scholarly journals Evaluation of the Reception Capacity of a Certain Area Regarding Tourist Housing, Addressing Sustainable-Tourism Criteria

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6422
Author(s):  
Jose Antonio Fernández Gallardo ◽  
Jose María Caridad y Ocerín ◽  
María Genoveva Millán Vázquez de la Torre
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Specific Analysis

The emergence of new 2.0 net collaborative economies has brought an increase in the number of tourists, changing the paradigm of the tourist-housing sector in the main cities around the world. This has directly impacted inhabitants and land-use planning, and there is no general agreement yet between different public and private agents on how to deal with the problem. In this document, a model supported by scientific approaches is presented to assist in planning for sustainable land use through assessing its reception capacity to host tourist housing. The area of study is a medium-sized city in Spain with four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The methodology is based on the application of the multicriteria decision paradigm in the geographical information systems’ field to deal with complex problems with several alternatives and various criteria to be evaluated. As a result, we obtained a classification of every part of the study area, depending on the reception capacity of the considered uses. The main conclusion is that tourist housing must be regulated, although its effects cannot be generalized, since specific analysis for every neighborhood in a territory is needed.

scholarly journals Foreign Tourists in World Heritage Sites: A Motivation-Based Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Menor-Campos ◽  
Jesús Claudio Pérez-Gálvez ◽  
Amalia Hidalgo-Fernández ◽  
Tomás López-Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
The City

The inclusion on the lists published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)—World Heritage Site (WHS), Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), and World Heritage Sites in Danger—suggests, first of all, the acknowledgement of something worth protecting and, secondly, an increase in the strength of tourist attraction to the affected destination, especially among specific visitors. The identification and classification of tourists that are seen to be more interested in heritage is the stated aim of this work, based on models already proposed in the scientific literature. For this purpose, a survey was conducted that interviewed a representative sample of international tourists visiting the city of Córdoba. A multi-variant technique of case-cluster was applied. In addition, a discriminant analysis was used to validate the clusters of the cases obtained. For analyzing the differences between the different groups obtained, some non-parametrical statistical procedures were applied. The results obtained allowed for the visualization of a model that shows the empirical evidence regarding the presence of four types of foreign tourists that are considered valid for segmentation in the city of Córdoba as a WHS tourist destination: the alternative tourist, emotional tourist, cultural tourist, and heritage tourist. These results allow public and private managers to design specific strategies to increase visitor satisfaction.

scholarly journals Spatial Optimization for Land-use Allocation

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yao ◽  
Xiaoxiang Zhang ◽  
Alan T. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Optimization ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Land Use Allocation

Land-use allocation has long been an important area of research in regional science. Land-use patterns are fundamental to the functions of the biosphere, creating interactions that have substantial impacts on the environment. The spatial arrangement of land uses therefore has implications for activity and travel within a region. Balancing development, economic growth, social interaction, and the protection of the natural environment is at the heart of long-term sustainability. Since land-use patterns are spatially explicit in nature, planning and management necessarily must integrate geographical information system and spatial optimization in meaningful ways if efficiency goals and objectives are to be achieved. This article reviews spatial optimization approaches that have been relied upon to support land-use planning. Characteristics of sustainable land use, particularly compactness, contiguity, and compatibility, are discussed and how spatial optimization techniques have addressed these characteristics are detailed. In particular, objectives and constraints in spatial optimization approaches are examined.

scholarly journals Nature-Based Solutions for Storm Water Management—Creation of a Green Infrastructure Suitability Map as a Tool for Land-Use Planning at the Municipal Level in the Province of Monza-Brianza (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6124
Author(s):  
Giulio Senes ◽  
Paolo Stefano Ferrario ◽  
Gianpaolo Cirone ◽  
Natalia Fumagalli ◽  
Paolo Frattini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Rainwater Infiltration ◽  
Suitability Map ◽  
Municipal Level

Growing and uncontrolled urbanization and climate change (with an associated increase in the frequency of intense meteoric events) have led to a rising number of flooding events in urban areas due to the insufficient capacity of conventional drainage systems. Nature-Based Solutions represent a contribution to addressing these problems through the creation of a multifunctional green infrastructure, both in urban areas and in the countryside. The aim of this work was to develop a methodology to define Green Infrastructure for stormwater management at the municipal level. The methodology is defined on the basis of three phases: the definition of the territorial information needed, the production of base maps, and the production of a Suitability Map. In the first phase, we define the information needed for the identification of non-urbanized areas where rainwater can potentially infiltrate, as well as areas with soil characteristics that can exclude or limit rainwater infiltration. In the second phase, we constructed the following base maps: a “map of green areas”, a “map of natural surface infiltration potential” and a “map of exclusion areas”. In phase 3, starting from the base maps created in phase 2 and using Geographical Information Systems’ (GIS) geoprocessing procedures, the “Green area compatibility map to realize Green Infrastructure”, the “map of areas not suitable for infiltration” and the final “Green Infrastructure Suitability Map” are created. This methodology should help municipal authorities to set up Green Infrastructure Suitability Maps as a tool for land-use planning.

scholarly journals GI-Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
Anja Wijffels ◽  
Jos Van Orshoven ◽  
Bart Muys ◽  
Dirk Cattrysse
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Temporal Database ◽  
Model Base ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Automated Support

To deal with the complexity of land use allocation in a spatio-temporally variable context, a generic framework for automated support to multi-objective land use planning is proposed. The framework is rooted in the discipline of land evaluation which is considered a go-between between land resources survey and land use planning. It draws on own experiences and on lessons learnt from literature. It consists of five integrated and interoperable components. The core three ones, the spatio-temporal database, the engine for data query, transformation and analysis and the user interface are adopted from geographical information systems (GIS). A ‘knowledge and model base’ component adds capability for assessing land performance over time. Finally, a multicriteria decision analysis component allows for identifying optimal land units and optimal land use options. The framework’s applicability and the limitations of geographical information technology (GI-Technology) to generate spatio-temporal decision support systems (stDSS) are illustrated with two cases: one in data rich and one in data poor conditions.

scholarly journals Vegetação, Paisagem e o Planejamento do Uso da Terra

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Claudio Belmonte de Athayde Bohrer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Significant Advance ◽  
Forest Landscape

Resumo O levantamento e mapeamento da vegetação vem tendo uma importância crescente no plane-jamento do uso da terra em regiões florestais tropicais. Os mapas de vegetação podem ser utilizados indi-vidualmente ou de forma integrada com outros mapas temáticos, para a caracterização e análise da paisa-gem, a qual serve de orientação no processo de planejamento do uso da terra. O uso de mapas ecológicos ou da paisagem contendo informações combinadas de diferentes atributos da paisagem, é um avanço sig-nificativo na avaliação das terras. O enfoque holístico possibilita uma melhor compreensão das inter-rela-ções entre a vegetação e os outros atributos, melhorando significativamente as análises e avaliações resul-tantes . O enfoque paisagístico pode auxiliar ainda no próprio levantamento da vegetação, como o mapea-mento dos diversos tipos de comunidades ou formações florestais de acordo com as características domi-nantes da ambiente físico, como o relevo. Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIG) vêm sendo cada vez mais utilizados como banco de dados ambientais, onde dados relevantes podem ser armazenados, manipu-lados, atualizados e combinados em diversas análises e avaliações de diferentes cenários de evolução dinâ-mica natural e antrópica da paisagem florestal tropical. Palavras-Chave: Planejamento do Uso da Terra, Floresta Tropical, Análise da Paisagem, SIG.Abstract The vegetation survey and mapping has an increasingly important role in the land use planning in tropical forest regions. Vegetation maps can be used individually or integrated with other the-matic maps for the characterisation and analysis of the landscape, which will direct the land use planning process. The use of landscape ecological maps, which combine information from different land attributes is a significant advance on land evaluation and appraisal. The holistic approach allows a better understan-ding of the relationships between vegetation and other land attributes, which can improve considerably the results of the analyses and evaluation. The landscape approach can also improve the vegetation or forest survey, helping to map the different forest types according to the dominant aspects of the physical environment, such as relief. Geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used as a spatial environmental data base, where relevant data can be stored, handled, updated and combined in the analy-sis and evaluation of alternative scenarios of the natural and anthropogenic tropical forest landscape dynamics. Keywords: Land Use Planning, Tropical Forest, Landscape Analysis, GIS.The vegetation survey and mapping has an increasingly important role in the land use planning in tropical forest regions. Vegetation maps can be used individually or integrated with other the-matic maps for the characterisation and analysis of the landscape, which will direct the land use planning process. The use of landscape ecological maps, which combine information from different land attributes is a significant advance on land evaluation and appraisal. The holistic approach allows a better understan-ding of the relationships between vegetation and other land attributes, which can improve considerably the results of the analyses and evaluation. The landscape approach can also improve the vegetation or forest survey, helping to map the different forest types according to the dominant aspects of the physical environment, such as relief. Geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used as a spatial environmental data base, where relevant data can be stored, handled, updated and combined in the analy-sis and evaluation of alternative scenarios of the natural and anthropogenic tropical forest landscape dynamics. Keywords: Land Use Planning, Tropical Forest, Landscape Analysis, GIS.

scholarly journals Marche region, a "marginal" area in Italy: Participation in and exclusion from the Mediterranean megalopolis

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (420/421) ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
Rita Colantonio Venturelli ◽  
Andrea Galli
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Land Planning

Dr Colantonio Venterelli has a degree in Architecture from Rome University. She is a researcher at DISASC (Department of Applied Sciences to Complex Systems) and at the Engineering Faculty of Ancona University, where she is currently teaching Land Planning. Her main research interests and publications regard land planning in relation to environmental resources and the ecological study of the landscape. She has been involved in teaching and scientific exchanges with German universities for many years. She is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. Dr Galli has been Associate Professor of Analysis and Planning of Agricultural Systems at DISASC of Ancona University, Faculty of Agriculture, since 2001. An agronomist, he is currently teaching subjects related to Rural Buildings, Surveying, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems, Land Use Planning. Since 1982, his research activity and scientific production have concerned the analysis and evaluation of rural resources, Remote Sensing techniques applied to the rural landscape, Geographical Information Systems technologies, the ecological stability of the rural landscape, changes in land use, and the land use planning process. He has been a member of numerous national, regional and local research projects and has published more than 70 works including articles and books.

Vegetação, Paisagem e o Planejamento do Uso da Terra

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Claudio Belmonte de Athayde Bohrer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Significant Advance ◽  
Forest Landscape

Resumo O levantamento e mapeamento da vegetação vem tendo uma importância crescente no plane-jamento do uso da terra em regiões florestais tropicais. Os mapas de vegetação podem ser utilizados indi-vidualmente ou de forma integrada com outros mapas temáticos, para a caracterização e análise da paisa-gem, a qual serve de orientação no processo de planejamento do uso da terra. O uso de mapas ecológicos ou da paisagem contendo informações combinadas de diferentes atributos da paisagem, é um avanço sig-nificativo na avaliação das terras. O enfoque holístico possibilita uma melhor compreensão das inter-rela-ções entre a vegetação e os outros atributos, melhorando significativamente as análises e avaliações resul-tantes . O enfoque paisagístico pode auxiliar ainda no próprio levantamento da vegetação, como o mapea-mento dos diversos tipos de comunidades ou formações florestais de acordo com as características domi-nantes da ambiente físico, como o relevo. Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIG) vêm sendo cada vez mais utilizados como banco de dados ambientais, onde dados relevantes podem ser armazenados, manipu-lados, atualizados e combinados em diversas análises e avaliações de diferentes cenários de evolução dinâ-mica natural e antrópica da paisagem florestal tropical. Palavras-Chave: Planejamento do Uso da Terra, Floresta Tropical, Análise da Paisagem, SIG.Abstract The vegetation survey and mapping has an increasingly important role in the land use planning in tropical forest regions. Vegetation maps can be used individually or integrated with other the-matic maps for the characterisation and analysis of the landscape, which will direct the land use planning process. The use of landscape ecological maps, which combine information from different land attributes is a significant advance on land evaluation and appraisal. The holistic approach allows a better understan-ding of the relationships between vegetation and other land attributes, which can improve considerably the results of the analyses and evaluation. The landscape approach can also improve the vegetation or forest survey, helping to map the different forest types according to the dominant aspects of the physical environment, such as relief. Geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used as a spatial environmental data base, where relevant data can be stored, handled, updated and combined in the analy-sis and evaluation of alternative scenarios of the natural and anthropogenic tropical forest landscape dynamics. Keywords: Land Use Planning, Tropical Forest, Landscape Analysis, GIS.The vegetation survey and mapping has an increasingly important role in the land use planning in tropical forest regions. Vegetation maps can be used individually or integrated with other the-matic maps for the characterisation and analysis of the landscape, which will direct the land use planning process. The use of landscape ecological maps, which combine information from different land attributes is a significant advance on land evaluation and appraisal. The holistic approach allows a better understan-ding of the relationships between vegetation and other land attributes, which can improve considerably the results of the analyses and evaluation. The landscape approach can also improve the vegetation or forest survey, helping to map the different forest types according to the dominant aspects of the physical environment, such as relief. Geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used as a spatial environmental data base, where relevant data can be stored, handled, updated and combined in the analy-sis and evaluation of alternative scenarios of the natural and anthropogenic tropical forest landscape dynamics. Keywords: Land Use Planning, Tropical Forest, Landscape Analysis, GIS.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED LAND COVER AND TERRAIN ANALYSIS FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND USE PLANNING AT WATERSHED SCALE: A CASE STUDY OF BAN DAN NA KHAM WATERSHED OF NORTHERN THAILAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Chike Onyeke Madueke ◽  
Dhruba Pikha Shrestha ◽  
Panagiotis Nyktas
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Terrain Analysis ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Arable Farming

Soil is a fundamental natural resource that is vital to the sustainable development of human societies. However, in many developing countries, increased intensity of use and inadequate land use planning has put a lot of pressure on marginal soil, leading to various forms of land degradation. The purpose of this study is to generate an integrated the land cover and terrain classification of the Ban Dan Na Kham watershed of Northern Thailand as a tool for sustainable land use planning. The watershed boundary and slope classes were delineated using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The slope was subsequently classified into gentle (<8o), moderate (8-30o) and steep (>30o). The land cover map was generated through the supervised classification of Sentinel2 satellite imagery. Both map products were then integrated to provide the basis for land allocation and land use planning. The results show that 58 % of land currently under arable farming is either marginally suitable or practically unsuitable for that purpose. This ultimately leads to increased land degradation and soil loss. The land should consequently be reforested. Nevertheless, up to 10 km2 of the watershed that is dedicated to other land use types – almost twice the current arable land area – is suitable for arable cropping. As such, given the proposed reforestation of the marginal and unsuitable arable lands, a large proportion of suitable land is still available to make up for the deficit. This will ultimately lead to increased productivity and reduced land degradation.

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