, showing historically distinctive cultural landscapes. The study aimed to interpret the development of cultural landscapes in these settlements by analysing the land use changes and identifying the factors that influenced it. Even though these sites have different management regimes, they are both affected by difficult karst terrain and isolation. The results confirmed the land abandonment and overgrowth of agricultural land in both case studies, however, at different rates.

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Kim, J. M., J. S. Park, C. Y. Lee, and S. G. Lee. "PREDICTING OF URBAN EXPANSION USING CONVOLUTIONAL LSTM NETWORK MODEL: THE CASE OF SEOUL METROPOLITAN AREA, KOREA." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences X-4/W3-2022 (October 14, 2022): 113–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-x-4-w3-2022-113-2022.

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Abstract. As urbanization progresses, many studies about the analysis and prediction of land-use change and urban sprawl have been conducted recently. As the sprawl phenomenon progresses rapidly, the urban expansion phenomenon became uncontrolled and it has affected negatively on the city's environment and transportation finally. So, it is essential to identify lands likely to be urbanized in the future because it aids in establishing land use plans and policies pre-acting the negative impact of spatially urban expansion the sprawl by determining factors affecting the urban sprawl. Previous studies based on statistical models are limited to identifying determining factors, so the prediction performance is low compared to deep learning. On the other hand, existing studies using machine learning and deep learning overlook selecting specific region-focused variables. Therefore, this study aims to analyze and predict changes in the Seoul Metropolitan Area's sprawl in Korea using the Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Network (ConvLSTM) with factors at the city scale and neighboring factors at the local scale in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). ConvLSTM is a type of combination model: combining Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network(CNN). This study showed that ConvLSTM with factors at the city and neighboring factors at the local scale predicted the urbanized land. The determinants contain population and roads ratio at the city scale, and neighboring urban lands, distance to the nearest subway stations, slope, and elevation at the local scale. The results reveal that predicted urban lands in 2020 increase over the entire region. In particular, the expected urban lands in 2020 increase by reducing farmlands in the southern part of the SMA. It is consistent with the trend of urbanized lands from 1980 to 2010. In addition, urbanization occurs in areas adjacent to Seoul due to the well-established urban infrastructure. The results of this study can be used as evidence to establish sustainable land use plans and regulations in the future.

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Wu, Zhongrong, Xiulin Ye, Zhongfan Kuang, Hui Ye, and Xumao Zhao. "Positive Effects of Land Use Change on Wintering Bar-Headed Geese between 2010 and 2021." Animals 12, no. 22 (November 14, 2022): 3142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12223142.

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Human-induced land use change often drives species losses, yet some species can derive benefits from particular land use changes. Thus, case studies of how specific land use changes affect population size for species of interest are essential to their conservation. In this study, wintering bar-headed geese in Caohai, in Guizhou Province in China, were fitted with satellite trackers to assess their use of different land types and the impact of land use changes occurring between 2010 and 2021. We found that bar-headed geese preferentially spent time in arable lands, grasslands, and open water; most foraging occurred in cropland (59.5%) and grasslands (26.4%), while resting occurred in open water (68.3%) and in grasslands (43.5%). The population of wintering bar-headed geese in Caohai increased in size from 1366 to 2803 between 2010 and 2021. A concomitant decrease in cropland area (10.7%) and increase in open water (5.52%) and grasslands (48.45%) positively affected population growth. The use of abandoned croplands reduced human disturbance of goose foraging, while larger water and grassland areas provided more foraging and resting opportunities for bar-headed geese. Our study reveals a positive impact of recent land use changes on waterbird populations and provides a case study for managing human–wildlife relationships and protecting waterbirds and other wildlife.

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Roost, Frank, and Elisabeth Jeckel. "Post-Fordist Production and Urban Industrial Land Use Patterns." Urban Planning 6, no. 3 (September 23, 2021): 321–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4272.

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Economic restructuring of the 21st century is changing the production methods and location requirements of most industries. Mass production on the outskirts of cities, as was common in 20th century Fordism, is largely being replaced by an economic model characterised by a multitude of networked small and medium-sized production sites as well as logistics facilities. In this article, we want to examine if this also creates the opportunity to combine some of the smaller industrial areas with the city as a whole and to initiate a transformation of these areas in favour of redensification and mixed use. Examining the case of Kassel, Germany, we take a closer look at the transformation processes from Fordism to post-Fordism and the possibilities for a smarter land use. In this largely industrially shaped region, younger companies such as the solar panel producer SMA are using new approaches in terms of urban planning and land use by building their low emission-factories on greyfields in an urban environment rather than on suburban greenfields. In our article, we survey selected industrial areas in Kassel and discuss their recent change as part of a broader development from Fordism to post-Fordism. Firstly, the study contains a theoretical discussion of commercial and industrial land-use patterns in both socio-economic models. Subsequently, an on-site analysis is carried out to determine the extent to which both economic models have influenced the use and shape of industrial areas in Kassel. Based on this analysis, we finally show criteria for how urban planning can help to ensure that this change is combined with an improvement in the spatial and design quality of the industrial areas and is meaningfully integrated into the sustainable development of the city region.

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Kasahara, Natsuki, Yutaka Gonda, and Nejan Huvaj. "Quantitative Land-Use and Landslide Assessment: A Case Study in Rize, Türkiye." Water 14, no. 11 (June 4, 2022): 1811. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w14111811.

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Currently, many studies have reported that many landslides occur in tea or rubber plantation areas. In these areas, it is important to make a landslide susceptibility map and to take necessary measures to mitigate landslide damage. However, since historical landslide distribution data and land use data are not available, quantitative landslide assessment measurements have not been made in many countries. Therefore, in this study, landslide distribution maps and land use maps are created with worldwide available satellite imagery and Google Earth imagery, and the relationship between landslides and land use is analyzed in Rize, Türkiye. The results show that landslides are 1.75 to 5 times more likely to occur in tea gardens than in forests. It was also found that land use has the highest contribution to landslides among the landslide conditioning factors. The landslide assessment, using a simple landslide detection method and land use classification method with worldwide available data, enabled us to quantitatively reveal the characteristics of landslides. The results of this study reveal that quantitative landslide assessments can be applied in any location, where relatively high resolution satellite imagery and Google Earth imagery, or its alternatives, are available.

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