Changing Patterns of Settlement and Land Use in the Eastern Province of Northern Rhodesia. By George Kay. Occasional Papers in Geography No. 2, University of Hull Publications, 1965. Pp. viii, 108, maps.

Africa ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-101
Author(s):  
W. Allan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Changing Patterns

scholarly journals Changing Patterns of Land Use in Rural Hong Kong

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene N. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Changing Patterns

Surface energy balance algorithm for land-based consumption water use of different land use-cover types in arid-semiarid regions

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1497-1513
Author(s):  
Shereif H. Mahmoud ◽  
A. A. Alazba
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Surface Energy ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Surface Energy Balance ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Very High ◽  
Coastal Lowlands

Spatiotemporal distributions of water consumption for various land use-cover types over the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia were estimated using Surface Energy Balance Algorithm. Water consumption of various land use and cover classes shows similar seasonal dynamic trends. The spatial distribution of annual actual evapotranspiration (AET) shows low values in the Empty Quarter (231–438 mm/yr), and moderate values in the Eastern Province borders (439–731 mm/yr). Very high AET values were observed in irrigated croplands in the Northern plains, Hafar Al-Batin, the central coastal lowlands, and the southern coastal lowlands, where annual AET ranged from 732 to 1,790 mm/yr, representing the majority of the study area agricultural land. Evaporative behavior of land use-cover types indicated that irrigated cropland, which occupies 0.37% of the study area, has an average daily AET ranging from 9.2 mm/day in January to a maximum value in April (30 mm/day). Average annual water use by irrigated cropland is relatively very high and it is roughly 1,786.9 mm/yr, while water bodies, which cover 0.023% (121.2 km2) of the study area, also had relatively high mean AET (660.8 mm/yr). Overall, AET rates for irrigated cropland are much higher than for other land uses.

Expected Effects of Land-use Patterns on Future Supplies of Bushmeat in Africa South of the Sahara

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel O. A. Asibey
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

Bushmeat is meat, of whatever nature, that is obtained from wild animals, and historically people everywhere in the inhabited world have, at some stage in the evolution of their culture, been dependent on it to some extent. Wildlife conservation is essential for varied bushmeat production, and the two are particularly closely interconnected in the countries of Africa lying to the south of the Sahara; this brings in environmental conservation as a third factor of basic importance.The economic incentive being often considerable, the record of protection and management of wildlife in some countries in Africa south of the Sahara is impressive, though in others it is lagging, while even in the famous National Parks the failure to cull large mammals may lead to drastic habitat deterioration due to over-population: wider, regularized use of bushmeat could provide a beneficial answer to this problem. Meanwhile there is a great demand for bushmeat in Ghana and many other African countries, and it is expected that this demand—and hopefully the supply—will increase with changing patterns of land-use.There is thus strong economic and other justification for environmental management with the objective inter alia of maintaining and increasing bushmeat production in most countries of Africa south of the Sahara.

Fragmentation of Australian rangelands: processes, benefits and risks of changing patterns of land use

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Stokes ◽  
R. R. J. McAllister ◽  
A. J. Ash
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Rangeland Management ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Distributed Resources ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Expected Benefits

Pastoral development of Australian rangelands has been accompanied by fragmentation of land use, which has changed the scale at which humans and livestock access patchily-distributed resources in landscapes. These changes have tended to be targeted towards achieving narrowly defined policy or land management objectives, and have ignored the broader consequences for land use. We describe the processes of rangeland fragmentation, the factors that have driven these changing patterns of land use, and current trends towards enterprise consolidation and intensification, which continue to reshape the way humans and livestock use rangelands. Although there is growing interest in intensified systems of rangeland management, some of the benefits are uncertain, and there are several risks that serve as a caution against overoptimism: (i) intensification involves multiple simultaneous changes to enterprise operations and the benefits and trade offs of each component need to be better understood; (ii) if intensification proceeds without addressing constraints to implementing these management options sustainably then overutilisation and degradation of rangelands is likely to occur; (iii) further fragmentation of rangelands (from increased internal fencing) could compromise potential benefits derived from landscape heterogeneity in connected landscapes. Adaptation by the pastoral industry continues to reshape the use of rangelands. A broad-based approach to changes in land use that incorporates risks together with expected benefits during initial planning decisions would contribute to greater resilience of rangeland enterprises.

scholarly journals Urbanisation in Developing Economies: building cities that work

REGION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J Venables
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Coordination Failure ◽  
City Growth ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Very High

This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work.  The first argues that coordination failure can create multiple equilibria and divergent paths of development, some in which cities are internationally competitive and able to create jobs, others in which cities are stuck in a ‘nono-tradables trap’.  The second is a dynamic model of city growth, calibrated to changing patterns of land-use in Nairobi; the calibration suggests a very high cost of inefficient land use in the context of urban slums.

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