Land use and local environment affect macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization in Neotropical stream networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kele R. Firmiano ◽  
Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles ◽  
Cayetano Gutiérrez‐Cánovas ◽  
Diego R. Macedo ◽  
Marden S. Linares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Stream Networks ◽  
Neotropical Stream

scholarly journals Bioretention As A Control To Urban Drainage System With An Ecohydrological Base: GIS As A Tool On Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altair Rosa ◽  
Mario Procopiuck ◽  
Marina Batalini de Macedo ◽  
César Ambrogi Ferreira do Lago ◽  
David Sample ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Use Of Resources

Abstract The occupation and use of increasingly impermeable urban land have made it difficult to infiltrate water and, consequently, increase the volume of runoff in different cities, which has required the development of bioretention techniques in the field of hydrology. The aim of this article is to define and apply criteria for the identification of areas for the construction of Bioretention systems for evaluations based on Geographic Information System indicators, considering the aspects of quantity and quality in urban drainage . The developed method allows to verify and compare changes in the surface of urban areas and their interference in the local environment , the mapping of land use and occupation to simplify procedures to define and prioritize areas for the construction of Bioretention systems, the use of resources from georeferenced bases to resolve eco-hydrological issues. The study develops technical bases for the use of a georeferencing tool to analyze areas with speed and consistency as a basis for decisions on the implementation of Bioretention systems

scholarly journals Farmers 'Communication Patterns in Enhancing the Environment Ethnoecological Study of Ciparay Village District

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
R. Indriyati
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Close Relationship

Rural communities are communities that cannot be separated from the natural environment in which they live. The linkage is believed to be a process of environmental communication, especially how people interpret and behave towards natural phenomena and then that knowledge is communicated by their neighbors and passed on to the next generation. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to know and understand the communication patterns of farmers in interpreting the environment, especially in Ciparay Village, Leuwimunding District, Majalengka District. The research was carried out using a communication ethnoecology approach, and technically carried out with the ethnographic communication method. The results of this study indicate that the farmers' communication patterns in interpreting the environment in the Ciparay Village community, Leuwimunding District, are based on local traditions and wisdom which are the historical heritage shown in the form of agricultural land use. This is related to the Guar Bumi ritual activities as the annual routine village agenda carried out by the community as a form of gratitude as well as a request to the One-Time God who has caused rain, provides soil fertility, abundant harvest and the beauty of the village's natural environment. The meaning of the Guar Bumi Ciparay ritual emphasizes the importance of protecting the environment, traditions and village customs. All activities of agricultural land use are symbolic activities, full of meaning from the community and have important implications for the sustainability of people's lives and the local environment. Fertile land and agricultural land are believed to be part of the blessing and able to provide fortune to their descendants until now. The elements of the communicator play an important role, in which these elements have a separate position, in accordance with the social stratification prevailing in society. This social stratification turns out to have a close relationship as an environmental communication system that cannot be separated from one another. Through the communication ethnoecology approach, this research focuses on the core of communication science, namely symbolic meaning rooted in cultural and environmental aspects.

Effects of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Service Value in a Typical Tourist Area-A Case Study in Yangshuo, Guilin

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2646-2655
Author(s):  
Zhu Quan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Ecosystem Service Value ◽  
Service Value ◽  
Unused Land

Based on the data of land use in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2020, selected the typical tourist area Yangshuo and research the land use changes on ecosystem service value and then estimated the value change. Throughout the study period, Yangshuo County has been always implement tourism development strategy, the unused land substantially reduced and transformed into woodland, water body and wetland, which makes the ecological environment has been improved. The total value of ecosystem services in Yangshuo County was 1067.4 million Yuan in 1999, 1165 million Yuan in 2005, 1478.3 million Yuan in 2010, from 1999 to 2020, the ecosystem service values increased 1002.9 million Yuan, it is mainly due to the increasing areas of woodland, water body and wetland. The combined ecosystem service value of woodland and cropland was about 90% of the total value. The contribution of each ecosystem function to the overall ESV was greatest for soil formation and retention, followed by water supply, both of them contributing about 34% of the total value. Yangshuo County implement eco-tourism, landscape of leisure tourism and agro-tourism as the development strategy, it provides a strong protection to protect the local environment, and promote the ecosystem service values on the rise.

scholarly journals Bioretention As A Control To Urban Drainage System With An Ecohydrological Base: GIS As A Tool On Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altair Rosa ◽  
Mario Procopiuck ◽  
Marina Batalini de Macedo ◽  
César Ambrogi Ferreira do Lago ◽  
David Sample ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Use Of Resources

Abstract The occupation and use of increasingly impermeable urban land have made it difficult to infiltrate water and, consequently, increase the volume of runoff in different cities, which has required the development of bioretention techniques in the field of hydrology. The aim of this article is to define and apply criteria for the identification of areas for the construction of Bioretention systems for evaluations based on Geographic Information System indicators, considering the aspects of quantity and quality in urban drainage . The developed method allows to verify and compare changes in the surface of urban areas and their interference in the local environment , the mapping of land use and occupation to simplify procedures to define and prioritize areas for the construction of Bioretention systems, the use of resources from georeferenced bases to resolve eco-hydrological issues. The study develops technical bases for the use of a georeferencing tool to analyze areas with speed and consistency as a basis for decisions on the implementation of Bioretention systems

scholarly journals Geomorphic Hazard Map for Spatial Planning Purposes

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Taryono
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Hazard Map ◽  
Thematic Map ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Natural And Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Geomorphologic Hazard

In the planning of spatial lay-out oriented to environmental concept, it requires the information input conneting with the condition of local environment. This condition constitutes the features characteristic of the living space which consist of natural and social environment. One of the natural environment elements, neede to the spatial lay-out planning, is the dynamis geomorphology. The process of the dynami is some times accelerated and increased by natural and anthropogenic factors. The abnormality in both acceleration and the increase will cause a natural disaster, which is based on the landscape approach it is called the geomorphologic hazard. In connection with such event thematic map of geomorphologic hazard describes the disaster susceptibility of an area. The geomorphologic hazard map is an output map whose information is obtainable from thematic map conneting with population, land use, topography, geomorphology, rainfall, hydrological data, and slope classification. Both land use and population maps desccribes the anthropogenic factors. The role of the geomorphologic hazard map, in the planning of spatial lay-out and environmental management, i.e. preventive, represive, rehabilitative, and serves as the basis for interpretation and management of living spere. By putting geomorphologic hazard into map compilation of spatial lay-out (cultural and non cultural area map) a footstep advance is the reached to guarantee human security and their treasures, and human well-being as an integral part of human living prosperity.

scholarly journals Landfills as anthropogenic landforms in urban environment from Neamţ county

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Pollution

Landfills are the most common and easiest methods to dispose the municipalwaste in Romania and still prevails in current waste management options.This type of critical infrastructure was designed to dispose urban wastegenerated over years or even decades and ultimately led to creating newlandforms in the urban landscape. On the other hand, these sites are majorsources of complex pollution unfulfilling EU regulations, being scheduledto be closed. This paper aims to analyze landfills as anthropogeniclandforms by applying GIS techniques emphasizing them in a geographicalcontext and not only in situ. The location of these sites usually onalluvial plains of rivers leading to positive landforms that may changehydrogeomorphology dynamics or to be exposed to the floods. The other side,their location in hilly or mountainous regions increase vulnerability toother geomorphological process (gully erosion, landslide). Also, theextension of human settlements and land use is influenced by the presenceof such a site either it is closed. The implications of these landforms arevaried and must belinked to geographical realities from around. Thus, the mapping of theseanthropogenic landforms contribute to a better understanding of thesystemic interactions from the local environment. This approach may be animportant tool for EIA studies, in the process of rehabilitation,post-monitoring andreintegration of these landfills.

Urban Land Use and Health

Urban Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 262-271
Author(s):  
Rohan Simkin ◽  
Karen C. Seto
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

It is well established that local environmental conditions directly impact human health. As the world population and land surface both become increasingly urban, understanding the health consequences of urban land use–driven environmental change is critically important. Understanding these relationships is a necessary condition in planning urban development in ways that may be co-beneficial for both the environment and human health. Environmental influences on health include but are not limited to air pollution and asthma, access to green space and mental and physical health, and water pollution and water-borne diseases. However, it is not only the local environment that affects health; the regional and global environments also contribute to health outcomes. This chapter explores the interdependencies between regional and global environments and human health, using urban land use as an analytical lens.

Trip Generation Characteristics of Kindergartens in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishtiaque Ahmed ◽  
Tanweer Hasan ◽  
Izzul Ramli ◽  
Othman Che Puan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Educational Institute

Transportation planners need prior data on "Trip Generation" for new developments and for predicting changes in the trip generation due to modifications in the existing land use types. Trip Generation depends on various factors, especially the socioeconomic characteristics. Currently, transportation planners in Malaysia have to depend on the trip generation data of foreign countries because the data in the Trip Generation Manual of Malaysia provides inadequate information on many land use types including the Educational Institute type- “Kindergarten”. The major objective of the study was to study the "Trip Generation” characteristics for the "Kindergartens” in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The study included identification of the statistically significant parameters that are related to the trip generation rates. Data were collected from selected nine (09) kindergarten locations in Johor Bahru area. The data collection also included survey of stakeholders including information on the number of students, the number of staff, availability of the day-care facilities, school timings and number of shifts at the facility. The collected data provided information on the "Trip Generation" in local context and environment. Statistical analyses were carried out to establish relationships between the dependent variable and the independent variables. Linear regression models were developed which were found to be capable of predicting trip generations by the “Kindergarten” land use type. The models could be used by the professionals for the Johor Bahru, Malaysia local environment.  

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