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Sustainable land use and management research: a scientometric review
ContextThe study of sustainable land use reflects the interdisciplinary characteristics of land science, geography, ecology and sustainability science. In recent years, research on sustainable land use has rapidly increased in scope and speed around the world.ObjectivesTo discuss the trends, research power distribution, key areas, research hotspots and international cooperation in sustainable land use research in the past 20 years.MethodsThis paper used the Bibliometrix and Biblioshiny software packages to entire process of bibliometric analysis and visual display of sustainable land use research papers from 1990 to 2019 (data update time is May 10, 2019).Results(1) The amount of publications in the field of sustainable land use from 1990 to 2019 increased with time and entered a period of rapid growth after 2013. (2) From the perspective of research power, the influence of developed countries in the field of sustainable land use is significantly stronger than that of developing countries. (3) Through high-frequency keyword analysis, land use change, land degradation, and sustainable land management are hotspots in the field of sustainable land use. (4) The themes of sustainable land use have changed greatly in various periods, and some of the themes have strong continuity.ConclusionsIn order to promote the development of sustainable land use, this paper proposes to integrate strong sustainability theory, landscape ecology theory, and geographical design concepts into this field, thereby greatly expanding the theoretical space. Also, this paper proposes to improve the scientificity of the evaluation indicators and use emerging technologies to timely monitor the status and evolution of land use, which can provide scientific basis and decision-making reference for the formulation of sustainable land use strategies, policies, and countermeasures.
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Using water wisely
People who have never had to worry about water coming out of the sink might not think much about it. But wasting water causes great problems for the environment and for people who don't have easy access to clean water. This inviting volume is a call to climate change heroes to use water more wisely in their everyday lives. They'll learn how to stop bad habits and how to nurture new ones for themselves and their friends. Important information and relatable images of young people are presented in comic-book form to intrigue even reluctant readers.
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Past lines, present divides: mapping the biography of boundaries in protected area governance
Protected areas (PAs) represent conservation boundaries with differentiated governance regimes. Understanding their historical emergence is crucial for evaluating their current conservation role and future impact. In this article I examine how the history of boundaries shapes current conservation practices and processes surrounding PAs and the relationships among different stakeholder groups that are part of governance arrangements in these areas, including conflicts and animosity toward groups from across these boundaries. To this end, adjacent sustainable use PAs were selected as case studies. Through 30 semi-structured interviews with co-management stakeholders, I explore perceptions about PAs, their boundaries, and related disputes. While nearby users are excluded from decision making in deliberative councils, this exclusion has not fully materialized in territorial and resource use practices. The historical development of PA boundaries illuminates “othering” processes and tensions arising from transboundary resource use that local governance must address. Temporality plays a role in both the emergence and avoidance of resource disputes, highlighting the need to understand temporal boundaries. The idea of a “biography of boundaries” is used to describe the history of cross-boundary movements, offering important insights for transboundary governance. This biographical approach to understanding boundaries is essential for preventing conflicts and ensuring PAs effectively achieve their dual goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable human livelihoods. Such an understanding includes an insight into how different actor groups create new identities of themselves and others and offers a glimpse at how boundaries might impact conservation in the future. By recognizing how boundaries have evolved and how they shape stakeholder identities and relationships, conservation governance can better address the complex social dynamics that influence PA effectiveness.
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Design with nature now
\"This collection of essays and illustrated projects by landscape architects and planners from PennDesign celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's book about regional planning using natural systems, Design with Nature; showcases ecological design projects from around the world; and demonstrates McHarg's influence on contemporary landscape architects and other practitioners\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Defining Ecosystem Assets for Natural Capital Accounting
In natural capital accounting, ecosystems are assets that provide ecosystem services to people. Assets can be measured using both physical and monetary units. In the international System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, ecosystem assets are generally valued on the basis of the net present value of the expected flow of ecosystem services. In this paper we argue that several additional conceptualisations of ecosystem assets are needed to understand ecosystems as assets, in support of ecosystem assessments, ecosystem accounting and ecosystem management. In particular, we define ecosystems' capacity and capability to supply ecosystem services, as well as the potential supply of ecosystem services. Capacity relates to sustainable use levels of multiple ecosystem services, capability involves prioritising the use of one ecosystem service over a basket of services, and potential supply considers the ability of ecosystems to generate services regardless of demand for these services. We ground our definitions in the ecosystem services and accounting literature, and illustrate and compare the concepts of flow, capacity, capability, and potential supply with a range of conceptual and real-world examples drawn from case studies in Europe and North America. Our paper contributes to the development of measurement frameworks for natural capital to support environmental accounting and other assessment frameworks.
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Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review
Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Central Asia. The sustainable use of agricultural land is therefore essential to economic growth, human well-being, social equity, and ecosystem services. However, salinization, erosion, and desertification cause severe land degradation which, in turn, degrade human health and ecosystem services. Here, we review the impact of agricultural land use in the five countries of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, during 2008–2013 in 362 articles. We use the Land Use Functions framework to analyze the type and relative shares of environmental, economic, and social topics related to agricultural land use. Our major findings are (1) research on land use in Central Asia received high levels of international attention and the trend in the number of publications exceeded the global average. (2) The impacts of land use on abiotic environmental resources were the most explored. (3) Little research is available about how agricultural land use affects biotic resources. (4) Relationships between land degradation, e.g., salinization and dust storms, and human health were the least explored. (5) The literature is dominated by indirect methods of data analysis, such as remote sensing and mathematical modeling, and in situ data collection makes up only a small proportion.
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SDG-oriented multi-scenario sustainable land-use simulation under the background of urban expansion
With the continuous improvement of urbanization level and the continuous expansion of city scale, there are some unreasonable land development and utilization problems, which will make the contradiction between people and land more prominent and the risk of ecological environment deterioration more serious. It hinders the sustainable land use (SLU) and then affects the realization of regional Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs have become a programmatic document for all countries in the world to implement sustainable development. It provides a guideline and direction for the sustainable urban expansion. The sustainable urban expansion promotes the realization of SDGs worldwide. By combining the SDGs with the urban SLU, this paper obtains the optimized future land-use demand of the multi-scenario city and the urban expansion simulation scenario to the SDGs under the multi-scenario through the uncertain mathematical model (MIFCCP) and the spatial simulation model (PLUS). We find that firstly, the net profit of land use (LNB) reaches the highest value under the economic development scenario (ED), when the probability of environmental constraint violation
p
= 0.01 and
p
= 0.15, LNB = [2625.48, 3244.98] × 10
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CNY, and [2646.95, 3271.51] × 10
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CNY. Ecosystem service value (ESV) reached the highest value under the sustainable development scenario (SD), when
p
= 0.01 and
p
= 0.15, ESV = [75.34, 93.12] × 10
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CNY, and [72.62, 95.56] × 10
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CNY. The net carbon emissions from land use (LNC) reached the minimum value in SD scenario, and when
p
= 0.01 and
p
= 0.15, the LNC reached [57.46, 71.02] × 10
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ton and [56.12, 76.04] × 10
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ton. Secondly, the contribution degree of 15 driving factors to the change of local types is excavated, among which, the driving factors of traffic stations have the highest contribution degree to the change of construction land and cultivated land, and the third-class roads have the highest contribution degree to the change of wetland area. Furthermore, by analyzing the indicators related to SLU in SDGs, we can build an optimization model of land use quantity structure under uncertain conditions, and the optimized results can meet the targets of economic benefits, ecological benefits, and net carbon emissions of land use under different development plans. By linking SDGs and SLU, the coupled model framework can provide scientific basis for urban land expansion strategy based on ecological environment constraints and scientific support for sustainable management of land use.
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