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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. ...

Feb. 5, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Using arid land to power the country

In order to power a country the size of the United States indefinitely, everything is being done to invest in green and alternative energies and this includes, utilising land that has previously been deemed to be useless. It was recently revealed that thousands of acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley, that are no longer used for agricultural purposes due to salt ...

Aug. 19, 2010

By GDS International

California plans taking land for huge water tunnels

State contractors have readied plans to acquire as many as 300 farms in the California delta by eminent domain to make room for a pair of massive, still-unapproved water tunnels proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown, according to documents obtained by opponents of the tunnels. Farmers whose parcels were listed and mapped in the 160-page property-acquisition plan expressed dismay at the advanced planning ...

Aug. 17, 2015

By Associated Press

Pew Praises Quebec for Historic Land Conservation Plan

Mathew Jacobson, manager of the Pew Environment Group's International Boreal Conservation Campaign in Quebec, issued the following statement today in reaction to the Quebec government's release of Plan Nord, a sustainable development initiative for the 425,000-square-mile northern boreal region. This undertaking ...

May 9, 2011

By The Pew Charitable Trusts / The Pew Environment Group

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 ...

Jul. 4, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

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%. Environmental ...

Aug. 16, 2010

By Environmental Protection UK

EPA and MDEQ to Meet with Stakeholders regarding Soil Cleanup and Land Use plans at the Picayune Wood Treating Site

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) will meet with Mayor Ed Pinero and other local officials to tour the Picayune Wood Treating Superfund Site in Picayune, MS and to discuss the final phases of the soil cleanup on January 24, 2013. The meeting will also provide the opportunity to update the conceptual Reuse/Redevelopment Plan. The ...

Jan. 28, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Green Energy Solutions (SATM) Plans Land Use for Energy Plant at Alberta Site

(PINKSHEETS: SATM) Green Energy Solution Industries, Inc. (GESI), is making plans for the use of its designated land for use in implementing its waste rail tie to energy plant at the Alberta location. GESI has an agreement with the feed stock provider On-Track Railway Operations Ltd. for up to 10 acres of land use, that could be expanded at On-Track's Duagh Plant Facility outside of Edmonton ...

Dec. 8, 2011

EPA releases draft plan on RE-powering America’s land / advancing the development of renewable energy on potentially contaminated lands (HQ)

As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) RE-Powering America’s Land initiative, the agency has developed a two-year draft management plan to advance the development of renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mining sites. The draft plan describes activities EPA can take to build upon the progress that the initiative has achieved since its launch in ...

Oct. 14, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Pew Commends Interior for Adopting Balanced Plan on National Petroleum Reserve Lands

Joshua Reichert, an executive vice president at The Pew Charitable Trusts who leads the organization's environmental work, issued the following statement today applauding the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for approving a management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska that protects critical wildlife habitat. "This decision is the ...

Feb. 21, 2013

By The Pew Charitable Trusts / The Pew Environment Group

EPA Solicits Public Comments on Action Plan for RE-Powering America’s Land

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comments on the draft action plan for its RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative. The plan guides EPA’s efforts over the next two years to encourage renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites when such development is aligned with the community’s vision for the ...

Apr. 30, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Designing with damaged land

A citizens’ guide to reclaiming abandoned mine sites ecologically Written by Scott R Campbell. You can read the original story in MIT News A new website will be launched in September at waste2place.com that ...

Sep. 4, 2012

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

US$2.8m in grants for contaminated land cleanup, economic development in New Hampshire

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the nationwide availability of an estimated $111.9 million in grants bolstered by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to help communities clean up sites known as “brownfields” which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants. The grants for New Hampshire, which include $400,000 ...

Jun. 4, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Photo Blog - Climate Smart Land Use: Paludiculture in the Tropics

In the tropics, peat swamp forests are often logged and converted to oil palm and pulp wood plantations. This results in adverse effects on the natural resource base of local communities and impacts the biodiversity, water regulation and carbon storage functions of peatlands. As an alternative, paludiculture is a sustainable form of agriculture which enables the productive use of rewetted ...

Dec. 17, 2013

By Wetlands International

Better land care may be worth US$1.4 trillion a year

Better management of degraded lands could deliver up to US$1.4 trillion a year in increased crop production, says a report presented at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification conference in Windhoek, Namibia, last month (24 September). But it adds that much of the work on the economic valuation of such land in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America has been done by the international ...

Oct. 7, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Clean tech a top priority as Chinese president lands in US

Discussing how U.S. and Chinese experts and businesses can collaborate on nuclear energy, smarter electricity use and other clean technologies is a top agenda item as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Seattle Tuesday, almost a year after he and President Barack Obama announced their nations would cooperate to fight climate change. The ...

Sep. 22, 2015

By Associated Press

Securing land to develop CSP plants in the US – Private, State or Federal?

One of the first and critical challenges for solar developers is locating and securing the most suitable site that meets all the technical, logistic & budgetary requirements. There are only 3 options available private, state or federal with each one having separate challenges. This provides a tough decision to be made on the path to follow. Some of the typical considerations include: ...

Aug. 25, 2010

By FCBI Energy

Bioremediation Project: Local labratory assists local community land use transition

C&T is participating in a project to evaluate the application of phytoremediation (plant based remediation) approach to clean up a long abandoned contaminated railway right of way inBerkeley. This project will be the first real world test of this approach and involves the planting of more than 2, 000 Chinese brake ferns (Pteris vittata) that have been shown to suck Arsenic out of the soil and ...

Jul. 29, 2013

By Curtis & Tompkins Laboratories

Space radar techniques for land mapping

Entrepreneurs at ESA’s Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency’s Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor land and buildings from small aircraft. The radar can monitor structures such as dams, harbours, canals and buildings, leading to maps for urban planning, territory surveillance and cadastral ...

Jul. 20, 2009

By European Space Agency (ESA)

The Indirect Land Use Change Impact of Biofuels – IEEP Launches Analysis of EU Nations Projected Use of Biofuels and their Consequences

A new IEEP report analyses the indirect land use change (ILUC) impact of the substantial additional biofuel usage that will be generated up to 2020 by the targets under the EU renewable energy Directive. Plans from national governments setting out how they will reach these targets, which are only now becoming available, confirm that conventional biofuels will be the primary technology used in ...

Nov. 25, 2010

By Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)

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