Land Use Balance Research Articles

Land degradation neutrality in the Penza region

This study is carried out in order to calculate the neutral balance of the territory of the Penza region using the trend.earth program. In the course of the study, data on current land use, climatic conditions and changes in land cover are collected and analyzed. Using the trend.earth program, modeling of various scenarios of impact on land coverage is carried out in order to determine possible strategies for improving land management in order to achieve a neutral balance. The results of this study can be used to develop practical strategies for the sustainable use of land resources and to reduce the negative impact on the environment in the Penza region. The study of the neutral balance of the territory of the Penza region should take into account the existing rates of change in land cover, including the expansion of agricultural land, loss of forests and changes in water resources. When using the trend.earth program to model possible scenarios, potential impacts on biodiversity, climatic conditions and ecosystem sustainability should also be taken into account. The results of this study will identify potential locations for forest restoration, optimization of agricultural land use and other strategies to achieve a neutral balance in land management. The study will also provide important information for the development of practical recommendations for the sustainable development of the region. In addition, the assessment of the neutral balance of land use using trend.earth will allow assessing potential scenarios of changes in land cover in the context of climate change and economic development. This will allow factors such as carbon stocks, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem sustainability to be taken into account when developing land management strategies.

Spatial and temporal patterns and risk assessment of carbon source and sink balance of land use in watersheds of arid zones in China - a case study of Bosten Lake basin

In recent years, Northwest China has experienced rapid land-use transformation and urbanization. Land-use carbon emissions associated with human activities are an important cause of climate change. However, the carbon sources and sinks associated with land-use change in arid zone watersheds need further study. This study focuses on Bosten Lake in Northwest China and employs a combination of top-down and bottom-up methods to assess the spatial and temporal evolution of carbon source and sink balance under land use changes and identify areas with high carbon emission risks. The key discoveries are as follows: (1) The land use category shows a pattern of “three decreases and three increases.” Grassland, unused land, and water area have decreased, while construction land, arable land, and forest land have increased. Cultivated land shows significant expansion, with an increase of 2375.71 km2. The overall distribution of land use intensities breaks through traditional boundaries, resulting in more dispersed reorganization of land use types. (2) Carbon emissions originating from land use category exhibit an upward trend, with a net increase of 1413.38 × 104 t. Construction land emerges as the primary carbon source, while arable land experiences the highest rate of carbon source migration. Grassland serves as the primary carbon sink migration area. Transformations and rapid expansions of arable land contribute significantly to changes in carbon balance. (3) Carbon emission risks are prominent in agricultural and pastoral areas as well as urban core regions, gradually decreasing in surrounding areas with a single-core staggered distribution pattern. The carbon source exceeds the carbon absorption, indicating a significant imbalance in carbon balance. These findings carry significant implications for the promotion of low-carbon and high-quality development in the Bosten Lake basin and the optimization of national territorial planning.

Changes in Land Use in Southern Amazonas: A Quantitative Analysis in the Municipality of Lábrea

Purpose: To analyze land use patterns in the municipality of Lábrea from 2000 to 2022. Theoretical framework: Although deforestation is historically related to the strength of agribusiness capital in the state of Mato Grosso, it has currently advanced in a region, which encompasses the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia. Spatial analyzes indicate that the municipality of Lábrea (AM), together with Porto Velho (RO), Apuí and Novo Aripunã are responsible for 52% of the deforestation in a region. Given the above, knowing the patterns of land use in Lábrea helps to identify new occupation frontiers, in addition to showing itself as an indicator of biodiversity loss and threats to traditional peoples. Method/design/approach: The research is a quantitative study using geoprocessing tools, such as ArcGis 10.6 software. The areas of land use were quantified in the period from 2000 to 2022 and a descriptive statistical analysis was carried out in order to verify the variability of deforestation in the defined period. Results and conclusion: The results showed that deforestation in Lábrea in the period from 2000 to 2022 had an average of 248.8 km² reaching its maximum point in 2022, with 700 km² of deforested area. The intensity of land use and occupation runs mainly in its southern portion, being a strong indicator of illegal land appropriation for agricultural development. Research implications: The contribution of the research deals with the knowledge of land use patterns in the municipality of Lábrea, demonstrating critical analysis that will serve as a theoretical basis for the creation of new public policies focused on the balance of land use with regional development. Originality value: This research is original and demonstrates a temporal analysis of land use in a municipality in the southern State of Amazonas and its main implications.

A method for evaluating the balance of land use and multimodal transport system of new towns/cities using an integrated modeling framework

A method for evaluating the balance of land use and multimodal transport system of new towns/cities using an integrated modeling framework

Associations of land use around rail transit stations with jobs–housing distribution of rail commuters from smart-card data

ABSTRACT Previous studies generally used land use and travel flow to investigate the efficiency of the railway system in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) cities. Furthermore, to study the association of land use and jobs–housing distribution of commuters, we can find out the potential development of rail commuting. In this research, four railway lines in Wuhan, China, were selected to explore the land use in promoting practical commuting population according to the smart-card data obtained. For land use issues, except the road density and building density, a Normalized Location-Weighted Landscape Index (NLWLI) based on the source – sink theory in landscape ecology was established to assess the jobs–housing land use around rail transit stations. Meanwhile, employment and housing details of commuters around rail transit stations were identified using smart-card data. We found that the generation of commuting flow was affected by building density and the land use of employment in the immediate vicinity of rail transit stations. The distribution of building density and commuters in a mature rail line was roughly a normal distribution. However, due to the inconsistency of land use and jobs – housing distribution around stations, the requirement of the balance of land use and jobs – housing distribution should be reduced at the scale of rail stations in the TOD planning systems. This study is the application of massive smart-card data in the field of urban research. It identifies land use issues that affect rail transit commuting flow, and can help urban planners improve the efficiency of rail transit through planning and design.

Residential location choice and its effects on travel satisfaction in a context of short-term transnational relocation

Temporary opportunities for studying and working abroad have been growing globally and intensifying the movement of highly skilled temporary populations. To attract this group, cities need to address their residential and mobility needs. This study focuses on factors influencing residential and travel satisfaction of transnational temporary residents, highlighting the occurrence of residential self-selection, its impacts on residential and travel choices and on derived levels of satisfaction. We have estimated a Bayesian Structural Equations Model and found that lower levels of residential satisfaction (residential dissonance) are associated with lower rents, living farther away from the place of study or work, and having higher transport expenditures. In contrast, higher levels of residential satisfaction (residential consonance) are related to individuals’ stronger preferences for active modes, lower levels of public transport use, and reduced transport monthly expenditures, which suggest shorter commuting distances. These findings reveal the tradeoffs involving residential location, monthly rent, and transport expenditures, highlighting that providing good public transport connections can reduce the burden of commuting distances. Our results indicate that better transport supply and land-use balance near the residence can improve both residential and travel satisfaction.

Water-Centric Nexus Approach for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors in Response to Climate Change in the Korean Peninsula

Climate change has inherent multidisciplinary characteristics, and predicting the future of a single field of work has a limit. Therefore, this study proposes a water-centric nexus approach for the agriculture and forest sectors for improving the response to climate change in the Korean Peninsula. Two spatial models, i.e., Environmental Policy Integrated Climate and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs, were used to assess the extent of changes in agricultural water demand, forest water supply, and their balance at the watershed level in the current and future climatic conditions. Climate changed has increased the agricultural water demand and forest water supply significantly in all future scenarios and periods. Comparing the results with RCP8.5 2070s and the baseline, the agricultural water demand and forest water supply increased by 35% and 28%, respectively. Water balance assessment at the main watershed level in the Korean Peninsula revealed that although most scenarios of the future water supply increases offset the demand growth, a risk to water balance exists in case of a low forest ratio or smaller watershed. For instance, the western plains, which are the granary regions of South and North Korea, indicate a higher risk than other areas. These results show that the land-use balance can be an essential factor in a water-centric adaptation to climate change. Ultimately, the water-centric nexus approach can make synergies by overcoming increasing water demands attributable to climate change.

How to achieve parsimonious urban land use: The Case of Greater Zurich

ABSTRACT Land use regulations in Switzerland do not meet the requirements of the spatial planning act (SPA) in their guidance for parsimonious land use. If parsimonious land use is to be achieved, urban economic theories and price-based regulations must be leveraged to determine the intensity and balance of land use. Therefore, an urban information system to project and guide for parsimonious land use was developed. The GIS spatial analysis instrument presented in this paper is intended as a decision-making aid in the reform of the land use regulations, in particular metropolitan, cantonal and regional structure plans and municipal land use plans. By intensifying and better balancing land use at locations adequately accessed by public transport, land can be used parsimoniously. However, the projection results are not a self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, to guide for parsimonious land use regulations need to change from normative, static and exclusionary to context-dependent, conditional, dynamic and inclusionary ones. The next step is to develop a system of fees and codes to internalize negative externalities of building and transport and to collect public revenue from economic and agglomeration rents.

Spatial balance degree evaluation model of land use based on regional collaborative remote sensing observation

In order to overcome the low accuracy of the traditional spatial balance evaluation method for land use, this paper constructs a spatial balance evaluation model for land use based on regional collaborative remote sensing observation. The land use information is collected by regional collaborative remote sensing observation system, and the evaluation index system and balance degree evaluation model are constructed by synthesising the information. The supply capacity index and the spatial development intensity index in the evaluation model are calculated by the arithmetic average method and the geometric average method. The ratio between them is defined as the output of the model. The experimental results show that the accuracy of this method is always over 95%, and the evaluation time is less than 2.1 s, which can realise the rapid and accurate evaluation of the spatial balance of land use.

Spatial balance degree evaluation model of land use based on regional collaborative remote sensing observation

In order to overcome the low accuracy of the traditional spatial balance evaluation method for land use, this paper constructs a spatial balance evaluation model for land use based on regional collaborative remote sensing observation. The land use information is collected by regional collaborative remote sensing observation system, and the evaluation index system and balance degree evaluation model are constructed by synthesising the information. The supply capacity index and the spatial development intensity index in the evaluation model are calculated by the arithmetic average method and the geometric average method. The ratio between them is defined as the output of the model. The experimental results show that the accuracy of this method is always over 95%, and the evaluation time is less than 2.1 s, which can realise the rapid and accurate evaluation of the spatial balance of land use.

Formation of management tools for balanced use of agricultural land

Introduction. An important role is played by the use of a wide range of tools and levers of influence at different levels of government in the theory and practice of agricultural activities to ensure a balanced use of land resources. Therefore, it is relevant at the present stage of management to study the features of the formation of management system in the field of land use to ensure a balanced use of agricultural land. Methods. Research conducted by use of the dialectical method of knowledge of the economic laws and systematic approach to the study of economic phenomena and processes, monographic, induction and deduction - to form a management system in the direction of balancing agricultural land use; abstract-logical method - in the implementation of theoretical generalizations and formulation of conclusions. Results. The author substantiates the basic principles of the formation of management tools in the direction of balancing agricultural land use. The basic components for the formation of the management system in the field of balancing the use of agricultural land at local, regional and state levels are identified. Basic levers and tools in the agricultural land management system have been installed to ensure its balance. The system of forming management tools in the direction of ensuring balanced use of agricultural land has been developed. Discussion. It is important to create an appropriate institutional environment at the national and regional level in order to ensure the effective management system in the field of balanced agricultural land use. Further research should focus on examining the impact of institutional components on the balance of land use at different levels of government. Keywords: agricultural production, leverage, balanced land use, agricultural land, tools, management principles, management levels.

Geographical Analysis of Distribution of Physical Indicators of Rural Housing with the Approach of the Optimal Distribution of Space

Extended abstract 1. INTRODUCTION Housing as spatial crystallization of interests and abilities specific to each area in terms of physical and environmental issues that have distinct patterns over time, as long as one accepts and man-made phenomenon, the human civilization and culture of the most important manifestation in other words embody settlements and housing as the smallest form its skeleton key role in the formation of spatial structure - physical and identity of rural architecture. The importance of housing in the village when the last official census finds more concrete Country, 28.5 percent of the country's population of 75 million live in rural areas. Also, nearly 7.5 million households in the country, villagers who live more than 5 million residential units. This study aimed at collecting physical indicators of desirable rural housing is done. This study tries to Iran from the index specified in Rural Areas and common technique, the rating and ranking of these areas in order to analyze their housing space justice. The relationship between the development of the province in terms of physical indicators to assess housing and balanced development strategies and overcoming the spatial differentiation of the offer. 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Spatial analysis of various definitions of literature, although this definition, many common factors in itself. But the differences are also evident that this difference is due to provide theoretical insight and analysis to determine the issue. To explain more appropriate conceptual framework is outlined some definitions. Regional unbalance and unbalanced distribution services for poor Featuring facilities and major developing countries and Iran. Regional planning and development aimed at reducing regional inequality, the most important issues in numerous developing countries and the regional balance of land use and spatial development regional perspective, in the sense that the relationship between Indicators weight status in an area is such that centers on the distribution of resources and population size, gross inequality gap (as in the case of regional primacy and dominance) does not exist. In other words, balanced regional development effort that the best conditions and facilities for the comprehensive development of all areas to provide, quality of life differences between the regional and the district to minimize and eventually eliminate. It also puts the first priority and create the conditions for a fair distribution of social conditions for comprehensive development of all people is a targeted area. 3. METHODOLOGY The dominant approach in this research is descriptive - analytical and practical nature. Statistical data of the Statistical Center of Iran were collected. Data from the questionnaire to measure in the form of experts and scholars, including 20 specialist experts in this field have been used. Data were also weighted for analysis and fuzzy TOPSIS and VIKOR is used. The results of these models using Techniques (average rating, methods Borda and Kaplan) integration in order to clarify the relationship between physical indicators rural housing with a rural population of Pearson's correlation coefficient was used. 4. DISCUSSION Ranking criteria intended to help all three methods Average Rating, Borda and Kaplan obtained, the results of three methods are combined with each other and for each region we mean. Finally, each of the regions with respect to the results obtained from the integration of our ranking in the final rank to obtain privileges. According to the results, Iran's rural areas are the city of Mazandaran at various levels (mean 1.5) and Isfahan (2) high-level and city-of Sistan and Baluchestan (30) and Kerman, South Khorasan (29.5) have been the most deprived areas 5. CONCLUSION The results clearly indicate a mismatch between the subject's approaches to spatial equity. Spatial analysis of the spatial equity indices of housing reflects the fact that the Iranian provinces there are significant differences in terms of indices of rural housing. n the central and northern provinces such as Mazandaran, Isfahan, Tehran and Alborz optimal weight control in the field of rural housing indices. Most of the provinces of South and South East relative to the lowest coefficient of rural housing indicators limitations which won a tendency toward disequilibrium part. Therefore, developing a comprehensive program of housing, particularly rural housing, requiring full identification and thorough analysis of large-scale housing and the factors affecting it. It should be noted that while these indicators as a key element in determining the physical parameters housing of each special place in the system of planning housing. However, each of these factors alone is not a condition to promote some of these indicators. What are the indicators of quality housing in the debate on long enough, to convert them all together is necessary? Overall Comparison of housing in some provinces, a variety of problems both at the micro level and the macro level of society creates the best strategy in the field of prevention and protection sectors.

Planned urban industrialization and its effect on urban industrial real estate valuation: The Singapore experience

This paper investigates the challenge posed by an optimal balance of land use because of chronic land resource scarcity, in conjunction with the growing requirement for quality-intensive industrial accommodation in the island-state city of Singapore. Optimizing land resource, under a strong physical planning framework and its physical planning administration, is envisaged to set the conditions that facilitate the creation of values for urban industrial real estate assets. This value creation enables urban industrial real estate values to find their steady state levels, under a structure of causal links. It can significantly represent, although not completely, the efficient price mechanism for allocating land to its highest and best industrial use. Thus, a generalized multiple regression analysis model is estimated to robustly explain urban industrial real estate asset value in terms of the structural price-discovery factors, under the physical planning framework and its administration. This paper extends the urban real estate valuation model to incorporate a geographic information system that enables a spatial distribution analysis of urban industrial real estate asset values.

Land-Use Changes in Two Middle Hills Districts of Nepal

Between 1993 and 1996 the Nepal Australia Community Forestry Project carried out four comparative land-use stud- ies in Sindhu Palchok and Kabhre Palanchok districts of Nepal to evaluate the impacts of Australian development assistance over a continuous 19-year period fostering community forestry. The four studies made use of sets of air photographs taken in 1978 and 1992 to assess land-use changes. The samples covered almost 15 percent of the 400,000 ha land area of the two districts; they ranged between 600 and 4,000 m in altitude. Land-use change based on photo interpretation and ground truthing was supple- mented by Rapid Rural Appraisal and by information obtained from local villagers. Community forestry activities within certain areas at the lower altitudes are having a beneficial effect on the balance of land use as part of a broader process of agrarian change. Shrublands and grasslands are being converted to more productive categories of forest land, reflecting the care of communities in managing and conserving their own forest resources. The same cannot be said for the upper slopes where there is evidence that the forest cover is being denuded rapidly and that the shrubland and grassland areas are expanding at the expense of forest cover. Many current land-use practices need to be abandoned or modified. Use of land for agricultural purposes appears to be stable. Recent evidence suggests that reliance on subsistence farming is de- clining as opportunities increase for off-farm income, but whether this has allowed population pressure on land resources to be contained is debatable. While it appears that community forestry has reduced the pressure on land at the lower altitudes of Sindhu Palchok and Kabhre Palanchok, sustained population pressures, combined with a lack of coherent and coordinated land manage- ment policies and practices, have resulted in a rapid decline in forest resources on the upper slopes together with loss of catch- ment stability.

Populating Israel's Mountains while Preserving Their Environmental Quality

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Galilee Mountains were still practically a ‘closed system’, as a result of which the balance of land-use was more or less preserved. Rural settlements had then hardly developed, and stagnation of the few remaining mountain towns was observed. In general, the roads were unpaved routes, the economy served for subsistence only (based mainly on agricultural terraces), while most of the area was of forest or rocky ground serving as pasture.During the British Mandatory period, the Galilee Mountains area opened up slowly, and this process has increased ever since the establishment of the State of Israel. The Mountains are facing a tremendous increase in population as a result of natural local increase (mostly Arabs) and migration (mostly Jews). This excessive mountain population in Israel is an unusual phenomenon in comparison with other mountain regions in the western world, which have generally decreased in population though there, too, the equilibrium of land-use has been shaken—for instance in the Swiss Alps (Bugmann, 1980; Gallusser, 1980; Messerli et al., 1980), and in the Rocky Mountains of the United States (Kelly, 1980).

オープンスペース・システムズに関する基礎的研究 (I)

This study is to recognize the complicated structurization of many elements that relate to physical environment in which land use is contained. Open space is one of the most essential elements that relate to physical enviroment and land use.The recognition of the complicated structurization of many elements that relate to land use are very effective to organize the open spaces. Because, the situations of the land and people are supported by the complicated structurization which is composed of relations of many elements; physical, social, economical, political and so on. And the changes of complicated structurization affect to the total situations.In this study, the complicated structurization between land use (existing open space 1, existing open space 2, existing open spen space 3, urbanized area) and slope were discussed. On the process of this study, land use was recognized as the results of human behavior in the given space.There are so many tools to approach for this aim, but it was tried to understand the complicated structurization by mesh analysis. The process are as follows.(1) Selection of study area; the complicated structurization between land use and slope degree is in influenced by the area conditions. In the case of high density area it is necessary to develop into the hillside. One aim in this study was to recognize the limit of various kind of development on the sloped area, for this reason Osaka Prefecture was selected for study area, because of shortage of the flat space for the development.(2) Collection of data; on the process of this study, the various kinds of data of land use were obtained from existing land use map (1/30, 000: 1968) by setting the 500 square meters grid. And the detailed data of slope degree was gotton from the same grid. The pitch of contour line is 20 meters.(3) The first stage of this study was to understand the dynamic balance of land use through the changes of slope degree.(4) The second stage was to introduce the basic study to open space systems.(5) The results of this study in Osaka Prefecture are as follows.(1) Urbanized area was the dominant land use element, despite of the Iand use was too much confused on flat zone.(2) Forest and ricefield were on the tendency to change to urbanized area on the sloped zone under 24%.(3) Forest and rice field were stabilized on the sloped zone over24%(4) Forest was the dominant land use element on high sloped zone. The transltlon zone from inferior to dominant was 24% sloped areas, (5) Ricefield was also the donninant land use element on sloped zone, but this element was not so dominallt in higher sloped zone. The transition zone from inferior to dominant was 16% sloped areas.In this study only the relationship between land use and slope degree was discussed. But there are more and more elements that relate to land use and open space systems. The cognition of the complicated structurization of many elements are to be based on open spacesystems planning.