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Van Niekerk, Elna. "Visual interpretation of ASTER satellite data, Part II: Land use mapping in Mpumalanga,South Africa." Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie 26, no. 4 (September 22, 2007): 247–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/satnt.v26i4.137.
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Since the initiation in 1960 of the era of satellite remote sensing to detect the different characteristics of the earth, a powerful tool was created to aid researchers. Many land-use studies were undertaken using Landsat MSS, Landsat TM and ETM, as well as SPOT satellite data. The application of these data to the mapping of land use and land cover at smaller scales was constrained by the limited spectral and/or spatial resolution of the data provided by these satellite sensors. In view of the relatively high cost of SPOT data, and uncertainty regarding the future continuation of the Landsat series, alternative data sources need to be investigated. In the absence of published previous research on this issue in South Africa, the purpose of this article is to investigate the value of visual interpretation of ASTER satellite images for the identification and mapping of land-use in an area in South Africa. The study area is situated in Mpumalanga, in the area of Witbank, around the Witbank and Doorndraai dams. This area is characterised by a variety of urban, rural and industrial land uses. Digital image processing of one Landsat 5 TM, one Landsat 7 ETM and one ASTER satellite image was undertaken, including atmospheric correction and georeferencing, natural colour composites, photo infrared colour composites (or false colour satellite images), band ratios, Normalised Difference Indices, as well as the Brightness, Greenness and Wetness Indices. The efficacy with which land use could be identified through the visual interpretation of the processed Landsat 5 TM, Landsat 7 TM and ASTER satellite images was compared. The published 1:50 000 topographical maps of the area were used for the purpose of initial verification. Findings of the visual interpretation process were verified by field visits to the study area. The study found that the ASTER satellite data produced clearer results and therefore have a higher mapping ability and capacity than the Landsat satellite data. Hence, it is anticipated that the use of the full range of the spectral resolution of the ASTER satellite data – which were not available for this study – in statistical pattern recognition and classification methods will enhance the value of the process. Statistical methods are often used to produce visual information which could be applied to prepare land-use change inventories. This should be addressed in future research projects. Should the Landsat programme be terminated, ASTER satellite data might provide the best alternative for a variety of research projects, but if the Landsat project is continued, the ASTER satellite data could be used very effectively in conjunction with the Landsat satellite data. Since it is foreseen that the ASTER satellite data will be available for at least the next 12 to 15 years, it will continue to provide exciting possibilities for the development of programmes to monitor land-use and land-use change. This could then be used by all three levels of government to reach their goals in terms of agricultural planning, town and regional planning and environmental management. These requirements are described in the Integrated Development Programmes (IDP) of the different local governments.
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Mundhe, N. "IDENTIFYING AND MAPPING OF SLUMS IN PUNE CITY USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-5/W3 (December 5, 2019): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-5-w3-57-2019.
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Abstract. In India, rapid growth of slums in urban areas, especially in metropolitan cities, has become a major problem for the planners and decision-makers. The slum expansion is mainly due to the rural-urban migration and pressure of the population on un-used, un-protected, and un-suitable public land. It leads to many issues like poverty, unemployment, lack of access to clean water, lack of durable housing, traffic congestion, environmental pollution, insufficient living area, inadequate sanitation, scarcity of land, inappropriate land use, skyrocketing land value and insecure tenure, etc. Planning controls are usually ineffective in slum areas due to lack of timely information and people having little regard for such things in the absence of any other alternative. In most of the municipal bodies, proper updated information/map of slums are not available, which, create a problem in the decision-making process. Thus, there is an imperative need to resolve above-mentioned issues with the help of Geospatial techniques. This paper aims to identify and mapping of slums in Pune City using Geospatial techniques. The slums were identified based on high-resolution satellite images such as Resourcesat-2 (LISS-IV) data with the help of visual interpretation and standard image processing techniques, i.e., image rectification, enhancement, and classification. Afterward, the database was created and labeled with the help of the GIS tool. In Pune, there is around 40 percent of the urban population resides in slums. Such a large proportion of slum population also adds to the burden of already scarce resources and on overall urban infrastructure. The entire slum population of the city was accommodated in a total of 477 slums of which 238 and 239 were declared and undeclared slums respectively. The most of the slums in Pune mainly occurred in the central part due to natural increases as well as migration. But, the peripheral areas it’s happen due to vacant land/open areas along to river, canal, railway line and hill slope. The study reveals that more than 200 slums are located near environmentally sensitive areas and encroachment activities are increased in southern part of the city i.e., Ambegaon Bk., Vithhal Nagar and Warje areas.
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Delmanto Júnior, Osmar, Sergio Campos, Lincoln Gehring Cardoso, and Zacarias Xavier de Barros. "DETERMINAÇÃO DA CAPACIDADE DE USO DAS TERRAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO MANUEL - SP." IRRIGA 8, no. 2 (August 22, 2003): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15809/irriga.2003v8n2p142-149.
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DETERMINAÇÃO DA CAPACIDADE DE USO DAS TERRAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO MANUEL - SP Osmar Delmanto JuniorSérgio CamposLincoln Gehring CardosoZacarias Xavier de BarrosDepartamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP. CP 237, CEP 18603-970. E-mail: seca@fca.unesp.br 1 RESUMO Esse trabalho objetivou a elaboração da carta de capacidade de uso das terras do Município de São Manuel - SP, visando o planejamento adequado da ocupação do solo, utilizado-se de Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG). A bacia situa-se entre as coordenadas geográficas 22º 28’ 20” e 22º 53’ 10” de latitudes S e os meridianos 48º 21’ 52” e 48º 48’ 00” de longitudes W Gr., apresentando uma área de 60.988ha. O mapa de capacidade de uso da terra do município foi elaborado a partir dos mapas de classes de declive e de solo, tomando-se por base as características de cada um e utilizando-se da tabela de julgamento de classes de capacidade de uso. As áreas da classe e subclasses de capacidade de uso das terras determinadas pelo SIG –IDRISI foram: IIe,s (22,64%); IIIe (8,62%); IIIe,s (15,83%); IIIs (29,97%); IVe (10,82%); VIe (3,95%) e VIIe (0,96%). Os resultados permitiram inferir que as subclasses mais significativas foram a IIIs e IIe,s. As classes de declive de 0 a 20% ocorrem em mais de ¾ do Município, sendo as áreas planas, as mais representativas, pois ocorrem em quase 1/3 da área total. O SIG mostrou-se uma excelente ferramenta para determinação da capacidade de uso da terra, demonstrando que a utilização do geoprocessamento facilita e agiliza o cruzamento dos dados digitais, permitindo seu armazenamento, que poderão ser utilizados para outras análises em futuros planejamentos geoambientais. UNITERMOS: Sistema de Informações Geográficas, unidades de solo, classes de declive, capacidade de uso da terra DELMANTO JUNIOR, O.; CAMPOS S.; CARDOSO, L.G.; BARROS, Z.X. LAND USE CAPABILITY DETERMINATION OF SÃO MANUEL MUNICIPALITY-SP 2 ABSTRACT The present work purposed a land use capability chart development from São Manuel Municipality-SP using a Geographical Information System - Idrisi aiming to contribute for a better territorial organization and soil occupation planning. The basin is located in the 22º 28’ 20” geographical co-ordinates at 22º 53’ 10” S latitude, 48º 21’ 52” and 48º 48’ 00” meridian of W Gr. longitude, presenting an area of 9180,12ha. The chart of the basin land use capability was elaborated from the soil and sloping class charts based on each one characteristics and using the class table of use capability. The class and subclass areas determined through the Geographical Information System IDRISI presented the following values: IIe,s (22,64%), IIIe (8,62%), IIIe,s (15,83%), IIIs (29,97%), IVe (10,82%), VIe (3,95%) and VIIe (0,96%). The results allowed to infer that the most significant sub classes were IIIs and IIe,s. The 0 to 20% sloping classes have occurred in more than ¾ of the district. Plane areas were the most significant since they occur in nearly 1/3 of the whole area. The Geographical Information System IDRISI has been an excellent tool to determine land use capability, specially related with geo-processing use. The later also facilitates the input, analysis and display of spatial environmental information as well as data digital storage which could be used for other analyses in further geo-environmental design. KEYWORDS: Geoprocessing, land-use capability, Geographical Information Systems.
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Zheng, Cai Gui, Dao Xian Yuan, Qing Yuan Yang, Xiao Cheng Zhang, Shi Chuan Li, and Yong Qing Wang. "Study on Reconstructing Chinese Territorial Planning System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 174-177 (May 2012): 3593–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.174-177.3593.
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This paper researches on the territorial system of urban and rural integration to provide reference resources for solving urban-rural dual economy and society structure and land-use management. Methods of documentary data and theory are applied. The result of study indicates that: (1) build up five-level territorial planning at national, province, district, county and regional level to strategically arrange land-use; (2) build up line planning of various types of land to manage scientifically and efficiently; (3) compile land reclamation planning at town-level, village planning to enrich land use detailed planning and promote operation of available; (4) form long-term territorial planning, five-year line planning and annual land use program. The conclusion of this paper shows that: (1) modify urban-rural planning law to unify the planning law provisions; (2) establish planning management committee to unify management of urban-rural territorial; (3) work out unified basic map and standard land classification to unify technical standard system; (4) improve the degree of public participation at different planning stage; (5) implement planning qualification management and industry access system and strengthen planning implementation and modification supervision management.
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McIntyre, Neil, Caroline Ballard, Michael Bruen, Nataliya Bulygina, Wouter Buytaert, Ian Cluckie, Sarah Dunn, et al. "Modelling the hydrological impacts of rural land use change." Hydrology Research 45, no. 6 (March 27, 2013): 737–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2013.145.
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The potential role of rural land use in mitigating flood risk and protecting water supplies continues to be of great interest to regulators and planners. The ability of hydrologists to quantify the impact of rural land use change on the water cycle is however limited and we are not able to provide consistently reliable evidence to support planning and policy decisions. This shortcoming stems mainly from lack of data, but also from lack of modelling methods and tools. Numerous research projects over the last few years have been attempting to address the underlying challenges. This paper describes these challenges, significant areas of progress and modelling innovations, and proposes priorities for further research. The paper is organised into five inter-related subtopics: (1) evidence-based modelling; (2) upscaling to maximise the use of process knowledge and physics-based models; (3) representing hydrological connectivity in models; (4) uncertainty analysis; and (5) integrated catchment modelling for ecosystem service management. It is concluded that there is room for further advances in hydrological data analysis, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis methods and modelling frameworks, but progress will also depend on continuing and strengthened commitment to long-term monitoring and inter-disciplinarity in defining and delivering land use impacts research.
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Zhao, Mei, Yi Min Nie, Jian Hua Zhang, and Yang Wang. "Study on Layout Suitability of Rural Settlement at County Level Based on GIS — A Case Study of Pingyi." Advanced Materials Research 361-363 (October 2011): 1170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.361-363.1170.
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The construction and development of rural is the basis of social harmony and stability. Suitability evaluation of Land is the early stage of land planning. At present, research on suitability evaluation in China is more focused on agricultural land and urban construction land than rural construction land. This paper take Pingyi County as an example, with the new round of land planning and site survey data, by using GIS spatial analysis function, carried out the layout suitability evaluation of rural settlement, offered solutions for solving the extensive land use problems in current construction of the rural settlement such as disordering,hollowing and “one household, multiple houses”, improving the “dirty, disordering and poor” phenomemon of village living environment, changing the lagging situation that all sorts of infrastructure and public facilities in the village, meanwhile provided a theoretical basis for the rural settlement planning in the new round of land planning and consolidation.
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Subakanya, Mitelo, Gelson Tembo, and Robert Richardson. "Land Use Planning and Wildlife-Inflicted Crop Damage in Zambia." Environments 5, no. 10 (September 28, 2018): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments5100110.
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Damage to crops from wildlife interference is a common threat to food security among rural communities in or near Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia. This study uses a two-stage model and cross-sectional data from a survey of 2769 households to determine the impact of land use planning on the probability and extent of wildlife-inflicted crop damage. The results show that crop damage is higher in GMAs as compared to non-GMAs, and that land use planning could be an effective tool to significantly reduce the likelihood of such damage. These findings suggest that there is merit in the current drive to develop and implement land use plans to minimize human-wildlife conflict such as crop damage. This is especially critical as Zambian conservation policies do not explicitly provide compensation for damage caused by wildlife.
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Kleef, H. van, and T. J. Linthorst. "Geographic information for land-use management." Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 34, no. 3 (August 1, 1986): 329–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/njas.v34i3.16786.
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Interest in non-urban areas in the Netherlands has greatly increased. This necessitates careful management, especially in rural areas which are affected by the influence of urbanization. Knowledge of the local situation is increasingly important. These trends have had a considerable impact on the development of land use planning and policy. The number of computerized information systems for geographic information has increased considerably. New techniques have been developed to collect and present geographic information, by means of digitizing maps and the use of drawing machines in direct communication with computers. The paper discusses the requirements of geographic information systems with special attention to linking of geographic data and flexible output. Finally, some developments in land use management are presented. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)
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Ho, Samuel P. S., and George C. S. Lin. "Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices." China Quarterly 175 (September 2003): 681–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741003000407.
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This article examines the evolution of China's land system in the past two decades. Since the early 1980s, China has altered its land use arrangements and introduced new regulations to manage land use changes. In the process the administrative allocation of land to users has been transformed into a complex hierarchical system of primary and secondary markets for land use rights. The changes in China's land system were adopted primarily for two reasons: to develop land markets to allocate land more efficiently and to protect agricultural land. An analysis of available data suggests that the development of land markets is still at an early stage, that the conversion of land to non-agricultural use continues but at a slower pace, and that illegal land use is pervasive. The article concludes with an assessment of the new land system and a discussion of some likely future changes.
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Appiah, Divine Odame, Felix Asante, and Bernice Nketiah. "Perspectives on Agricultural Land Use Conversion and Food Security in Rural Ghana." Sci 1, no. 1 (March 18, 2019): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sci1010014.v1.
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Rapid peri-urbanization has resulted in increasing demand for and pressure on peri-urban lands at the expense of agricultural lands. Households’ decision to convert from agricultural land uses to residential and commercial land uses is driven by a myriad of factors, ranging from social to economic, in the Asante-Akim South district of the Asante region, Ghana. The paper examined the effects of agricultural land use trade-off on food production in the district. Using a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods, 115 household respondents were proportionately sampled from three selected communities in the district, for the collection of data through the administration of questionnaires. The data were subjected to the Pearson’s chi-square, embedded in the SPSS V.16, to test for association among the variables. We report that the increasing rate of agricultural land uses conversions was as a result of increasing demand for residential and commercial land usage at the expense of agricultural land uses. Converting prime agricultural lands into other land uses was seen as profitable to agricultural expansion. A re-examination of the district land use plans by the Ghanaian Physical (Town and Country) Planning Department in tandem with the Lands Commission is therefore recommended.
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Biłozor, Andrzej, Szymon Czyża, and Tomasz Bajerowski. "Identification and Location of a Transitional Zone between an Urban and a Rural Area Using Fuzzy Set Theory, CLC, and HRL Data." Sustainability 11, no. 24 (December 9, 2019): 7014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11247014.
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Changes in land use, which accompany the development of towns, generate a transitional zone on the border between areas of urban and rural use, which—due to its complex (unspecified, fuzzy) land use—cannot be identified either as a rural or an urban area. In order to prevent the unplanned development, it should go according to plan, in line with the spatial order principles, making a coherent whole, taking into account all functional, socio-economic, cultural, as well as aesthetic factors and requirements. This paper describes studies and analyses of the fuzzy set theory applicability in studies of land use in areas around towns. The main aim of the study was to present the methodology, which employs fuzzy logic to identify and locate a transitional zone between rural and urban areas. This study dealt with the transitional zone at the junction of the urban and rural area and its parameters, which affect the type of land use. The attributes of the transitional zone were defined based on an analysis of current land use methods in areas under direct urbanisation pressure. The study was conducted in the city of Olsztyn (Poland) and on its outskirts, directly exposed to the impact of the developing city, with an area of 202.4 km2, within an 8-km radius of the city centre. The study determined the impact of individual forms of land use on the development of urban or rural use. The degree of each type of use—urban or rural—allowed for developing a fuzzy town and country model, identifying the urban investment border and its spatial dispersion, as well as identifying and locating the transitional zone between urban and rural areas. Moreover, land cover models based on the Corine land cover (CLC) data as well as high-resolution layers (HRL) impervious and canopy data were developed. The borders of urban investment determined on the basis of the fuzzy set theory assumptions, CLC, and HRL data were also identified and verified.
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Yin, Jie, Xu Zhao, Wenjia Zhang, and Pei Wang. "Rural Land Use Change Driven by Informal Industrialization: Evidence from Fengzhuang Village in China." Land 9, no. 6 (June 9, 2020): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9060190.
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This study investigates the spatial expansion process, the de facto land use change, and their endogenous driving forces in the village of Fengzhuang since the 1990s. Fengzhuang is a specialized village in Hebei, North China, in which above 80% of rural residents are engaged in the manufacturing of mahogany furniture. Land use data were extracted from a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) survey conducted in 2014–2015. The results suggest that the land in Fengzhuang has been expanding rapidly under the influence of the informal furniture industry. The villagers transform their residential areas into family workshops and factories for the production of furniture. Most rural areas officially marked as residential are, in effect, used for industrial production, resulting in the informality of land use and circulation. The in-depth survey also reveals that the informality of the furniture industry, the bottom-up process of land development, and the evolution of government regulation are the major reasons leading to the de facto change of land use in Fengzhuang. This study offers a microscopic perspective of land use change, which helps to explore the formation and change of rural land use and actual functions, as well as the mechanisms behind them. These findings are expected to provide some implications for improving rural development strategies, rural planning, and governance in China’s specialized villages such as Fengzhuang.
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Ustaoglu and Aydınoglu. "Regional Variations of Land-Use Development and Land-Use/Cover Change Dynamics: A Case Study of Turkey." Remote Sensing 11, no. 7 (April 11, 2019): 885. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11070885.
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. Population growth, economic development and rural-urban migration have caused rapid expansion of urban areas and metropolitan regions in Turkey. The structure of urban administration and planning has faced different socio-economic and political challenges, which have hindered the structured and planned development of cities and regions, resulting in an irregular and uneven development of these regions. We conducted detailed comparative analysis on spatio-temporal changes of the identified seven land-use/cover classes across different regions in Turkey with the use of Corine Land Cover (CLC) data of circa 1990, 2000, 2006 and 2012, integrated with Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. Here we compared spatio-temporal changes of urban and non-urban land uses, which differ across regions and across different hierarchical levels of urban areas. Our findings have shown that peri-urban areas are growing more than rural areas, and even growing more than urban areas in some regions. A deeper look at regions located in different geographical zones pointed to substantial development disparities across western and eastern regions of Turkey. We also employed multiple regression models to explain any possible drivers of land-use change, regarding both urban and non-urban land uses. The results reveal that the three influencing factors-socio-economic characteristics, regional characteristics and location, and development constraints, facilitate land-use change. However, their impacts differ in different geographical locations, as well as with different hierarchical levels.
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Hussnain, Muhammad Qadeer ul, Abdul Waheed, Khydija Wakil, Junaid Abdul Jabbar, Christopher James Pettit, and Ali Tahir. "Evaluating a Workflow Tool for Simplifying Scenario Planning with the Online WhatIf? Planning Support System." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 12 (November 26, 2020): 706. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120706.
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In an era of smart cities and digitalisation, there has been a noticeable increase in the development and application of planning support systems (PSS). However, a significant challenge in the broader adoption of these PSS can be attributed to the user experience, which includes the efforts required in pre-processing data. It has been observed that typically 80% of the PSS usage time goes into pre-processing, cleaning, and loading data—a significant barrier for new users. This research focuses on improving user experience by developing and evaluating a new workflow tool called EasyUAZ. This workflow tool directly supports the iterative data preparation needs of scenario planning with the Online WhatIf?—a widely used PSS to develop land-use suitability, demand and land-allocation scenarios. A comparative evaluation has been conducted to quantify the time taken for data preparation with ArcGIS, QGIS, and the EasyUAZ. The study found that EasyUAZ offers a time saving of 30%–35% when compared with other options.
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Arham, Ihsan, Sofyan Sjaf, and Dudung Darusman. "Strategi Pembangunan Pertanian Berkelanjutan di Pedesaan Berbasis Citra Drone (Studi Kasus Desa Sukadamai Kabupaten Bogor)." Jurnal Ilmu Lingkungan 17, no. 2 (September 9, 2019): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jil.17.2.245-255.
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Most of the agricultural sector activities are in rural area. Rural and agricultural development requires accurate spatial information so that accuracy in sustainable development planning can be attained. This study was aimed to determine the strategy of sustainable agriculture development planning in a rural area. This research method used a spatial data approach acquiring village imagery produced using a drone. The actual land use analysis used ArcGIS software through a participatory digitization process. Analysis of land carrying capacity using the approach of land availability and land requirements. The results of the analysis became a reference for compiling the direction of planning for sustainable agricultural village development. Analysis of alternative program priorities using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. The study found that agricultural areas dominated land use in Sukadamai Village with an area of 112,942 ha (42,693%). Land carrying capacity in Sukadamai Village was in a deficit with a comparison ratio of land availability (SL) to land requirements (DL) of 0.22. The strategy of sustainable agricultural development that can be done is the innovative application of effective and efficient land intensification. The program prioritized the criteria of social justice and maximized the government's role in realizing development goals.
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Jensen, John R., Fang Qiu, and Keith Patterson. "A Neural Network Image Interpretation System to Extract Rural and Urban Land Use and Land Cover Information from Remote Sensor Data." Geocarto International 16, no. 1 (March 2001): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106040108542179.
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Stevens, Daniel, and Suzana Dragićević. "A GIS-Based Irregular Cellular Automata Model of Land-Use Change." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34, no. 4 (August 2007): 708–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b32098.
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This study proposes an alternative cellular automata (CA) model, which relaxes the traditional CA regular square grid and synchronous growth, and is designed for representations of land-use change in rural-urban fringe settings. The model uses high-resolution spatial data in the form of irregularly sized and shaped land parcels, and incorporates synchronous and asynchronous development in order to model more realistically land-use change at the land parcel scale. The model allows urban planners and other stakeholders to evaluate how different subdivision designs will influence development under varying population growth rates and buyer preferences. A model prototype has been developed in a common desktop GIS and applied to a rapidly developing area of a midsized Canadian city.
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Kolejka, Jaromír, and Jan Pokorný. "Econet planning with help of GIS technology." Geografie 103, no. 2 (1998): 88–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie1998103020088.
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Geoecological and recent land use data have been evaluated from different standpoints in order to select the existing and to allocate the missing areal and linear elements of the ecological stabilizing network (econet) in the landscape on the local level. The project discussed in this article has been based on the GIS application used for multilayer data processing and result presentation supporting the decision-making process in the econet completion.
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Ho, Samuel P. S., and George C. S. Lin. "Non-Agricultural Land Use in Post-Reform China." China Quarterly 179 (September 2004): 758–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741004000578.
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Since the early 1980s the conversion of land to non-agricultural use has been arguably the most widespread and intense in China's history. The recent increase in non-agricultural land use has been caused largely by the rapid expansion of urban settlements and the construction of roads and stand-alone industrial sites. Among the factors contributing to these changes, rural–urban migration, urbanization and accelerating development are among the most important. Analysis of land use data from three coastal provinces suggests that variations in the share of land occupied for non-agricultural use among county-level administrative units can be explained largely by differences in population density, urbanization and level of development. While the conversion of land to non-agricultural use is bound to continue in the coming decade, recent institutional changes make it likely that future changes, particularly the encroachment on cultivated land, will be more restricted and better controlled.
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Gedefaw, Abebaw Andarge, Clement Atzberger, Walter Seher, Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, and Reinfried Mansberger. "Effects of Land Certification for Rural Farm Households in Ethiopia: Evidence from Gozamin District, Ethiopia." Land 9, no. 11 (October 30, 2020): 421. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9110421.
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Economic theory notes tenure security is a critical factor in agricultural investment and productivity. Therefore, several African countries’ development initiatives enabled land titling to enhance tenure security. This paper examines the effect of land certification on tenure security, land investment, crop productivity and land dispute in Gozamin District, Ethiopia. In addition, the impact of land certification on farm households’ perceptions and confidence in land tenure and land use rights is investigated. Face-to-face interviews with 343 randomly selected farm households, group discussions and expert panels are the sources of primary data. Quantitative data are analyzed using various statistical tools and complemented by qualitative data. According to the results, most farm households (56%) feel that their land use rights are secure after the certification process. Only 17% fear that the government at any time could take their land use rights. The majority of farm households (71.7%) identified a reduction of disputes after certification and land management practices improved from 70.3% before certification to 90.1% after certification. As key factors for the increase of terracing and the application of manure, the study determined total farm size, the average distance from farm to homestead, perception of degradation, access to credit, training to land resource management, fear about land take-over by the government and total livestock holdings. Crop productivity improved significantly after land certification. The results should encourage policy makers to minimize the sources of insecurity, such as frustrations of future land redistribution and land taking without proper land compensation. Land certification is the right tool for creating tenure security, enhancing farmers’ confidence in their land rights and—supported by a proper land use planning system—improving land-related investments and crop productivity.
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Denisova, Elena, and Viktoriya Silova. "Ecological and economic aspect of sustainable agriculture development on the basis of effective land use planning and land cadastral works." E3S Web of Conferences 254 (2021): 10011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125410011.
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Agriculture is a complex and unstable system, the successful development of which firstly depends on the purposeful and integrated interaction of natural, social and historical conditions. Land cadastral provision acts as a guarantor of agricultural production growth, builds a socially favorable environment for the development of economic processes planned by the state. The aim of the study was to substantiate the need to improve the organizational and economic mechanism of agricultural land registration, land management and land cadastral works. Degradation processes, which have become widespread in the territory of Staropoltavsky district of Volgograd region — deflation (20.8% of agricultural land area) and salinization (30.8%) have impact on living standards and population numbers. The presence of unused arable land in 67% of rural settlements indicates the inefficiency of the monitoring and accounting system, and the presence of 39% of low-productive land indicates the untimely implementation of rehabilitation and reclamation work. The established value of the cadastral land value specific indicator (CLVSI) determines the system of economic impact in the form of land tax, rent, and other payments. The CLVSI value does not correspond to the arable quality in 50% of territory. With the help of geoinformation technologies, the boundaries and area of 16 neighborhoods and 8 settlements within the Gmelinsky rural settlement were confirmed, the total area of which is 1359.0 ha. The decrease in area amounts to 1.0%. The discrepancy in land areas according to statistical data and estimate materials amounted to 38329 hectares or 68.5%.
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Sun, Xuesong, Zaisheng Zhang, and Yiye Zhang. "Factors Influencing Farmer’s Decision-Making Behavior on Rural Construction Land Transformation." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (November 19, 2018): 4288. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114288.
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In order to protect cultivated land and balance farmers’ needs and shortage of land, the Chinese government introduced policies to rearrange land use in rural areas. However, many problems, such as unused rural construction land and illegally occupied land, have occurred through implementing land use policies. Rural construction land transformation has been promoted to solve these problems. This transformation was designed to let farmers voluntarily transforming their idle rural construction land. Then, local government could rearrange village layout for developing cultivation, industry and green space. Therefore, in order to analyze the factors that influenced farmers’ decision-making behavior in rural construction land transformation, household surveys were conducted in four typical villages in Jizhou District. After using the Probit model to analyze the data, the results indicated that the willingness to settle in the city, the mode of housing resettlement, the mode of compensation, the rationality of the measurement standards, and the annual total household income positively affected the willingness of farmers to transform their rural construction land. The strong willingness to settle in the city dominated the other factors. Moreover, the age and amount of construction land, the method of construction land acquisition, and the amount of cultivated land negatively affected the decision-making behavior during the transformation of rural construction land. Based on the influencing factors, policy suggestions are proposed from the perspectives of establishing an orderly transformation mechanism, implementing priority transformation, and providing compensation for transforming rural construction land.
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Sava, Andriy, Borys Sydoruk, and Roman Voloshyn. "Management of rural territories land resources in decentralization conditions." Economic discourse, no. 3 (September 2019): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.36742/2410-0919-2019-3-3.
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Introduction. Under decentralization, there is a gradual transfer of powers and resources to local governments. In this case, one of the most urgent problem for rural areas, is the organization of rational land management from the position of financial support improving through the disposing of lands, and using available lands for community needs. Methods. General and special methods – monographic and abstract-logical, methods of generalization, comparison and analysis have been applied for data processing. Results. During the decentralization reform, it was found that 488 rural united territorial communities were formed, covering almost half the area of all UTCs created. In addition, nearly 800 village councils joint to the city-based UTCs. The ways of the redistribution of powers on the UTC land resources management are established at the expense of acquiring their own powers, obtaining delegated ones, as well as acquiring the rights of other institutions. Emphasis is placed on the benefits of managing land resources of rural communities at the local level. It has been determined that the applicable law restrict communal land use of UTC. At the same time, the importance of agricultural land outside the settlement transfer to the disposal of communities is emphasized. The importance of the land payment in the structure of local budget revenues is analyzed in detail, the key problems and contradictions that accompany the process of land management powers reallocation are identified. Suggestions are made to improve the rural communities land resources management through their inventory, accounting and monitoring, revision of rental rates for communal property, strengthening control over compliance with the terms of land use agreements, use of free lands in the interests of communities. Discussion. Further studies in this area are going to be aimed at developing a comprehensive mechanism for ensuring effective management of land resources in rural areas after the completion of decentralization. Keywords: land resources, rural territories, decentralization, united territorial communities, local governments.
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Li, Lingli, Jinjie Wang, Chaoxian Yang, and Chaofu Wei. "Implementation Process of General Land-Use Planning and Its Adjustment—A Case Study of Rongchang District in Chongqing, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 11 (May 25, 2021): 5639. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115639.
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General land-use planning has a critical role and a guiding significance for economic and regional social development. To increase the ability of planning to cope with regional economic changes in an orderly manner and to defend the legal status of the planning guidance role, this article takes Rongchang District as a case study. This study combines GIS spatial analysis to select speed indicators, the center of gravity offset theory, and the spatial fit model and analyses the implementation process and the adjustment situation of planning from the perspectives of ‘quantity’, ‘time’, and ‘space’. The main results are as follows: (1) The completion rate of cultivated land and the surplus rate of urban land show that planning can effectively guide the direction of land use, with the results of 101.9% and 15%, respectively. The difficulty of planning implementation lies in the control of rural residential land because the actual annual average withdrawal rate of rural residential land is less than one-third of the planned rate, with an actual withdrawal area of 97.22 hm2 per year on average. (2) The results of the spatial coincidence degree and the barycentric offset angle demonstrate that planning plays a prominent role in guiding the direction of land use, although deviations remain between planned and actual land-use demand, with values ranging from 0.9 to 1 and an angle of less than 30° between the implementation process and the target year. (3) From 2013 to 2015, the planning of the study area was adjusted 32 times with an area of 2301.7 hm2. This finding indicates that planning is characterized by frequent disorder and that the gap between land use and planning is alleviated at the cost of the planning authority. (4) The degree of the coincidence between the adjusted plan and the land-use change data decreased year by year, reaching 0.99 two years after implementation of the plan, which is closest to the actual land demand. Thus, general land-use planning can guide the direction of land use to some extent, and the adjustment of planning can alleviate the contradictions of land-use demand under the changes of economic development, but the disorder ignores the legal status of planning. Making regular dynamic adjustments to the plan can provide ideas for planning compilation and revision while maintaining economic benefits and guiding functions without losing legal status.
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Magsi, Habibullah, Andre Torre, Yansui Liu, and M. Javed Sheikh. "Land Use Conflicts in the Developing Countries: Proximate Driving Forces and Preventive Measures." Pakistan Development Review 56, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v56i1pp.19-30.
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This research aims to analyse land use conflicts mainly caused by infrastructural development projects in the developing countries. For this purpose, qualitative data is gathered which is frequently published on land use conflicts against the development related infrastructure projects in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan. It identifies and defines land use conflicts, their dynamic features and contestations. The results reveal as to how the conflicts have been germinated by the property and human right violators? Further, it also focuses on the governance roles and responsibilities, the institutional inconsistency towards justice, and the local population’s mistrust in the respective case study areas. The analysis concludes with an overview of the root causes and consequences of land use conflicts, by indicating as to how land use decisions for infrastructural settings have changed rural economy, and induced local population to displace and oppose the projects. Finally, the study proposes some preventive measures to manage such conflicts. JEL Classification: D74, O16, H54 Keywords: Conflict, Proximity Relations, Infrastructure, Developing Countries
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Xie, Wenhai, Wanfu Jin, Kairui Chen, Jilin Wu, and Chunshan Zhou. "Land Use Transition and Its Influencing Factors in Poverty-Stricken Mountainous Areas of Sangzhi County, China." Sustainability 11, no. 18 (September 9, 2019): 4915. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11184915.
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Previous studies have rarely revealed the characteristics and influencing factors of land use transformation (LUT) in poverty-stricken areas, where multiple actions of cultivated land protection are undertaken. The land use conversion matrix and Spatial Durbin Model were used to analyze the characteristics and influence factors of LUT based on remote sensing interpretation data of Sangzhi County in 2010, 2015, and 2018. The results demonstrate the following: (1) From 2010–2018, cultivated land, forest land, waters, and urban and rural construction land in Sangzhi County increased by 4.91%, 0.03%, 58.99%, and 55.63%, respectively, and grassland decreased by 13.32%. (2) Terrain, territorial, and traffic conditions were common influence factors of the land use type conversion (i.e., forest land to cultivated land, grassland to forest land, cultivated land to forest land, grassland to cultivated land, and cultivated land to urban and rural construction land). The conversion of land use type has a negative effect on the land use type conversion of adjacent townships. Territorial and traffic conditions affect the land use type conversion of adjacent townships. The results illuminate LUT at the township scale in mountainous areas and are beneficial to promoting the sustainable use of land resources and poverty alleviation.
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Hashim, Haslina, Zulkiflee Abd Latif, and Nor Aizam Adnan. "Land use land cover analysis with pixel-based classification approach." Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 16, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 1327. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v16.i3.pp1327-1333.
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<p>Rapid development in certain urban area will affect its natural features. Therefore, it is important to identify and determine the changes occur for further analysis and future development planning. This process will influence several factors such as area development, environmental issues and human social activities. The selection of remote sensing data and method will derive the accurate land use land cover maps. This research study accessed the classification accuracy of different classifier approach for land use land cover classification in urban area. The objective of this paper is to compare the accuracy of the classification for each technique used. The study was conducted in a highly urbanized area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The dataset used for this study is the multi temporal LANDSAT satellite imageries for the year of 2001,2006,2011 and 2016. The pre-processing and analysis of the dataset has been done using software ENVI 5.3. Five land use classes (Urban/built up area, Forest, Agriculture, Water Body and fallow land) were identify for classification process. The classification approach for this study is the supervised classification with two algorithms namely Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The overall accuracy and kappa statistic of the classification indicate that support vector machine algorithm was more accurate than maximum likelihood algorithm for five different time intervals.Therefore, this classification approach is acceptable and highly recommended for mapping the changes of land cover.</p>
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Korniienko, I., S. Korniienko, S. Moskalets, S. Kaznachey, and O. Zhyrna. "GEOINFORMATION SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED TEST PLANNING SUBSYSTEM." Наукові праці Державного науково-дослідного інституту випробувань і сертифікації озброєння та військової техніки, no. 3 (May 28, 2020): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.37701/dndivsovt.3.2020.07.
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The process of testing weapons and military equipment involves numerous manual labor-intensive operations. Such operations can be simplified by fully or partially automating the test planning stages, conducting them directly, and processing the test results. Feature of testing weapons and military equipment is the large amount of data that somehow has a spatial location. One of the modern tools of cartographic representation, processing and analysis of statistical data arrays that have spatial localization, geospatial modeling and situation forecasting is the technology of geoinformation systems.
The article substantiates the feasibility of using geoinformation systems as part of the weapons testing system and military equipment. The functional scheme of integration of the geoinformation component into the structure of the test automation subsystem is presented for geoinformation support of the processes of testing planning and processing of measurement results. An approach to the creation of geoinformation models of test sites is proposed, based on the use of methods of remote sensing of land and open Web-GIS resources. The list of functional modules of spatial data processing and analysis, which can be applied to the tasks of testing, is distributed in the geoinformation toolkit. Examples of typical spatial tasks that can be performed during test planning, direct testing, processing, and analysis of measurement results, if such data are spatially linked.
The use of geoinformation technology in the test system will provide an arsenal of qualitatively new methods of digital cartography, such as the technology of automated preparation of cartographic information in the accepted cartographic projections and symbols, mass processing of arrays of measured data, a wide toolkit of mathematical and cartographic methods and functions, features and functions own methods, algorithms and methods of statistical information processing, create and use object-oriented geoinformation data models, operate with a set of visualization tools for the best presentation of research and simulation results.
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Sirindhorn, H. R. H. Princess Maha Chakri, Korapin Srisuksawadi, and Siriwan Silapacharanan. "Land use/land cover map accuracy assessment of Landsat Thematic Mapper data using the DIMAPS image processing system for Narathiwat Province, Thailand." Geocarto International 5, no. 1 (March 1990): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049009354244.
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Sargeson, Sally. "Subduing “The Rural House-building Craze”: Attitudes Towards Housing Construction and Land Use Controls in Four Zhejiang Villages." China Quarterly 172 (December 2002): 927–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009443902000566.
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Why do villagers in China's most densely populated and productive agricultural regions use scarce farmland to construct housing? And why has the Chinese government, which has legislated to conserve arable land so as to ensure national food security, been unable to control housing construction in the countryside? Previous studies of the factors motivating the rural housing boom tend to explain this either as a reaction against insecure property rights in land and a speculative response to emergent market opportunities, or as a social mobility tactic. This paper presents interview and survey data from four villages in Zhejiang province that show that property rights in land do not affect villagers' housing construction and market incentives play only a minor role in propelling house-building. The social and demographic aspirations of families and the reconfiguration of rural households' economic activities are major stimuli of “the rural house-building craze.”
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Gichenje, Muñoz-Rojas, and Pinto-Correia. "Opportunities and Limitations for Achieving Land Degradation-Neutrality through the Current Land-Use Policy Framework in Kenya." Land 8, no. 8 (July 26, 2019): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8080115.
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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) land degradation neutrality (LDN) scientific conceptual framework underscores that LDN planning and implementation should be integrated into existing planning processes and supported by an enabling policy environment. Land-use planning, which requires the integration of different policy goals across various sectors concerned with land-use, can be an effective mechanism through which decisions with respect to LDN can be coordinated. Using Kenya as a case study, we examined current policy instruments that directly or indirectly impact on the use of land in a rural context, to assess their potential to implement LDN objectives. The qualitative content analysis of these instruments indicated that they are rich with specific legal provisions and measures to address LDN, and that there are a number of relevant institutions and structures across governance levels. However, the main shortcoming is the disjointed approach that is scattered across policy areas. Key policy improvements needed to support effective implementation of LDN include: a national soil policy on the management and protection of soil and land; a systematic and coordinated data collection strategy on soils; mobilisation of adequate and sustained financial resources; streamlined responsibilities, and governance structures across national, regional and county levels.
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SHEATE, W. R., R. P. EALES, E. DALY, J. BAKER, A. MURDOCH, C. HILL, U. OJIKE, and T. KARPOUZOGLOU. "SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AND SPECIFICATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A METHODOLOGY USING LAND USE/LAND COVER DATA AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 14, no. 01 (March 2012): 1250001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333212500019.
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The challenge for implementing an ecosystems approach to environmental decision-making processes, such as spatial planning, is to understand the range, nature and amount of ecosystem services currently provided and the potential for such service provision in the future. The ability to spatially represent ecosystems services is a critical element of the evidence base on which to make decisions about how physical space is used most effectively and sustainably, and the way people and activities are distributed at different spatial scales. This paper reports on the outcomes of a research project originally undertaken for the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which developed a methodology for mapping ecosystem services using GIS and readily available, existing land use/land cover datasets. Critical components of the methodology, in order to determine which datasets are appropriate for which services, are network analysis and stakeholder engagement techniques, to define the relevant typology of ecosystem services and their relationship to land use/land cover types. The methodology was developed and tested successfully in the context of green grid (green infrastructure) networks in a major UK regeneration area, the Thames Gateway, to the east of London, and its potential use in impact assessment further explored through a number of case studies.
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Sireni, Maarit. "When Urban Planning Doctrine Meets Low Density Countryside." European Countryside 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 189–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/euco-2016-0005.
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AbstractDrawing on an empirical analysis of Finnish local policy-makers’ views on land use planning aims in rural areas, this paper investigates local responses to the new national planning regulations set out by the Government. According to the new norms, a dense settlement structure should be promoted not only in urban centres but also in rural areas in order to curb climate change and improve the viability of communities. Based on the data obtained from an internet-based survey conducted by a regional newspaper in western Finland before municipal elections in 2008 and 2012, this paper shows that the majority of the local policy-makers challenge the new norms. They do not believe that sustainable development can be promoted by constraining building rights in the rural region characterised by a dispersed settlement structure.
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Ciupa, Tadeusz, and Roman Suligowski. "Użytkowanie ziemi a stabilność ekologiczna obszarów wiejskich województwa świętokrzyskiego." Roczniki Naukowe Ekonomii Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich 105, no. 1 (April 15, 2018): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/rnr.2018.105.1.2.
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The paper presents the impact of land use on the ecological stability of rural areas in the Świętokrzyskie province. The work is based on the data published by the Local Data Bank regarding 24 types of land use. According to the methodology used for calculating the ecological stability indicator, these types were divided into two groups: agricultural (with positive and negative characteristics) and non-agricultural. Typological classification of communes was done with the use of Hierarchical Cluster Analysis. Research results show that rural areas of the Świętokrzyskie province have generally low ecological stability indicator, but they are characterised by high spatial diversity. The assessment of rural communes based on the ecological stability indicator may thus be one of the elements taken into consideration while drafting various planning documents, including those related to the management built on the sustainable development principles.
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Vershinin, V. V., A. V. Fedorinov, and A. V. Dontsov. "The use of covariance matrices in laboratory processing of geo-environmental data of field survey for development projects of land use planning." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 350 (November 15, 2019): 012073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/350/1/012073.
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FIGUEROA, FERNANDA, VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ-CORDERO, JORGE A. MEAVE, and IRMA TREJO. "Socioeconomic context of land use and land cover change in Mexican biosphere reserves." Environmental Conservation 36, no. 3 (September 2009): 180–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892909990221.
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SUMMARYLand use/land cover change (LULC) is a major threat to natural protected areas worldwide. This paper explores the relationships between four estimated LULC parameters for 17 Mexican biosphere reserves (BRs) for 1993–2002 on a GIS platform, and ten socioeconomic factors obtained from census data. These relationships were tested through linear correlations and multivariate analysis. BRs showed lower human demographic pressure, but higher population dispersion, social marginality, percentage of rain-fed agriculture area, and dependence upon agriculture and cattle compared to nationwide values. BRs also varied in their indigenous population, and showed cattle overpopulation, and low immigration and road density. Socioeconomic factors explained 87% of LULC variation. High population and road density, cattle overpopulation and low percentage indigenous population were related to percentage of transformed area (2002). Conversely, small population and road density, large proportion of indigenous population and high dependency on agriculture and cattle, were related to the rate of change in transformed area (1993–2002). High human population growth and urban concentration occurred when BRs suffered higher LULC than their corresponding ecoregions. Including socioeconomic conditions prevailing in BRs and their influence on LULC in reserve management and rural development planning will improve strategies for the confluence of conservation and development goals.
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Caldas, Anildo, Teresa Pissarra, Renata Costa, Fernando Neto, Marcelo Zanata, Roberto Parahyba, Luis Sanches Fernandes, and Fernando Pacheco. "Flood Vulnerability, Environmental Land Use Conflicts, and Conservation of Soil and Water: A Study in the Batatais SP Municipality, Brazil." Water 10, no. 10 (September 29, 2018): 1357. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w10101357.
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In many regions across the planet, flood events are now more frequent and intense because of climate change and improper land use, resulting in risks to the population. However, the procedures to accurately determine the areas at risk in regions influenced by inadequate land uses are still inefficient. In rural watersheds, inadequate uses occur when actual uses deviate from land capability, and are termed environmental land use conflicts. To overcome the difficulty to evaluate flood vulnerability under these settings, in this study a method was developed to delineate flood vulnerability areas in a land use conflict landscape: the Batatais municipality, located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The method and its implementation resorted to remote sensed data, geographic information systems and geo-processing. Satellite images and their processing provided data for environmental factors such as altitude, land use, slope, and soil class in the study area. The importance of each factor for flood vulnerability was evaluated through the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). According to the results, vast areas of medium to high flood vulnerability are located in agricultural lands affected by environmental land use conflicts. In these areas, amplified flood intensities, soil erosion, crop productivity loss and stream water deterioration are expected. The coverage of Batatais SP municipality by these vulnerable areas is so extensive (60%) that preventive and recovery measures were proposed in the context of a land consolidation–water management plan aiming flood control and soil and water conservation.
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Vaccaro, Emanuele, Mariaelena Ghisleni, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Cam Grey, Kim Bowes, Michael MacKinnon, Anna Maria Mercuri, et al. "Excavating the Roman peasant II: excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)." Papers of the British School at Rome 81 (September 26, 2013): 129–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s006824621300007x.
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This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presents for interpretations of the Roman landscape.
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Apata, Temidayo, Kayode Ogunleye, Olusola Agboola, and Tope Ojo. "Heterogeneity of Agricultural Land Use Systems and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Relationship and Evidence from Rural Nigeria." Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics 13, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/aol.2021.130201.
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Several factors influencing rural-poverty in sub-Saharan-Africa, for all the factors, agricultural-land access/management and “culture of poverty” are quite dominant in literature. This study examines socio-cultural/economic factors influencing poverty and establishes linkages of heterogeneity of land-use systems. Farm-level cost–route surveys of cross-sectional national-data of 800 respondents were used for analysis. Data were analyzed by descriptive-statistics, trans-logarithmic model, and poverty-measures. Descriptive statistics depict land-ownership structure, farmer’s socio-cultural practices, and exploits of government intervention programs influenced agricultural-poverty. Trans-logarithmic coefficients results of short-run sustainability-index (SRSI), land-policy intervention variables and household-sizes are dominance factors. Also, SRSI indicated 0.69, suggesting that 69% of the farmers made unsustainable use of agricultural-land. Moreover, 92% of extremely poor respondents with large household-sizes (61.2%) seek their agricultural-land ownership by rentage, while those with land-titled documents constitute 78.6% of the non-poor. Public-policy interventions must take into account formalization of land-property rights in order to facilitate its transferability and boosting investment.
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BACON, PHILIP J., JEREMY D. CAIN, MICHAL KOZAKIEWICZ, MARCIN BRZEZINSKI, and ANNA LIRO. "PROMOTING MORE SUSTAINABLE RURAL LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY IN EASTERN EUROPE USING BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 04, no. 02 (June 2002): 199–240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333202000966.
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A Bayesian Network approach to developing effective policies for more sustainable rural land use and development is presented which: • incorporates several different stakeholder viewpoints • integrates and balances the results from different viewpoints, and thus facilitates compromise land use solutions • elucidates the main factors affecting stakeholders' decisions, on which policy levers will operate more effectively • allows differences between "expected change" and "observed change" to be understood as arising from uncertainty and variation about "the average situation" • demonstrates the crucial roles of beliefs and uncertainties in determining the preferred options of different groups • emphasises the need to know the beliefs and uncertainties of local land managers • incorporates public participation and social learning while such necessary data are gathered. The approach's merits for fostering pro-active policy design and subsidiarity, and for focusing the research needed to underpin rural policy are discussed.
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Indarto, Indarto, Rufiani Nadzirah, and Hadrian Reksa Belagama. "Mapping of Sub-Optimal Land Based on NDVI Sentinel 2a Value: Preliminary Study." Jurnal Presipitasi : Media Komunikasi dan Pengembangan Teknik Lingkungan 17, no. 3 (November 21, 2020): 194–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/presipitasi.v17i3.194-204.
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Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is one of the vegetation indices used to analyse vegetation density. This study presents the potential use of NDVI to map dry-marginal-agricultural land (Dry-MAL). The study conducted in the eastern part of Situbondo, which includes three districts, namely, Arjasa, Asembagus and Jangkar. Sentinel-2A (recorded in 2018) and 450 Control points (GCPs) are used as the primary input. The region is an area with distinctive climate characteristics, where the dry season is longer than the rainy season. Analysis using "SNAP plug-ins" and "QGIS". Research procedures include (1) data inventory, (2) data pre-processing, (3) data processing and (4) accuracy testing. The NDVI classification can distinguish six (6) classes of land-use, i.e., water bodies, residential areas, dry MAL, non-irrigated rural area, irrigated paddy fields, forest-plantations. The NDVI classification produces Overall and Kappa accuracy values = 66,9% and 61,6%. Although the overall and kappa accuracy is below the standard, however, the result will benefit for further research of index vegetation or soil more applied for the identification of Dry-MAL
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Lovita, Oktalia Triananda, and Resky Rusnanda. "Geographic Information System in Mapping Land Use in South Aceh District." Jurnal Inotera 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31572/inotera.vol3.iss2.2018.id56.
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The dawn of the age of computerization has opened up a new horizon and paradigm in the decision making process and dissemination of information. In the past difficulties arise when a large bulk of data representing of modeling a certain phenomenon was to be compiled because these data were often detached from each other. With Geographic Information System (GIS), the storing, administration, processing, manipulation, analysis and exhibition of important data in a system of information can be done with ease and speed. This study attempts to represent and model the available data of Sourt Aceh Selatan concerning its administrative boundaries, land, geology, land use and slope, Using ArcGIS 10.3, a GIS software that is capable to represent spatial data as well as attributes of the study areas. the results of rms error on landsat 8 oil images obtained mean 0.51, GIS technology in civil engineering work is normally used in the planning and preparation of a new land for the development of a housing complex.
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Rubakula, Gelas, Zhanqi Wang, and Chao Wei. "Land Conflict Management through the Implementation of the National Land Policy in Tanzania: Evidence from Kigoma Region." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 11, 2019): 6315. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226315.
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The land policy in Tanzania, which has been implemented since 1995, aims to resolve land-use problems. This study explored the implementation of land policy in rural Tanzania. A cross-sectional multiple data collection technique was performed during the period July–November, 2017 to examine whether the policy has addressed land issues, including land conflicts. The findings indicate a significant association between immigrants and land conflicts, thus implying an insecure land tenure. The results also show that the realization of land policy was hampered by insufficient budgetary allocation and too few land staff to spearhead the land policy and legislation requirements. In view of these findings, this article suggests that the government must mobilize the resources required for registering communal land and simultaneously reinforce the use of social institutions, cultural norms, and adjoining landowners in securing land rights. This decision will encourage the majority of rural landowners (peasants and herdsmen) to invest in their land for higher and sustainable production.
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Karg, Hanna, Rafael Hologa, Johannes Schlesinger, Axel Drescher, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, and Rüdiger Glaser. "Classifying and Mapping Periurban Areas of Rapidly Growing Medium-Sized Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Multi-Method Approach Applied to Tamale, Ghana." Land 8, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8030040.
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Periurban areas of growing cities in developing countries have been conceptualised as highly dynamic landscapes characterised by a mixture of socioeconomic structures, land uses and functions. While the body of conceptual literature on periurban areas has significantly increased over the past two decades, methods for operationalising these multi-dimensional concepts are rather limited. Yet, information about the location and areal extent of periurban areas is needed for integrated planning in the urban–rural interface. This article presents the results of a study aiming at classifying and mapping periurban areas along the urban–rural gradient of Tamale, a medium-sized city in Ghana. The study used a quantitative, multi-dimensional methodology involving the following as core elements: (1) a relative measure of how urban a place and its people are in terms of services, infrastructure and livelihoods (urbanicity index); (2) the diversity of households regarding their livelihoods and access to urban services; and (3) land use dynamics. Therefore, data from a household survey, as well as land use and other secondary geospatial data were collected and analysed at different spatial scales. The findings suggested that the periurban space consists of two main zones. Inner periurban areas are driven by urban expansion and the conversion of non-urban into urban land use is most visible here. These areas exhibit higher levels of socioeconomic diversity, compared to both rural and urban areas. Outer periurban areas are less dynamic in terms of land use change and exhibit lower building densities, and compared with rural areas, hold stronger links to the city related to the movement of people and goods. The spatial analysis revealed that periurban areas develop mainly along major transport corridors across administrative divisions, as well as in the form of periurban islands in the rural zone. This study set out to extend existing methodologies to map urban and periurban development in medium-sized cities in sub-Saharan Africa, useful for urban and regional planning beyond administrative boundaries.
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Husein, Haifaa, Oday Jasim, and Saja Mahmood. "Proposal of building a standard geodatabase for urban land use." MATEC Web of Conferences 162 (2018): 03024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201816203024.
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The digital technologies represented by digital processing programs, local data bases and satellite receivers system is a set of technologies made to organize the process of building descriptive field database, and conveying them to computers, in order to store, analyze and manifest data as well as upgrade and extract it in the form of digital maps, which represent an asset in any engineering and planning study. For a variety of types of mixed land uses and others land uses in the urban city, which cause great difficulty in how to build spatial Geodatabase in terms of frequency of the land use and overlap between land uses, the paper will find the proposed standard Geomatics techniques to get rid of these difficulties. The paper will tackle the engineering and survey methods which could reinforce manifestation of uses of logical database in urban areas. Lastly, the research concludes that relying on important field survey and digital references in preparing suggested criteria for field uses, in addition to the recommendations provided in this field for the post graduate and undergraduate students as well governmental specialized departments.
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Schwartze, Christian, Franciska Zander, Sven Kralisch, and Wolfgang-Albert Flügel. "Virtual Appliances for geospatial data management and processing in the Integrated Land Management System (ILMS)." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 49 (November 13, 2012): 59–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/49/2480.
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Virtualization is increasingly taking on a key role in various system architectures which follow new platform concepts like Software as a Service (SaaS). This trend addresses more instant and short-term environments and comes with new methods and strategies for the distribution of mainly complex application stacks not only in large IT infrastructures. The paper presents how a so called Virtual Appliance can be set up in order to operate in virtual server environments using hypervisor software like Oracle Virtual-Box. Using the example of two server-side components within the Integrated Land Management System (ILMS), it will be shown that the use of state-of-the-art methods, standardized tools and interfaces on servers enables different aspects of environmental system management, analysis and planning.
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Nebie, Elisabeth Kago, and Colin Thor West. "Migration and Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Burkina Faso: a comparative case study." Journal of Political Ecology 26, no. 1 (November 25, 2019): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23070.
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<p>In the Sahelian country of Burkina Faso, West Africa, population pressure, poor resource management, and reduced rainfall have exacerbated land degradation. A rapidly growing population coupled with high rates of internal rural migration and thirty years of desiccation have resulted in profound land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) throughout the country. In the Central Plateau and northern regions of Burkina Faso, land degradation has historically stimulated large-scale out-migration toward more fertile areas in the south. While some northern provinces are being rehabilitated by Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) projects, southern provinces, considered more "pristine", have been neglected. In recent decades, researchers have attributed the initiation of land degradation processes in southern regions to this influx of migrants from the north. This study presents an empirical controlled case study between two provinces to better understand the dynamics of migration and LULC. One province, Bam Province in the north, has long been a zone of departure while Sissili Province in the south has long been a destination zone. Using a regional political ecology framework, we integrate a time series of LULCC data with demographic census data and local narratives to compare migration and LULCC trends in Bam and Sissili from 1975 to 2013. We find that in-migration correlates with substantial and dramatic LULCC while out-migration is associated with only moderate LULCC. This controlled comparison also suggests that local land-use/land-cover change and migration dynamically interact. As environmental conditions in Bam improve and Sissili deteriorate, long-term trends of either out- or in-migration for either province stabilize, and can even become reversed.</p><p><strong>Key Words</strong>: Burkina Faso, LULCC, migration, regional political ecology</p>
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Nascimento, Nathália, Thales A. P. West, Jan Börner, and Jean Ometto. "What Drives Intensification of Land Use at Agricultural Frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game." Forests 10, no. 6 (May 29, 2019): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10060464.
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Land-use change results from the decisions of diverse actors in response to economic and political contexts. Identification of underlying decision-making processes is key to understanding land-use patterns, anticipating trends, and designing effective environmental governance mechanisms. Here, we use a scenario-based decision game to examine hypothetical land-use decisions among four groups of rural producers in the municipalities of Sinop, Guarantã do Norte and Novo Progresso in the Brazilian Amazon. We simulate changes in agricultural prices, production cost, and frequency of environmental monitoring (in situ inspections) to understand how land-use decisions are made and change with shifts in economic and governance incentives. Hypothetical land-use decisions vary across scenarios, but not across study sites; environmental law enforcement influence land decisions, but not to the extent of dominating market factors and not for all types of producers. Decision games cannot substitute approaches to explain behavioral responses from observational data. However, they can provide immediate feedback on behavioral hypotheses before comprehensive observational data becomes available and support the development of models for land-use policy planning at local and regional scales.
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Munthali, Maggie G., Nerhene Davis, Abiodun M. Adeola, Joel O. Botai, Jonathan M. Kamwi, Harold L. W. Chisale, and Oluwagbenga O. I. Orimoogunje. "Local Perception of Drivers of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Dynamics across Dedza District, Central Malawi Region." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (February 5, 2019): 832. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030832.
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Research on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) dynamics, and an understanding of the drivers responsible for these changes, are very crucial for modelling future LULC changes and the formulation of sustainable and robust land-management strategies and policy decisions. This study adopted a mixed method consisting of remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS)-based analysis, focus-group discussions, key informant interviews, and semi-structured interviews covering 586 households to assess LULC dynamics and associated LULC change drivers across the Dedza district, a central region of Malawi. GIS-based analysis of remotely sensed data revealed that barren land and built-up areas extensively increased at the expense of agricultural and forest land between 1991 and 2015. Analysis of the household-survey results revealed that the perceptions of respondents tended to validate the observed patterns during the remotely sensed data-analysis phase of the research, with 57.3% (n = 586) of the respondents reporting a decline in agricultural land use, and 87.4% (n = 586) observing a decline in forest areas in the district. Furthermore, firewood collection, charcoal production, population growth, and poverty were identified as the key drivers of these observed LULC changes in the study area. Undoubtedly, education has emerged as a significant factor influencing respondents’ perceptions of these drivers of LULC changes. However, unsustainable LULC changes observed in this study have negative implications on rural livelihoods and natural-resource management. Owing to the critical role that LULC dynamics play to rural livelihoods and the ecosystem, this study recommends further research to establish the consequences of these changes. The present study and future research will support decision makers and planners in the design of tenable and coherent land-management strategies.
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Dinka, Megersa Olumana, and Degefa Dhuga Chaka. "Analysis of land use/land cover change in Adei watershed, Central Highlands of Ethiopia." Journal of Water and Land Development 41, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jwld-2019-0038.
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Abstract Land use/land cover changes (LULCC) at Adei watershed (Ethiopia) over a period of 23 years (1986–2009) has been analysed from LANDSAT imagery and ancillary data. The patterns (magnitude and direction) of LULCC were quantified and the final land use/land cover maps were produced after a supervised classification with appropriate post-processing. Image analysis results revealed that the study area has undergone substantial LULCC, primarily a shift from natural cover into managed agro-systems, which is apparently attributed to the increasing both human and livestock pressure. Over the 23 years, the aerial coverage of forest and grass lands declined by 8.5% and 4.3%, respectively. On the other hand, agricultural and shrub lands expanded by 9.1% and 3.7%, respectively. This shows that most of the previously covered by forest and grass lands are mostly shifted to the rapidly expanding farm land use classes. The findings of this study suggested that the rate of LULCC over the study period, particularly deforestation due to the expansion of farmland need to be given due attention to maintain the stability and sustainability of the ecosystem.