scholarly journals The Status of Pachiterric Histosol Properties as Influenced by Different Land Use

Peat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvyra Slepetiene ◽  
Kristina Amaleviciute-Volunge ◽  
Jonas Slepetys ◽  
Inga Liaudanskiene ◽  
Jonas Volungevicius
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals Identificación de conflictos de uso de suelo para la planificación del crecimiento urbano: ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (México)

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
J.D. Maldonado-Marín ◽  
L.C. Alatorre-Cejudo ◽  
E. Sánchez-Flores
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Land Use Conflict ◽  
The Status ◽  
Resolution Model ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
Land Use Policies

This research incorporates new forms of analysis for urban planning and development in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (Mexico), providing elements of reference by identifying areas with potentiality and limitations for urban land use, as well as for agricultural and conservation activities. The general objective was to identify the main conflicts between land uses and coverages to determine the areas of greatest territorial suitability for the city's growth. For this purpose, the Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS) model was used to understand the spatial significance of the status of land use policies, including likely urban patterns associated with agricultural and conservation trends. In the case study, a total of 149,139 inhabitants are estimated for the year 2030, which represents the need for an additional 392.42 hectares to accommodate the population growth. For that of the 16,272.21 hectares that has the population limit, 38 % were allocated to the category of agriculture, 11.95% to conservation soils and 49.67% to urban land (including the existing urban area). There is a significant portion of the area that is in conflict between the different land uses. It concludes, that the integration of a conflict resolution model for land use and land cover represents a practical solution that contributes to the improvement of processes of urban development planning.

scholarly journals Land Cover/ Land Use Change and Climate Change in Dhofar Governorate, Oman

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
E. Ramadan ◽  
T. Al-Awadhi ◽  
Y. Charabi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Vegetation Activity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Landsat Satellite

The study of land cover/land use dynamics under climate change conditions is of great significance for improving sustainable ecological management. Understanding the relationships between land cover and land use changes and climate change is thus very important. Understanding the interactive and cumulative effects of climate and land-use changes are a priority for urban planners and policy makers. The present investigation is based on Landsat satellite imagery to explore changes in vegetation spatial distribution between the years from 2000 to2018 The methodology is focused on vegetation indexes tracking and algebraic overlay calculation to analyzed vegetation and their spatial differentiation, land cover change pattern, and the relationships between vegetation dynamics and land cover change in Dhofar Governorate. The study results have revealed that the vegetation vigor is lower in all years compared to 2000. The scene of 2010 shows the minimum vegetation vigor, overall. Besides, the investigation shows a statistical relationship between rainfall and the status of the health of vegetation. Monsoon rainfall has an impact of the growth of vegetation. Between 2012 and 2013, the vegetation activity shows a decreasing trend. The analysis diagnoses an area affected by the worst degree of aridity situated in the southeastern of Dhofar Mountains. Climate change is the main driving factor resulted from both human activities and rainfall fluctuation.

Water Accounting Plus (WA+) through Remote Sensing in the Yarmouk Tributary Basin

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chadi Abdallah ◽  
Gina Tarhini ◽  
Mariam Daher ◽  
Hussein Khatib ◽  
Mark Zeitoun
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Initial Distribution ◽  
Yarmouk River ◽  
The Status ◽  
Irrigated Crops ◽  
Water Accounting ◽  
Derived Data

<p>Coping with the issue of water scarcity and growing competition for water among different sectors requires effective water management strategies and decision processes. ‘Getting it right’ becomes doubly important when dealing with intenational transboundary rivers. The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River is one highly exploited in the Middle East, and is enveloped by ambiguous treaties and decades of violent and non-violent conflict. Seeking to chart a more sustainable and equitable future, this work performs a 'water accounting plus' methodology employing readily available remotely sensed satellite-based data coupled with available measurements.  A variety of methods described herein were used to detect irrigated crops and produce maps showing the distribution throughout the basin. The framework also focuses on the classification of land use categories and the processes by which water is depleted over all land use classes that contributes to separate the beneficial from non-beneficial usage of water. The analysis was started prior to the 2011 start of the Syrian war in order to study the initial distribution of land use classes as well as the water depletion processes before any change in the basin. It shows that more than half of the exploitable water is not consumed within the basin and depleted outside. In contrast, most of the water consumed within the basin is wasted and depleted in a non-beneficial way. Roughly 35% of the cultivated area shown to be irrigated through withdrawals which exceed the capacity of the source. This result reflects the high abstraction rates from groundwater via a large number of unlicensed wells mostly located at the Syrian side. This study also detect a deficiency in the water balance of the Yarmouk River. The findings are relevant to sustainable management not only for water-dependent sectors but also for geopolitical stability among the riparian countries. In this way, open- access remote sensing derived data can provide useful information about the status of water resources especially when ground measurements are poor or absent.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: Yarmouk, Water Accounting Plus, IWM, Irrigated crops, WAPOR.</p>

scholarly journals Reducing deforestation in Colombia while building peace and pursuing business as usual extractivism?

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Krause
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Colombian Amazon

In this article, I examine the contradictions and tensions in Colombia's simultaneous embrace of REDD+ and a peace-building process premised on continued extractivism. Colombia is emerging from an internal conflict that lasted more than 50 years. In this process rural land-use is being transformed, generating new conflicts over land use and control with detrimental effects on Colombia's forests. Based on official documents, reports, existing scholarly work, interviews and observations collected during fieldwork in the Colombian Amazon, I analyze the ways in which peace-building and post-conflict transition have precipitated factors which have aggravated land conflicts and led to the escalation of deforestation in Colombia. I argue that Colombia's current REDD+ efforts mainly serve to attract international funding and legitimize the status quo since they remain disconnected from the structural processes that directly and indirectly drive deforestation. As such, REDD+ in Colombia contributes to a contradictory neoliberal approach to development, which promises to safeguard the environment, while supporting large-scale extractive industries, mining, cattle ranching and intensive agriculture, resulting in the increase in deforestation and forest degradation.Key Words: Colombia, post-conflict, peace-building, extractivism, deforestation, REDD+

scholarly journals Land use, REDD+ and the status of wildlife populations in Yaeda Valley, northern Tanzania

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e0214823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Kiffner ◽  
Zoe Arndt ◽  
Trent Foky ◽  
Megan Gaeth ◽  
Alex Gannett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
The Status ◽  
Wildlife Populations

The impact of agricultural pollutants in six drinking water reservoirs

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tanik ◽  
B. Beler Baykal ◽  
I. E. Gonenc
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Diffuse Sources ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
The Status ◽  
Agricultural Pollutants ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Impact

Water is supplied in the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Area from the surface water of six main reservoirs. The present land use in the catchment areas of the reservoirs indicates that the area devoted to agricultural activities and to forests and meadows varies between 73 and 97% and that only a minor percentage, 1-26%, is devoted to settlements and industries. In contrast to the land use profile, the current environmental evaluation of the catchment areas reveals that point sources dominate over diffuse sources. However, this trend is expected to be reversed in the near future, making diffuse sources and control of fertilizers and pesticides the most significant issue. Pollutant loads regarding pesticides and fertilizers are calculated from unit loads based on area. These pollutants are observed to have a negative impact on water quality in terms of eutrophication and toxicity. In this paper, the status of fertilizers and pesticides are addressed and some protective measures for reducing the impact of agricultural pollutants in the reservoirs are recommended.

Research about the Evaluation System of Economical and Intensive Land Use in Tourism Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2836-2839
Author(s):  
Su Min Li ◽  
Shu Gan ◽  
Hong Bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Core ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
The Status ◽  
Intensive Land Use ◽  
The Evaluation System

The core of economical and intensive land-use in tourism industry is the land for construction(LC). The paper studied the evaluation system about the economical and intensive land-use of the LC in the tourism industry. And made the cites as the evaluation unit of Yunnan Province, selected seven factors, such as the received tourist of units construction from abroad, the investment of units construction, the income of tourism and so on as the evaluation factors, analyzed and evaluated the status of intensive use of the LC, which provided the basis for the land-use planning of tourism industry in Yunnan Province.

Study on the Evaluation of Urban Industrial Land Intensive Use

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 2442-2449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Hua Lu ◽  
Jun Lian Zhang ◽  
Xian Wen Li ◽  
Xiu Lian Wang ◽  
Xiao Fei Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Industrial Land Use ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
The Status

With the Comprehensive database of industrial land, the paper taken Hefei district as study area and taking Administrative regions as evaluation Unit, evaluated and analyzed the status of urban industrial land intensive use, the main steps of the research are: construct evaluating indicator system based on the scale, structure, intensity and layout; constitute criteria according to contents of the indicator system; construct evaluation model; put data of Hefei and criteria into the evaluation model and obtain the evaluating result about the intensive utilization of industrial land in Hefei; analyze the result to find problems and based on the problems in the industrial land use in Hefei, improving region industrial land intensive use suggestions were put forward in this paper to provide reference for region industrial land intensive use control Policy-making.

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