Showing papers in "Land Use Policy in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether the sources of land use transitions are mostly endogenous socio-ecological forces or exogenous socio-economic factors, and evaluate the varying ecological quality of expanding forests associated with these pathways.

TL;DR: The results of a study of public attitudes to onshore windfarm development in south-west Scotland is presented in this article, where the authors explore the influences of different development models on attitudes to windfarms by comparing public attitudes towards a community-owned windfarm on the Isle of Gigha with attitudes towards several developer-owned on the adjacent Kintyre peninsula.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential factors influencing the building of a new countryside in China, and provided a critical discussion of the problems and implications concerning carrying out this campaign, from a geographical perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a study to elicit the factors explaining adoption of soil erosion control practices in Belgium using a socio-psychological approach, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB).

TL;DR: The authors argue that long-run changes in forest cover in a country or region cannot be separated from the overall pattern of land use changes, and this pattern is determined by relative land values.

TL;DR: According to KASSA, conservation agriculture is less adopted in Europe compared to other adopting regions and, reduced tillage is more common than no-tillage and cover crops.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated land consolidation as an essential tool to create sustainable rural areas in Lithuania and found that the consolidation of land ownerships may be an effective and active land management instrument which not only addresses the problems of land fragmentation, but also, if applied sensitively, may deliver sustainable rural development in a wider context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the outcome of a survey conducted in north-eastern Germany aimed at analysing farmers' acceptance of different conservation measures and find that despite the general assumption that farmers' decisions are mostly driven by economic rationality, costs were not the most important factor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used statistical techniques to estimate the part of a price due to a particular attribute of a commodity, assessed the external effects of neighbourhood parks on the transaction price of high-rise private residential units in Hong Kong and found that neighbourhood parks could lift price by 16.88%, including 14.93% for availability and 1.95% for view.

TL;DR: The main forest transitions that took place in south-central Chile from the end of the last glaciation to the present are reviewed in this paper with the aim of identifying the main climatic and socio-economic drivers of land cover change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an historic landscape description of the area, highlighting significant natural, ecological and cultural heritage and its importance for tourism and the rural economy, and analyse the acceptability and the assessment of different qualities in relation to wind farm siting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Welsh Assembly Government developed a spatial planning framework for wind energy and examined how particular landscapes became identified as "acceptable locations" for wind farms, and the consequences of these decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the synergies between socio-metabolic energy use and landscape patterns, starting from the hypothesis that there is a complex and changing relationship between the efficiency in both the societal use of energy, and land-use, and the ecosystem functioning of the whole land matrix of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical analysis of the role of land fragmentation, crop biodiversity and their interplay with farm profitability and find that crop biodiversity plays a beneficial role in farm profitability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the constraints to the development of CDM A/R projects and the features of successful CDM-A/R applications and argue that the CDM needs to be reformed to support more CDM afforestation or reforestation projects, particularly with regards to incorporating greater flexibility, simplifying the methodological and documentation procedures, and redefining the role of the UNFCCC from one of adjudication to one of facilitation.

TL;DR: A tripartite conceptualization of tenure security that incorporates its three constituent components (perception, de jure, de facto) and clarifies their interrelations is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how global integration of many types, ranging from remittances, state transfers, skilling and markets produced forest recovery in peasant landscapes in Latin America.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of 90 interviews with farmers who participated in a result-oriented AEM in Baden-Wuerttemberg (Germany).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between urbanization, household energy source, and forest cover at the state level in India using available census, survey, and remote sensing analysis from the 1990s and 2000s.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief evaluation of the relationship between trends in transport emissions and urban land-use by analysing correlation between transport CO 2 emissions data, GDP and population data with land use change data from the CORINE database for EU Member States between 1990 and 2000 is provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined hill farming in the Peak District National Park as a case study into the future of marginal agriculture after decoupling, and developed linear programming models of production decisions for each farm type.

TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire survey was executed in a spatially stratified sample amongst inhabitants of the city of Ghent (Flanders, Belgium) to determine individual differences in the importance appended to several landscape dimensions for landscape aesthetic preference.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of local residents in the districts of Dithmarschen and North Frisia showed that aesthetic seascape perception alone cannot account for local attitudes to offshore wind farming.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore local factors that, on aggregate, may be of relevance to planning outcomes of proposed windfarms in rural England, using an existing small area GIS dataset of 117 variables related to education, health, demography, employment and housing.

TL;DR: In this paper, Mather coined the term "forest transition" and outlined a theory to explain it, and carried out a series of careful historical studies to illustrate the idea and suggest that the idea of the forest transition, like the much critiqued idea of a demographic transition in population studies, has become a useful theoretical tool for understanding contemporary land use changes.

TL;DR: Parking lots cover 5.65 km 2 (1 397 km 2 ) of Tippecanoe County, Indiana as discussed by the authors, which implies that 0.44% of the county area is devoted to parking lots.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify, examine and compare a range of methodological approaches to carrying capacity assessment and consider their relevance to future spatial planning, including integrated systems analysis, dynamic responses, levels of risk, systemic constraints, applicability to future planning and the consideration of regional boundary delineation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the usefulness of game theory for analyzing and predicting the behaviour of actors in decision-making processes with respect to the development of land and property. But they also found many limitations of using game theory in their case study especially regarding the assumptions underlying the model, and concluded that game theory can be a useful decision support tool in spatial planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a study to determine soil erosion problems and the factors that affect the adoption of SWC measures in Fincha'a watershed, western Ethiopia, using a semi-structured questionnaire, and two group discussions with 20 farmers.

TL;DR: In this paper, changes in the land use pattern of the Yellow River Basin were analyzed using Landsat TM data in 1990, 1995 and 2000, and the aim was to improve the understanding of changes in land use with a view to identifying potentially more sustainable systems of land use.