scholarly journals Utilitarismos ou equidade? Dilemas éticos na política social e ambiental

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Queirós
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Free Lunch ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Value Choices ◽  
The Commons ◽  
No Free Lunch

UTILITARIANISM OR EQUITY? DILEMMAS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND LAND USE. The aim of this note is to stimulate discussion as to the criteria behind land use planning and the distribution of natural resources to achieve a sense of social well-being. When determining strategies on how to use these resources and other environmental services, considerations involving efficiency versus equity reveal value choices and contradictory opinions that we seek to question. Numerousexamples demonstrate that certain economic policy choices which affect environment and land planning are responsible for the emergence of predicaments known as the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ and the ‘tragedy of the commons’. ‘No free lunch’ belongs to a group of conservation laws that steers towards the painful awareness that traditional economic policy has still severe limitations.

scholarly journals Modernizing Ontario’s thermal energy system through integration of district energy into Ontario’s planning process.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Joseph Lee
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling

Energy is fundamental to the economic success and high quality of modern life because of its centrality to economic activity, comfort, and convenience. Significant opportunities for the environmental protection, economic development, and social well-being of communities can be found through the use of district energy systems over traditional means of heating and cooling for buildings. However energy considerations often come as an afterthought to land-use planning, inhibiting the capacity for greater district energy system use and development. The purpose of this work is to examine key components of the land-use planning process in Ontario, and provide recommendations to the provincial and municipal governments to better support district energy systems through land-use planning policies, plans, and tools.

IMPACT ANALYSIS OF LAND-COVER (GREENBELTS) CHANGE DUE TO CHANGES IN LAND-USE PLANNING

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Misha Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Green Belts ◽  
Effective Planning

The city and regions, which rely on their ecosystems, depends upon their health and availability. Changes to the usage pattern of these, as a process of urbanization, may bring economically positive impact but can be devastating for the ecology and social well-being of many groups of society. It is thus becoming increasingly important to measure these city resources in order to manage them effectively. The challenge is of appropriate land-use planning giving special consideration to natural systems which combines with the urban edges. This paper briefly analyses the green belt as a component of natural system and its role played in National Capital Region of a developing country (India) as an example. The attempt is made to identify the impacts due to changes in land-use planning on the green belt between two cities. Simultaneously, attention is drawn to the ways and situations, in which other functions can be incorporated within the green belts. These have helped to bring out potentials which can be considered for effective planning of green belt. The study is based on the evidence, case studies and it is suggested that appropriate planning may make green belts (GB) an effective planning tool but monitoring plays the most important role in their performance.

scholarly journals Integration of Ecosystem Services and Green and Blue Infrastructures Concepts in the Land Use Planning Process: The Coimbra Case Study

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Luís Valença Pinto ◽  
Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira ◽  
Paulo Pereira ◽  
Sander Jacobs ◽  
Ieva Misiune ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
National Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Eu

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) initiated in 2001 aims to assess the impacts of human pressure on ecosystem services (ES) and human well-being. Since then, the ES have been a worldwide concern, namely regarding to biodiversity loss and land use management (MA, 2005). The EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline Report stated that 65% of habitats of EU importance were in an unfavorable conservation status, mainly due to anthropic activities over time (EEA, 2010). As a consequence, in 2011, the EU adopted the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, requiring all Member States to actively work towards stopping the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services by 2020, and to restore ecosystems. ES are particularly relevant in urban areas, where most population is concentrated and expected to reach almost 70% of the total population by 2050 (UN-DESA, 2018). Strategically planned urban Green and Blue Infrastructures (GBI) can be designed and implemented in cities to effectively provide a wide range of ES, relevant to address urban sustainability and resilience to climate change, and thus effectively contribute to stop and revert ES deterioration and loss. However, the integration of ES and GBI concepts into national, regional and local policies and plans, and their effectiveness to implement the EU Biodiversity Strategy, is still a major challenge. This paper aims to analyze the horizontal and vertical integration of the ES and GBI concepts in the Portuguese policies and land use planning, at national, regional and local levels, focusing on the municipality of Coimbra. Among the 19 documents analyzed, most of them are defined at national level (12) and 6 of them are defined at local level. At the regional level, only one single plan is available, although it is still not officially approved and published, despite started being prepared in 1991. This regional situation mirrors the current status of the Portuguese administrative levels, which was triggered by the negative result of the 1998 referendum on the regionalization process. This referendum prevented necessary changes in the administrative divisions, so that current regional divisions do not reflect the economic, demographic and cultural realities of the country, having been emptied of administrative powers. The analysis shows a strong integration of the ES and GBI concepts at the national level, but the vertical coordination shows that plenty of work needs to be done to fully embrace the ES and GBI concepts. This research was performed in the UrbanGaia project, funded through the ERA-net BiodivERsA 3 2015 call under grants BRAIN-be BR/175/A1/URBANGAIA-BE (Belgium); 01LC1616A (Germany); S-BIODIVERSA-17-17-1 (Lithuania), and BIODIVERSA/0008/2015 (Portugal).

scholarly journals Participatory land-use planning for strengthening the village land resources management: a case study of Gorontalo, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 917 (1) ◽  
pp. 012007
Author(s):  
A Nursafingi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Forestry Management ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
The Village

Abstract Sustainable land management is crucial to ensure the availability of food, water, and clean air, especially to long-term support of human well-being and health. Continuous exploitation of land resources leads to land degradation and declines in agricultural productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This study aims to strengthen land resources management at the village level through a participatory land-use planning (PLUP) approach. The research location is at Moliliulo Village, Gorontalo. Current issues on land use and land management were collected using participatory rural appraisal (PRA) techniques. This information became a consideration in land use analysis conducted using a geographic information system (GIS). The approved future land use directions are about 88% forest (natural forest and agroforestry) and 12% non-forest (agriculture, coconut plantations, settlements, and water body). The land-use plan is essential for guiding the village government and the villagers on managing land resources. Additionally, it potentially strengthens the village development programs, social forestry management and resolves forest conflict. To ensure the implementation of land use planning, the village government should develop regulations on land use.

scholarly journals Modernizing Ontario’s thermal energy system through integration of district energy into Ontario’s planning process.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Joseph Lee
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling

Energy is fundamental to the economic success and high quality of modern life because of its centrality to economic activity, comfort, and convenience. Significant opportunities for the environmental protection, economic development, and social well-being of communities can be found through the use of district energy systems over traditional means of heating and cooling for buildings. However energy considerations often come as an afterthought to land-use planning, inhibiting the capacity for greater district energy system use and development. The purpose of this work is to examine key components of the land-use planning process in Ontario, and provide recommendations to the provincial and municipal governments to better support district energy systems through land-use planning policies, plans, and tools.

Land-use Planning: One Geologist's Viewpoint

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
E-An Zen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Current Source ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
A Current

Planning for the best use of land and its resources should take fully into consideration the long-term consequences of each type of use in order to stretch out most beneficially the well-being of society in the future, and to protect the integrity of the land and its biota. Three kinds of land-use can be distinguished for planning purposes. Reversible land-use leaves the land, after use, essentially as it was before; little or no man-induced modification remains. An example of reversible use in the United States is the designation of certain public lands as Wilderness. Terminal land-use commits the land to a chosen particular use, and any attempt at reversal requires either time-scales that are long compared with the expected lifespan of the social and political institution, or a commitment of resources that is too high for society to consider worth bearing. Examples of terminal land-use are location of metropolises and sites of toxic and/or radioactive waste disposals; by its nature the list grows monotonically. A current source of some social tension arises from the fact that Wilderness designation appears to assign a terminal-use status by legislative fiat, whereas in fact the land is being used reversibly.

scholarly journals Editorial Special Issue: Urban Freight, land use planning and public administration strategies

REGION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. E1-E3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Gatta ◽  
Edoardo Marcucci ◽  
Laetitia Dablanc
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Economic Trends

Well-being and economic growth are strictly correlated. Cities are the engines of an innovation-based economy where research and new ideas are the core input of production. Urbanisation is becoming synonymous of economic growth. People flock into cities, both in the developed and developing world, since here is where wealth is, where high quality services are available and life standards are comparatively higher with respect to other places. However, one has to acknowledge that growth also produces undesired negative effects. In fact, cities are net importers. They need to acquire consumption/intermediate goods, export production and get rid of waste. In other words, the existence of a city relies on a transportation system providing the necessary services for its functioning. The typical urban transportation system heavily depends on passenger and freight movements by road. While this dependency is, in some cases, less relevant for passenger transport, most of freight moved in, out, within and through a city relies on motorized road transportation. Trucks and vans are responsible for congestion, polluting emissions, accidents, noise, visual intrusion and stench. All these negative effects are concentrated where many citizens live and, consequently, produce relevant economic (e.g. time lost), environmental (e.g. air quality), and social (e.g. segregation) impacts. Cities to be attractive, sustainable and thriving need an efficient freight transportation system. Fast changing consumption patterns with the rise of e-commerce and home deliveries also point out to another dimension of cities: their need to adapt quickly to economic trends. The papers in this special issue address, from alternative points of view and using different methodological approaches, some of the relevant and critical issues pertaining to land use planning and administration strategies in modern cities with respect to the urban freight sector.

scholarly journals Navigating trade-offs in land-use planning: integrating human well-being into objective setting

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa M. Adams ◽  
Robert L. Pressey ◽  
Natalie Stoeckl
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Trade Offs
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