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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Land use conflicts"”.
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A study of land use conflicts in Mapungubwe area
This study uses lens to understand conflict over the use of land and its resources in the Mapungubwe area. The main underlying assumption of the study is that various land use activities that are not compatible with each other lead to land use conflict. The aim of the study is to assess land use …
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Boulevards of Growth : Assessing the planned boulevardizations in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities
… Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities. Interest conflicts inside regional growth machines are typical and the examination of these interest conflicts and their effects on the city-region and its growth dynamics is the corner stone of this …
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Port of call or port of conflict: the evolution of the port of New York and New Jersey, port-city relationships, and the potential for land use conflicts on the Newark bay waterfront
… on Newark Bay; and 3) the potential for land use conflicts between the commercial port operations and redeveloping waterfronts for non-industrial uses. Research about the historical evolution of the Port of New York and New Jersey centers exclusively on the waterfronts and facilities on …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… which is an informal settlement, has created land use conflicts. The prevalence of these unresolved land use conflicts presents a challenge for settlement upgrading. Without resolving land use conflicts, settlement upgrading will be a challenge. The first objective of the study was to identify …
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Land conflict resolution mechanisms in Kalikiliki Settlement,Lusaka
… which is an informal settlement, has created land use conflicts. The prevalence of these unresolved land use conflicts presents a challenge for settlement upgrading. Without resolving land use conflicts, settlement upgrading will be a challenge. The first objective of the study was to identify …
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Issues and Conflicts in the Management of the Public Domain of the Saddle Mountains in Eastern Washington: A Case Study
… historic, and contemporary patterns of land use and their effects in the Saddle Mountains of eastern Washington. Federal laws and Indian treaties require that federal lands be managed to preserve natural and cultural resources while meeting the demands of private interests for economic …
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The Place of Private Property in Land Use Law: A Relational Examination of Ontario's Quarry Conflicts
Land use law structures the way we make decisions about how we live together and with the world around us. In doing so, it shapes our relationships not only with the people around us, but with the places we inhabit and encounter. This dissertation examines how land use law structures the relations …
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Exploring Symbolic Aspects Of Human-Environment Interaction In A Socially Constructed Coastscape: Sense Of Place In Coastal Maine
<p>This study uses ethnographic methods to investigate how people understand and relate to places in order to better understand the symbolic, meanings-based aspects of human-environment interaction. Through semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews, the research analyzes how stakeholders …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
Peasant-pastoralists land use conflict remains to be the most serious resource-use conflict in Tanzania. The study investigated the role of local authority institutions on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
Peasant-pastoralists land use conflict remains to be the most serious resource-use conflict in Tanzania. The study investigated the role of local authority institutions on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. …
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Land Use of Conflicts in Tulsa County, Oklahoma: Urban Expansion Vs. Petroleum Development
… of America's metropolitan areas is causing land use conflicts to develop in previously rural regions. These conflicts are intensified when economically valuable natural resources occur in areas undergoing urban expansion. An example of this problem is found in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, where …
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Seasonal distributions and interactions of cattle and wild ungulates in Maasailand, Tanzania
… of economic potential. Where they overlap, land use conflicts have arisen. This study was undertaken to determine aspects and areas of competition between cattle and wild ungulates in Maasailand, east of Tarangire Park. Subsistence pastoralism was the main form of land use and was the object …
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A Major Wind Farm Development in a Valued Natural Environment: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of public responses to a proposed wind farm on the Island Of Lewis, Scotland
… of onshore wind farms the number of rural land use conflicts has increased. This research used the proposed major wind farm on the Island of Lewis (the LWF) in Scotland as a case study to explore such contested perspectives of rural land use. This wind farm would have been located in a …
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A major wind farm development in a valued natural environment : a thematic discourse analysis of public responses to a proposed wind farm on the Island of Lewis, Scotland
… of onshore wind farms the number of rural land use conflicts has increased. This research used the proposed major wind farm on the Island of Lewis (the LWF) in Scotland as a case study to explore such contested perspectives of rural land use. This wind farm would have been located in a …
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The development and use of a land–use suitability model in spatial planning in South Africa
… systems to aid them in the development of land-use management policies and spatial development plans. It is crucial that these support systems be comprehensive, to encourage sustainable development in a proactive manner. One way to assist planners and governments in this crucial task, is by …
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Evaluating ecotourism in Mexico’s biosphere reserves – whale watching activities in the World Heritage Site of Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 1994-2002
… case study approach and 34 indicators was used to examine the socio-economic impacts of whale watching tourism in the Laguna San Ignacio (LSI) World Heritage Site - located within the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The framework measured both the …
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An evaluation of urban and rural land use change, conflict and competition
This study set out to evaluate the extent of land use change, competition and conflict in Polokwane city and in selected land restitution areas of Limpopo province. The methods of data collection and analysis included document analysis, triangulation of quantitative and qualitative survey methods, …
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Evaluation of rural land-use plans in protected area bio-networks in northeastern Tanzania
The application of rural land-use planning is seen by many in developing countries as a panacea for minimising land-use conflicts and for increasing the productivity of natural resources in African rangelands. However, this assumption has not been thoroughly tested in the context of wildlife …
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Social agency in alpine communal forests : local actors' interactions with communal forests and participation in communal forestry in the French and Swiss Alps
… that they tend to have multiple forest-related uses. Besides country and region based institutional variation of the region selected (between the French Haute-Savoie and the Swiss cantons of Valais and Vaud), we chose communes with varying socio-economic and land-use contexts, as well as …
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A stakeholder approach to ecologically sustainable tourism : the case of the Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria
… examination of planning process as it affects land use, including tourism. Indeed, the social and environmental impacts of tourism in Australasia have tended to be ignored in policy development (Hall et al 1997). Sub-optimal outcomes and the uncertainty engendered by costly and high profile …
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