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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"sustainable land use"”.
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Sustainable Land-Use Planning: The Integration of Process and Technology
… the planning process of a complex PSS called the Land use Evolution and impact Assessment Model (LEAM). The basis for this discussion is my experience in developing and applying LEAM to the planning process in a central Illinois community.
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Redeveloping big box sites toward a more sustainable land use
… affected big boxes, creating an opportunity to reuse and re-image many of these sites. Vacant shopping centers represent an expanding phenomenon that has been little studied. I survey examples of vacant superstores in the Boston region, and characterize their physical and neighborhood …
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Sustainable Land-Use Management for the Conservation of the Freshwater Pearl Mussel: Sediment Flux and Provenance
… mussel (FPM) populations are believed to be diffuse sediment losses associated with agriculture and forestry. The contribution of anthropogenic activity to river sediment load is of increasing global concern (Duerdoth et al. (2015). Excessive sedimentation of watercourses can reduce habitat …
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Motivations and incentives for pro-environmental behaviour: the case of silvopasture adoption in the tropical forest frontier
… of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, how land is used has an important role in buffering the primary ecosystem. Unsustainable small-scale cattle farming endangers soil quality and degrades the landscape. Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry that provides both ecological and livelihood …
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Urban Design Workshops: A System Model of Engagement for Sustainable Community Development
… to test the proposed model and applicability to sustainable land use at a site selected for the potential of transit-oriented development. The research addresses cities’ future growth and resilience, leveraging local and lived experience with professional and technical expertise. Keywords: Urban …
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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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Intensification of agriculture and livestock based on low carbon technologies in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
… are Brazilian biomes that have undergone intense land use and cover changes, marked by the loss of native forest and the expansion of agriculture and livestock. These are areas with potential use for intensification based on low-carbon technologies, but this change is still taking place slowly. …
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The Post-frontier: Land use and social change in the Brazilian Amazon (1992 - 2002)
… expansion of the agricultural frontier by small landholder farmers continues to be one of the major drivers of land use change in the Amazon region. Much of the recent research in the Brazilian Amazon has been focused on modeling their behavior in order to prescribe policies that can curb current …
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Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
… has been to provide empirical indicators of sustainable economic development. An economy is (weakly) sustainable if it saves more than the combined depreciation of its stocks of natural capital and produced capital. Thus, these indicators allow trade-offs where, for example, natural capital …
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Sheep in the Land of Fire and Ice- Socio-economic aspects of sheep grazing on highland rangelands in Iceland
… socio- economic aspects of sheep grazing on highland rangelands in Iceland in relation to sustainable land use practices by means of a literature review. Socio-economic aspects refer to the economic environment of sheep husbandry in Iceland, agricultural policies, laws and regulations on the …
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The Public Land Manager in Collaborative Conservation Planing: A Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies in Montana
… resources and rural lifestyles from previous non-sustainable land use practices and rural land development. This planning model has proven to be successful when organized groups consisting of multiple stakeholders come together to find common ground and address decreased biodiversity, fragmented …
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The Public Land Manager in Collaborative Conservation Planing: A Comparative Analysis of Three Case Studies in Montana
… resources and rural lifestyles from previous non-sustainable land use practices and rural land development. This planning model has proven to be successful when organized groups consisting of multiple stakeholders come together to find common ground and address decreased biodiversity, fragmented …
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Stadtentwicklung ohne Wachstum : zur Praxis kommunaler Siedlungsflächenentwicklung ; empirische Befunde und Folgerungen zu Steuerungsverständnissen und -formen öffentlicher Akteure
… The observed changes have led to an excess of unused or under-used areas and buildings in many cities. In many cases common mechanisms of re-using (in the real estate market) do not work any longer. As a result there are substantial vacancies in housing and industrial areas. This trends are …
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The Role of Private Landownership in Facilitating Sustainable Rural Communities in Upland Scotland
Privately-owned estates dominate Scotland’s uplands, and their owners’ decisions greatly influence rural communities. While the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 has altered power relations in rural areas, its impact on landowner-community dynamics has received little attention. Discourse on the …
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Impacts of mining on land use - A case (study) of Luanshya district, Zambia
… districts such as environmental pollution, landscape alterations, land degradation and social economic challenges to the host communities. This research looks at the landscape alterations in the mining district of Luanshya, and how these alterations are related to mining and other land uses. …
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Realizing sustainability : implementing a vision in Burlington, Vermont
… haphazard development (a.k.a. sprawl) causes numerous deleterious impacts on communities. Communities are beginning to recognize the consequences of sprawling development patterns and wish to shift those patterns to more sustainable land-use, economics, ecologies, human settlements, and …
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Linking Local Knowledge and Satellite-Derived Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Information In Krabi Province, Thailand
… conversion in three coastal communities in Thailand. It presents a methodology that could potentially aid coastal communities in determining sustainable land use conversion approaches by considering the viewpoint of villagers. A remote sensing analysis of Landsat satellite images from 1989, 2001 …
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Sustainable natural resource management in regional ecosystems : case studies in semi-arid and humid regions
… up-to-date environmental techniques for sustainable natural resource utilization in semiarid and humid ecosystems in short and long term. To achieve this goal, two studies were implemented. First, sustainable land use management was evaluated in a newly reclaimed, semiarid region in the …
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Using applied palaeoecology and participatory system dynamics modelling to investigate changes in ecosystem services in response to climate and social-ecological drivers within the middle berg river catchment, South Africa
Conservation and agricultural landscapes are social-ecological systems that co-produce ecosystem services, which change over time in response to environmental, biotic and social drivers. Failure to consider this variability, and the feedbacks that cause system instability, can have consequences for …
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