land use News
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Transport and land use planning: integrating shared strategies
Incorporating land use and transport planning in the early stages of a development project can lead to improved strategies for urban planners. A recent study suggests that a mediated process is successful in supporting shared decisions about land use and transport. Greater integration of land use and transport planning will lead to more sustainable transport systems and reduce ecological impact. ...
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Statistics on EU land use and land cover published
The European Union's statistical office Eurostat have published the results of a large scale land survey showing the land use of 23 EU member states. The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS), conducted in 2009, records the physical cover of the land and its visible socio-economic use. It is the largest dataset of its kind in Europe and provides harmonised and comparable data across member ...
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Freight Planning Workshop
In this session of the 2016 National Regional Transportation Conference, attendees learned about the fundamentals of freight data and connections between freight and land use. Also, attendees heard about the recent release of federal guidance on the designation of freight corridors and how to plan for them in this interactive session that will build attendees’ freight planning skills. To ...
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Managing Land for Mining and Conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
With significant areas of overlapping high biodiversity resources and mineral wealth, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces increasing pressure from competing uses of land widely considered incompatible. This policy paper reviews the rise of commercial mining and the mining concessions afforded ostensibly at the expense of conservation efforts where protected areas and mining permits ...
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Land use figures show increased garden grabbing
Recently published figures on land use endorse the Government's decision to prevent garden grabbing by changing planning policy guidance, according to the Department of Communities and Local Government. The Land Use Change Statistics show that over the last 12 years, the percentage of homes built on previously residential land, which includes back gardens, increased from 14% to 25%. ...
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What future for land use in the climate negotiations?
Plants sequester carbon from the atmosphere and store it in their roots, stems and leaves. When cut or burned, that carbon is again released into the atmosphere. For this and other reasons, forests and other land uses have for a long time been discussed in the United Nations convention on climate change as part of both the cause and the solution for climate change. Over the years, however, the ...
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Buildings, Land-Use and Property information at your fingertips - Geomni UK Educational Webinars
Geomni publish product updates at the end of every March and September and this year is no different. There are traditionally meetings, conferences, exhibitions around these times where the Geomni team can connect with the industry and promote the new releases. Find out which events the team will be attending by taking a look at the listing on our events and webinar page. Even though many ...
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Forest Communities map their Land using Data Loggers
Simple data logging devices can help forest communities map their land and monitor environmental change, according to researchers running a trial. An ongoing project by NGO the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) encourages indigenous people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, to use portable, satellite-linked data loggers to create maps of areas that have not been mapped in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Davos Media Breakfast Briefing: Hundreds of Millions of Hectares Face Degradation Threat
How much land can the world use to produce food, build towns and extract natural resources, and still develop in a sustainable way? This critical question is at the heart of a new report from the International Resource Panel, to be released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 24 January. The report, entitled, Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable ...
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Hatfield Provides Land Cover Mapping for the Government of Botswana
As part of the National Development Plan 10, the Government of Botswana embarked on the production of a national land cover/land use mapping for the entire country at scale 1:50 000. Hatfield Consultants is supporting the Botswana Department of Surveys and Mapping (DSM) to produce the land cover/land use data for Kgalagadi and Ghanzi Districts – these two districts alone cover an area of ...
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FAO Soil and Land Legacy Maps
FAO Land and Water Division (NRL) has made an effort to make Soil Legacy data and information available for their users. In that regard, FAO has just finished uploading 1228 soil and land legacy maps (mainly soil maps and also land use, geological and land cover legacy maps). FAO will continue working in this activity and will include Soil Profile Legacy data ...
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Geomni UK November News
October and November are traditionally a time for conferences and events. This year has been a bit different so it was good to participate in AGI GeoCom2020 last week with the opportunity to both listen to interesting talks but also meet delegates and network. To help brighten up the darker evenings, if you haven’t done so, I would recommend looking at the Twitter #30DayMapChallenge ...
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EPA hosts video town hall meeting about effective land use
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding an Internet-based town hall meeting on March 30, 2010, from 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. EST. Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and other EPA experts will answer citizen questions about effective land use. Effective and efficient land use saves commuting time, money, resources, and ...
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GIS and Technology Applications for Transportation Planning and Analysis
Learn about new trends and real-life practical applications from regional planning and economic development organizations. Presenters will discuss one transportation model based upon economic modeling and forecasting, as well as land use allocation modeling from a regional sustainability project, along with how GIS was used to support analysis of a region’s bicycle route planning efforts, a ...
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Sophisticated soil analysis for improved land use
Soil variation occurs across multiple geographic scales ranging from vast climatic regions of the Earth to a 50 acre farm field to the molecular world of soil nano-particles in a pinch of soil. For example, in a forest or an agricultural field, soil properties vary from the summit of a hill down to the base. Within a single soil aggregate that may be less than a quarter inch in diameter, there ...
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An early warning system for land use planners
Before making large changes to land use, such as new transport networks, it is important to assess what the environmental impact will be. Ideally, the assessment should be conducted as early as possible and to be useful, must be fast and simple with clear recommendations. Researchers have developed a new environmental impact assessment method for changes to large geographic areas, which they ...
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MEPs add weight to land-use concerns
A group of MEPs has written to leading commissioners, expressing ‘serious concern’ about the issue of indirect land-use change (Iluc) caused by biofuels production. Their letter follows the publication last month of a report commissioned by nine NGOs showing the additional emissions of greenhouse gases likely to be caused by an increase in use of biofuels if EU biofuels policy ...
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Land use conflicts necessitate integrated policy
Demand for land in Europe is high. Food and biomass production, housing, infrastructure and recreation all compete for space, with impacts on our climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a recent assessment, the European Environment Agency (EEA) analyses land use change in Europe, concluding that we need an integrated policy approach based on reliable data to balance sectoral demands and ...
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Kenya-Nigeria ECR Launch Event
Kenyan and Nigerian ECRs jointly met on Friday, October 2nd 2020 and decided to synergize their activities. They agreed to identify areas of research with similarities, share knowledge and explore opportunities of joint comparative studies in research topics. Synergy is to be built between the team working on the assessment of essential and potentially harmful elements in Rice and Soils from ...
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Europe`s land use mapped through new field survey tool
The LUCAS viewer, a new mapping tool managed by the European Environment Agency, now allows users to see land-cover information based on satellite images as well as thumbnail-size photographs taken in sampled locations across Europe. Explore Europe's changing landscape. Adding such in situ observations to satellite data leads to a more accurate and detailed presentation of Europe's landscape. ...
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