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Tourism management involves using a systematic approach to spatial planning that involves multiple variables in land planning. However, it is common to find multiple approaches for the more negative aspects of tourism, such as its impact on natural spaces. On the other hand, the idea of including tourism in land planning finds unanimous support in academia. Although scientific research on tourism and land planning in natural areas is significant, many topics do not receive sufficient attention and the domain has not yet been subject to a systematic analysis, which is the purpose of the present study. To this end, bibliometric data is gathered from the Scopus database and analyzed through a bibliometric approach involving keyword analysis with Pearson correlation coefficient. The results indicate that development, landscaping, and management are the most researched topics, followed by community and system, natural/nature, and the local community. The results of the detailed analysis of the word "tourism" connected with planning in natural spaces reveal that research in the area defends sustainable management, economic growth, energy management and monitoring, and the adoption of a green economy model by the hospitality industry. By featuring the overall structure of research on tourism and land planning in natural spaces published in Scopus, this study provides helpful and timely information to researchers, scholars, destination managers, industry managers, and tourism and hospitality consultants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable land management is one of the key actions for the achievement of objectives set by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, land represents a fundamental resource to address issues of climate change, biodiversity preservation, maintaining ecosystem services, and at the same time ensuring shared prosperity and well-being. Therefore, it is necessary to activate strategies to monitor changes in land use and land cover in order to evaluate strategies for proper management. To do this, the new open source geospatial analysis tools and the increasing availability of remote sensed open data can allow the activation of methodologies for monitoring changes in land use and land cover in order to provide data usable in other research areas or, for example, to implement a decision support system for environmental sustainability. In this study, a GIS approach based on open remote sensing data has been used to perform a spatial analysis of land cover changes within the Basilicata region (Southern Italy) that is spatially expeditious yet accurate. The results showed a very evident land transformation with important repercussions on the environmental components. The ease of use of techniques makes this methodology replicable in other territory and can be used as a preliminary approach to sustainable development model.

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Due to the fact that our country is located on the Alps-Himalayan earthquake belt and there are many faults, the occurrence of this earthquake on this plateau is a natural thing to take into account the fact that 66% of our land area is located in earthquake zones and 90% of the country's population. We live in these areas to identify high risk seismic sites to reduce earthquake damage. In this study, earthquake hazard in south Khorasan province is estimated and zoned based on probabilistic method. In order to implement this method, 7 potential seismic springs in the area were first identified based on the frequency of earthquakes and fault types and defined in Arc GIS software and defined as single layer. Earthquake data uniformly used earthquakes consisting of 5 historical earthquakes and 486 earthquakes from 1900 to 2015. The earthquake data were entered into ZMAP software and the aftershocks and aftershocks as well as earthquakes witcalculated by the Gutenberg-Richter relation of values a and b. Then, using the KIJKO 2001 software, the values of β, λ and expected maximum value (Mmax) were calculated and in the final step the acceleration of the springs activity using EZ-FRISK 7.52 software for the period Returns of 50, 100, 475, 1000, and 2475 years were estimated. According to the results, the eastern and western parts of South Khorasan province are more seismic than other parts. Mapping maps and faults of the region are defined as different layers in GIS environment.

As operational concept, geodiversity implies a measurement and its application narrowed to a given spatial area, allowing the identification of clusters for prioritization and planning purposes. This study proposes a first geodiversity index assessment for French Guiana, a French Oversea territory located within the Guiana Shield (South America). Almost entirely covered by the Amazon rainforest associated with an exceptional biodiversity, French Guiana appears as an international conservation and land planning challenge facing multiple issues (e.g., urban, agricultural and industrial growth, forest management, mining planning). Geodiversity assessment is performed through a grid-based approach. A geodiversity index is calculated as the sum of four sub-indices (lithodiversity and unlithified diversity, mineral diversity, hydrodiversity, geomorphodiversity). The index calculation is based on the number of entities within each grid-cell. Spatial correlation is used to identify geodiversity clusters and finally the index is aggregated at different spatial units relevant for land planning (e.g., municipalities, hydrographic sectors, areas of ecological interest, the Guiana Amazonian Park, and the Departmental Mining Plan). The results show that the geodiversity index is mainly controlled by lithodiversity and that high geodiversity clusters are located along the gold-bearing greenstone belts crossing the territory. However, spatialized data concerning geodiversity are still inadequate or unavailable to perform proper operational assessments in French Guiana. Furthermore, based on qualitative examples, we discuss that the assessment of diversity alone might not be always enough for geoconservation nor land planning perspectives. It is pivotal to account for the geonfunctionality—i.e., the contribution of geodiversity to the functioning of socio-ecological systems—and its interaction with anthropic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mining can be the source and target of opportunities and threats of different natures exceeding the mine site perimeter, affecting the socio-ecological system and leading to social conflicts and entrepreneurial risks for mining companies. Hence, a mining project is a matter of land planning rather than a simple industrial object. Nevertheless, current mandatory risk and impact assessment methods are often performed on one project at a time, neglecting the coexistence of different mining activities and the socio-ecological vulnerability of the territory where mining takes place. This paper proposes an original risk-based approach to develop and compare different territorial mining scenarios (TMSs) to support land-planning strategies in mining territories, tested on the French Guiana gold mining sector. Five TMSs combining different mine types (e.g., legal artisanal, medium, large-scale mining, illegal mining) were developed for the same total amount of gold production at the watershed level. For each TMS, both accidental and ordinary risk scenarios were assessed through a GIS-based approach considering watershed socio-ecological vulnerability. Risks were finally weighted according to different stakeholders' perception, and the TMSs were compared based on their global risk scores. Despite the multiple challenges highlighted, this paper highlights the feasibility of a methodological framework to support mining planning at the territory level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Si-available (Siap) content in the soil of paddy fields is decreasing, so it will affect decreasing the productivity of paddy fields. Soil type maps can be used to estimate the potential Siap content in paddy fields. The purpose of this study was to assess the productivity of the paddy field in West Java Province based on the Siap potential in each region using maps of soil types and paddy productivity data. This research was conducted in West Java Province. The research was carried out from February 2021 to March 2021. The research method used was the descriptive research method. This research is secondary data analysis so that no field test is carried out. The validation of the data from the analysis was based on the literature from the previous researchers. The parameters measured in this study were: the distribution of paddy fields, the percentage of soil types in each paddy field, the average productivity of paddy field on each type of soil, the distribution of paddy productivity levels, the potential for Siap to paddy productivity and map of the potential distribution of Siap in West Java Province. Secondary data obtained were then analyzed using spatial analysis and descriptive analysis. The results of the spatial analysis show that 77% of paddy fields in West Java have medium Siap potential, 17% low and 7% high. The results of the correlation analysis show that the productivity of paddy plants has a strong correlation (r = 0.99) to the Siap of paddy soil. The soil maps can be used to estimate the potential of Siap and the productivity of paddy plants. The Si application was recommended in paddy fields in the southern region of West Java Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to enhance the safety management of high consequence areas (HCAs) of oil and gas pipelines and effectively control the safety risk of personnel intensive HCAs, an investigation was performed for the causes of HCAs, the typical accident cases and the influence scope of consequence in personnel intensive HCAs were analyzed, and comparison was made to the identification criteria of HCAs at home and abroad. According to the statistics of the current situation of the personnel intensive HCAs of the existing and new pipelines in China, there are 1 523 and 517 personnel intensive HCAs for every 1×104 km existing oil and gas pipelines, respectively, and the pipeline section in the personnel intensive HCAs accounts for about 18% of the total length of the new oil and gas pipelines. In this study, the two main reasons for the continuous formation of the HCAS were analyzed, including lack of optimization for new pipeline routing and effective control of land using around the existing pipeline, and the whole process management system of the HCAs was put forward, including prevention before planning, assessment during planning and control after formation. Further, suggestions were proposed from the aspects of formulating the land division method and control requirements around the oil and gas pipelines, defining the safe distance of oil and gas pipelines and promoting the construction of urban pipeline corridor.

The need for energy and the increasing importance of climate change mitigation are leading to a conversion from conventional to renewable energy sources. Solar photovoltaic (PV) power has seen the most significant increase among all renewable energy sources. However, most of these installations are land-based, significantly changing global land use (LU). The real impacts, whether positive or negative, are poorly understood. This study was undertaken to have a better understanding of the impacts of solar parks on the microclimate and vegetation dynamics. First, different solar parks were visited to take measurements of the surface temperature (Tsurf), photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), air temperature (Tair), and humidity (RH) to quantify the microclimate and perform a vegetation relevé. The measurements were taken at different positions: underneath, in between, and outside solar panels. For vegetation, the data were first converted to diversity indices, which in turn contributed to a multi-indicator land use impact assessment that evaluated effects on vegetation, biodiversity, soil and water. Solar parks had clear effects on microclimate: if the panels were high enough from the ground, they could lower the Tsurf by providing shade and enough airflow. Additionally, the multidimensional functional diversity (FD) analysis of the vegetation indicated that there was less light at a higher humidity and lower temperature underneath the panels. Interestingly, the species underneath the panels also preferred a lower pH and a higher nitrogen level. Finally, the land use impact assessment found that the total land use impact for a wheat field was higher than that of the solar park, which suggests that the conversion of conventional intensive agriculture to a solar park would be beneficial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Farmland is one of the key factors affecting national or regional food security, and farmland suitability evaluation can provide critical information for the spatial layout of farmland. Previous studies have mainly focused on the role of natural factors in suitability evaluation, while ignoring the important influence of socio-economic activities. This study selects natural factors such as elevation and slope and non-agriculturalization sensitivity factors to build a farmland suitability evaluation framework of "natural non-agriculturalization sensitivity", quantify the farmland suitability, and uses GIS technology to classify the evaluation results into four levels: highly, moderately, barely, and unsuitable. The results show that the non-agriculturalization sensitivity of farmland in Hubei Province shows the spatial characteristics of multi-point clustering, with density increasing from west and north to central and east; the overall farmland suitability in Hubei Province is high, and the areas of highly, moderately, barely, and unsuitable farmland account for 2.32%, 67.69%, 11.49%, and 18.50%, respectively. In terms of spatial distribution, there are obvious spatial differences in the farmland suitability, with highly and moderately suitable areas mainly distributed in the central and eastern regions and barely suitable and unsuitable areas mainly distributed in the western, northeastern, and southeastern parts of Hubei Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The planning of rural land space utilization is a very important problem. In this paper, the objective function of rural land use planning was analyzed firstly, and then the improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm was obtained by improving the inertia weight for solution. The results showed that the land space use in the study area was more reasonable after the planning based on the IPSO algorithm, the forest land and construction land increased, the area of grassland, cultivated land and water area reduced appropriately, the aggregation degree of all types of land improved, and the space distribution was more planned, which was more conducive to production activities. The analysis results verify the effectiveness of the IPSO method in land space use planning, which can improve the efficiency and benefit of land space use, and it can be popularized in practical application.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the use of agricultural land on the territory of united communities and their individual districts of Zhytomyr region as the smallest units of the administrative territorial division of Ukraine. The relevance of this study, due to current changes in national land relations, dictates the need to have information about agricultural lands, their owners, tenants and the lands status for planning agricultural production, the land-leases development, sale of land. The analysis of land use was carried out according to the following indicators: location of land plots of all owners within the community district and the whole community; their area; monetary evaluation; status of documents for each land plot, in particular the availability of lease, land cultivation presence. The initial data of the researches is the data of the state land cadastre database, and data of the real property rights register, both in general access and in need of special access. As a result of the research there were defined areas and location of lands of some landowners, who leased their lands and areas of lands not leased, also there were defined areas of lands, used illegally, without any documents on land use, defined areas of lands, used or owned by agricultural producers (farms, physical persons, legal entities). A cartographic core was created for the purpose of convenient planning of agricultural land use and land management within selected districts on the territory of the community.

While there is a growing demand with participation and consultation from the public, relating to infrastructure projects or land planning, critics point out the inadequacy of these mechanisms. The low number, or even the absence, of certain profiles are often criticized by suggesting that the use of digital technology could overcome some of these limitations. The collaborative design of an experimental digital concertation platform, for land planner, provides an opportunity to analyze the conditions of digital participation. This experimentation helps to identify some of the contributions resulting from digital technology in terms of information, transparency and traceability. It also helps to explore few elements from the complementarity between face-to-face and digital debate mechanisms.

These data are coming from the derogation requests for the destruction of protected species in the context of construction or development work in France. These derogation requests include, among other things, the contents of an environmental impact assessment and the costs of the measures suggested to reduce the impact on the environment. In the article connected to this dataset, we studied the quality of the plant translocation protocols proposed in 95 derogation files (see Julien et al., 2022). We additionally collected during the reading of the files data that we make available here about the costs of (i) the total project, (ii) the mitigation hierarchy and (iii) the plant translocation operations and monitoring. These data complement our aforementioned paper by documenting how much translocations cost and in what proportion of the other costs reported in the projects we evaluated for quality. These data can be helpful for environmental stakeholders but also to further studies to determine the extent to which the environment is considered in land planning.

Principle 12 of the OECD Principles on Water Governance calls for the evaluation of sustainable water policies, which to be effective must be salient, credible and legitimate. Using a 2021 survey of land and water managers within the Colorado River Basin, we examine the salience, credibility and legitimacy of two approaches to evaluate policies that integrate water and land management: using practitioners' perceptions of policies effectiveness to achieve water sustainability goals, and the importance of indicators to assess the water sustainability of a community. Results show perceptions of policy effectiveness and indicator importance vary with the context of organization and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The risk of negative consequences as a result of flooding caused by natural phenomena to the safety of people and property is a problem that the competent Administrative bodies have to face in matters of water, environment, spatial and urban planning, ensuring effective regulatory coordination and management regarding such risks. The issue involves very diverse and often conflictive aspects, such as the one addressed here, namely the putting in place of effective limits to land uses from the instruments of protection and regulation of the public hydraulic domain and its affected areas, in contrast to the provisions of legislation and municipal urban planning, whilst attempting to maintain the point of balance between the value of public safety, socially acceptable risks and the content of property rights whilst respecting their social function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decade, Paraguay’s municipalities have implemented various land-use planning initiatives aimed at resolving the growing territorial and environmental problems caused by changes in land use, the advance of new activities and uncontrolled urban growth. This research, which was based on an exhaustive survey of municipal officials and technicians in more than 100 municipalities, made it possible to observe the types of land-use planning practices and the factors that inhibit or limit their effectiveness. The main factors cited were the lack of municipal budgets, the lack of national and departmental land-use planning policies to provide coverage and support for local initiatives, the lack of quality tools and information for technical processes, a significant shortage of qualified technical personnel in land-use planning, and many difficulties in building consensus at the local level, i.e. problems of governance of the planning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to analyse the use of agricultural land on the territory of united communities and their individual districts of Zhytomyr region as the smallest units of the administrative territorial division of Ukraine. The relevance of this study, due to current changes in national land relations, dictates the need to have information about agricultural lands, their owners, tenants and the lands status for planning agricultural production, the land-leases development, sale of land. The analysis of land use was carried out according to the following indicators: location of land plots of all owners within the community district and the whole community; their area; monetary evaluation; status of documents for each land plot, in particular the availability of lease, land cultivation presence. The initial data of the researches is the data of the state land cadastre database, and data of the real property rights register, both in general access and in need of special access. As a result of the research there were defined areas and location of lands of some landowners, who leased their lands and areas of lands not leased, also there were defined areas of lands, used illegally, without any documents on land use, defined areas of lands, used or owned by agricultural producers (farms, physical persons, legal entities). A cartographic core was created for the purpose of convenient planning of agricultural land use and land management within selected districts on the territory of the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the electronic process of land management is accelerating, the research on the construction of land use planning system tends to be intensified. This paper combines the concept of traditional farming culture to construct a rural land planning system, and proposes a stacked combination collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm to process traditional farming cultural data and promote the integration of traditional farming cultural data and rural land planning data. Moreover, starting from the existing problems in urban land planning at this stage, this paper proposes the rationality and importance of the land use planning system, and at the same time guarantees that it can be used in a standardised and scientific way. In addition, after explaining the construction purpose of the land use planning system, this paper also explains the tasks, design and corresponding steps to be completed to construct the system. Finally, this paper verifies the performance of this system through experimental research. Through the experimental results, we can see that the method proposed in this paper has a certain effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I will describe a multi-scalar project concerning the municipality of Castelnovo ne' Monti, where I try to develop spaces for socializing in compliance with the distancing constraints that are required at us. The project strengthens structuring elements of this territory by resorting to various interventions. The organization of the small villages connected together working as an integrated system, the insertion of a new central place, the eco-camping project and the three pine forests regeneration without forgetting the desire to spread the interest in two authentic treasures: Pietra of Bismantova and Gessi Triassici of the Secchia valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Irazú volcano in Costa Rica is one of the most active and potentially dangerous volcanoes in Central America. Over the last 2600 years (before 1723 CE) it has experienced at least thirty explosive events of Strombolian, phreatomagmatic, and phreatic character and from different vent areas, ranging in size from VEI 1 to VEI 3, generating lava flows, lahars, non-eruptive sector collapses, and strong seismicity, even without eruptions. Recent tephrochronological data confirm that this volcano has had an eruption frequency ranging from 23 to 100 years, with a major event every 85 years. Several thousands of people live in the vicinity of the Irazú volcano, in areas that may be heavily impacted by lahars, ash falls, and pyroclastic density currents. Moreover, >2.5 million people live in the Greater Metropolitan Area, at the heart of the Costa Rica economy, located <30 km to the west of the volcano subject to the prevalent wind direction that has controlled ash fall emplacement for historical eruptions. In this contribution we conduct a long-term hazard assessment that aims to anticipate when (temporal analysis), where (volcanic susceptibility, i.e., vent location), and how (eruption scenarios) the next explosive episodes at Irazú volcano will occur. This information is essential to implement more rational territorial planning and to design better emergency plans for coping with future volcanic crises. • Irazú is one of the most active and potentially dangerous volcanoes in Costa Rica. • Over the last 2600 years it has experienced at least thirty explosive events. • Its eruption frequency ranges from 23 to 100 years, with a major event every 85 years. • >2.5 million people live in <30 km distance from the volcano center. • When, where, and how next explosive episodes may occur are anticipated with a long term hazard assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study documents the impacts of engineering works on flood risk and channel dynamics of the maximum geomorphic flow reach of the Middle Ebro River (Spain) over the last ninety years. The map reveals how the construction of transversal transport lines and their ineffective design and maintenance has contributed to an elevated risk of flooding and channel avulsion at this location. In addition, the development of flood protection structures has restricted the natural dynamics of the river. These modifications have restricted the passage of flood waters, ultimately increasing flood hazards, by changing the area and depth of inundation and extending the flood hydrograph. The map allows for the interpretation of key processes, forecasting of flood hazards, and the evaluation of possible mitigating actions. These findings reconfirm that reducing space for the mobility of a river is not a good management solution and further aggravates the current situation.

Tourism management involves using a systematic approach to spatial planning that involves multiple variables in land planning. However, it is common to find multiple approaches for the more negative aspects of tourism, such as its impact on natural spaces. On the other hand, the idea of including tourism in land planning finds unanimous support in academia. Although scientific research on tourism and land planning in natural areas is significant, many topics do not receive sufficient attention and the domain has not yet been subject to a systematic analysis, which is the purpose of the present study. To this end, bibliometric data is gathered from the Scopus database and analyzed through a bibliometric approach involving keyword analysis with Pearson correlation coefficient. The results indicate that development, landscaping, and management are the most researched topics, followed by community and system, natural/nature, and the local community. The results of the detailed analysis of the word “tourism” connected with planning in natural spaces reveal that research in the area defends sustainable management, economic growth, energy management and monitoring, and the adoption of a green economy model by the hospitality industry. By featuring the overall structure of research on tourism and land planning in natural spaces published in Scopus, this study provides helpful and timely information to researchers, scholars, destination managers, industry managers, and tourism and hospitality consultants.

The tourism debate prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was dominated by the problems inherent in overtourism, reflecting an inadequate land management. Although publications on overtourism have grown exponentially in recent years, its scientific study still has major shortcomings, particularly with regard to measurement. With the aim of overcoming this insufficiency, we have carried out a review of the literature (using the mapping review method) and, based on its conclusions, we have drawn up a proposal to systematise the measurement of overtourism by combining several tools: indicators, surveys, interviews, and other tools linked to the Internet and social networks. The results of the research make a contribution to the expansion of the literature on the topic and may have important practical implications in formulating effective land-use policies by guiding policy makers in the management of overtourism. They could be of use in both the early detection of overtourism and the design of policies that prevent and/or detect situations of risk and that correct existing problems. This is especially relevant in the current international context to implement the effective transition to a responsible tourism model post-COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To solve the problems caused by irrational land-use, studying the functions of land-use, its changing characteristics, and the relationship between each land-use function will be beneficial for achieving sustainable land development. In this research, we constructed an evaluation framework of multiple land-use functions (LUFs) based on sustainable land-use theory. Specifically, we classified the multiple LUFs into three types: agricultural production function (APF), living function (LVF), and ecological service function (ESF). We then spatialized the economic and social data, and implemented the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) model and RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) model to evaluate each sub-LUF (crop production, aquatic production, woodlands production, livestock production, living space, life quality, water supply, soil conservation, climate regulation, biological conservation) in central China in 2000 and again in 2015. Moreover, by analyzing the changes to LUFs and the relationships between each LUF change, we were able to discern patterns of LUF change in central China. The results show that: 1) 42.12% of total territory in the study area increased their APF from 2000 to 2015, while 43.41% of the lands increased their ESF yet only 8.98% of the lands increased their LVF; 2) in Hubei and Hunan, there was more land with an increase of APF than in Anhui or Jiangxi. The APF in Jiangxi exhibited the greatest decline over time period, the LVF increased more in the provincial capital cities than in other regions, and the ESF expanded more in Jiangxi than in the other provinces; and 3) the changes in APF were significantly and positively correlated with changes in LVF. Additionally, changes in ESF were negatively but non-significantly correlated with changes in APF and LVF. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

River classifications are a useful technical procedure to simplify reality and discriminate into types with homogeneous characteristics. The experimental test presented, developed on the Galician fluvial network, try to combine Geographic Information Systems and three geomorphological variables (lithology, slope, and density of fractures) to identify potential reaches of rivers over rock. The method used was structured in four sequential stages: (i) inventory of bedrock river sites, (ii) characterization of the inventoried sites, (iii) typification of the drainage network and (iv) method validation. The results achieved provide a first mapping to know the probability to exist a bedrock river (reach) for more than 30.000 km of channels. 37% of the network has a high probability of being a bedrock river and 21% a low or no probability. The remaining 42% move at medium probability. Spatial distribution by type of rivers should be useful for basin authorities and that their protocols which consider, firstly, the characteristics of bedrock rivers due to their singularity and repercussion on the dynamics of the river, and, secondly, the flourishing of rules to protect the geodiversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the development of artificial intelligence and machine vision technology, the analysis of human motion and the integration of remote sensing image recognition technology have become the current research focus of the industry. Walking recognition based on high-resolution remote sensing images is mainly for the purpose of analyzing images containing human motion and recognition based on human motion patterns. Combining computer vision systems, pattern recognition, and video and image sequence processing, it is important to find reliable walking functions and classification methods. Moreover, high-resolution remote sensing technology is applied to the field of land use and planning and not only can provide more accurate time series and data sources, but also provide help for the study of regional-scale land use cover changes. Remote sensing image interpretation can obtain regional land use cover change data, which is an important reference for land use planning. Focusing on this theme, this paper studies coastal land use planning based on high-resolution remote sensing images, beach sports human image recognition, and gait feature extraction. After researching and analyzing the remote sensing image sequence of space motion, the characteristic parameters of the land environment and moving objects are obtained, and the program is automatically calculated. The main analysis is the method of correct and fast tracking of the target in the case of uneven lighting, lighting changes, rapid object movement, and partial occlusion of object deformation. This is a new research direction as well as a new development direction, but because it is still in the initial research process, it is hoped that the research in this article can provide reference and experience for later research and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rationality of regional land planning needs to be evaluated through intelligent technology and continuously optimized. At present, most land planning is temporarily adjusted according to actual needs, so it does not have real-time dynamics. In order to improve the rationality of regional land planning, based on BP neural network, this study combined the spatial mining technology to construct a regional land planning model, and used BP neural network and SVM technology to establish a relationship model between the impact factor value and distance scale factor. Moreover, based on the gray system theory, this study uses the gray correlation model to measure the coupling degree between industrial structure and land use, and analyzes the correlation between various factors. In addition, the artificial neural network after learning and testing can be used for dynamic simulation calculations. The research results show that this algorithm has some practical effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In British Columbia (Canada), the TransMountain pipeline expansion project and the Coastal GasLink pipeline construction project have been the subject of intense controversy. Opponents to these land use projects are primarily First Nations Native groups. In a context of reconciliation between the federal government and Native peoples, First Nations benefit from specific laws requiring the Government of Canada to consult them on certain types of projects. The concept of consent has consequently emerged in the debate. There is currently no legal requirement to obtain consent, except for projects on land where the Native peoples have an explicitly recognized title. However, in British Columbia, most of the provincial territory is not covered by treaties between Canada and First Nations, and this opens the way to legal interpretations that fuel representations, sometimes contradictory, and various strategies. The purpose of this article is to explore the diversity of First Nations’ positions in conflicts over the construction of oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, and to expose the power games that characterize these development projects. To do this, we rely both on the theory of the strategic actor, which we enrich with a territorial component, and on the analysis of local geopolitical systems in British Columbia, in order to analyze the repercussions of gas pipeline projects.

This paper aims to investigate the extent to which ecosystem services maps can improve land-use planning decisions by strengthening the consideration of environmental issues. The methodology used is based on an experimental workshop simulating a participatory decision-making process for planning choices by a panel of territorial actors. The protocol of the workshop consists in comparing the choices of location of new areas to be urbanized based firstly on a fine land cover map and secondly, by using a sample of ecosystem services maps. The results show the participants’ interest in having ecosystem service maps for planning decision making. According to them, they bring an added value in terms of discovery, coherence, efficiency and acceptability of multifunctional space management practices. However, the operational actors of territorial engineering still make very little use of these maps derived from remote sensing and participatory workshops.

Agricultural land use plays a critical role in land planning sustainability. Employing a GIS-based decision-making protocol based on spatial and management data represents an appropriate tool for land planning. The Italian vineyards database presented here describes several spatial and management features of 3686 sample vineyards distributed throughout Italy. The dataset is presented as a centroid shapefile with the attribute table. The features were assessed with a GIS-based geospatial analysis. Parameters such as training system and shape of the vineyard block were attributed through visual assessment of Google Earth images. Row spacing, length-width ratio and headland size were determined using QGIS measuring tools. The mean and maximum slope was derived using a 20 m spatial resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM). This database may help to establish planting criteria of new vineyards which comply with rational and sustainable requirements. Moreover, the dataset could be combined with other agricultural land use data for further analysis of land management. Furthermore, the database could be implemented to support global-scale vineyard management.

With the acceleration of urbanization, human needs to connect with the nature and experience the aesthetic qualities such as landscape aesthetic, fresh air, topographic diversity and green infrastructures. Hence, landscape aesthetic quality is regarded as a valuable source of conservation. The purpose of landscape visual quality assessment is to identify the criteria for preserving and rehabilitating the aesthetic value based on them. In order to quantify the aesthetic value, after bringing the literature review and considering the characteristics of the study area, the effective criteria on the aesthetic value were determined, mapped and then standardized. In the next step, areas with aesthetic value were determined using the weighted linear combination method. Finally, areas with varying degrees of suitability of aesthetic were identified. According to the results, the regions with the highest aesthetics value and the area of 40.64 Km2 had the minimum area, while those with the low aesthetic value and the area of 477.65 Km2 had the maximum area. The results of this study can be useful for decision makers to improve the landscape management and quality.

An accurate understanding of physical and socio-economic effects of landslides is fundamental to develop more refined risk management, mitigation strategies and land use policies. In this paper we develop a measure to consider the interconnection between physical and economic exposure, i.e. what we call the economic landslide susceptibility, namely the probability of landslide occurrence in an area weighted for its socio-economic exposure considering the real-estate market values. The economic landslide susceptibility is estimated through a method designed for large areas that we applied to the Umbria Region (Central Italy). The method makes use of landslide susceptibility maps and a real estate market value map for any given area under analysis. The innovative concept of economic landslide susceptibility (that is de facto an ex ante landslide cost assessment) may be interpreted as the potential loss that an area might suffer in terms of its propensity for landslides. Useful applications of the proposed method lie in a better territorial management and in the land use planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Almost since the constitution of the Canary Islands as an autonomous community, the legislator has been concerned with getting a land management that responds to their territorial singularities, which accounts for regulation in this matter. The current regulatory framework, even giving continuity to the Canary Planning System established in the previous one, introduces significant changes of importance. The aim of this paper is to analyse those innovations introduced by the current regulatory framework of environmental, territorial and urban planning for the planning system, considering the most outstanding changes and/or that have had some response, such as the elimination of management instruments and the incorporation of others, the elimination of the two-phase plan approval procedure or the elimination of the Canary Islands Territory and Environment Planning Commission (COTMAC). The case of Maspalomas Costa Canaria is analysed to highlight the complexity of the planning system, as well as the relationship between the regulatory framework and territorial reality. The rules of the environmental, territorial, and urban planning of the Canary Islands have changed with the current regulatory framework, which makes their analysis relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Soybean has undergone the greatest expansion of any global crop, fuelled by the emergence of herbicide-resistant crops. In Uruguay, soybean croplands have increased from virtually zero to more than 1 million ha in 20 years. Uruguay is also implementing its system of protected areas. Here, we assess the presence of pesticides within a Ramsar site and protected area, in a basin dominated by croplands. We consider pesticides as surrogates of the subtle impacts of agribusiness on conservation initiatives and other productions. Pesticides were found in soils, fishes and beehives, both within and around the protected area. Endosulfan was found in all matrices analysed (23 of 80 samples), while glyphosate (0–2.31 mg/kg) and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA; 0–0.61 mg/kg) were found in all soil classes. The study also allowed for a retrospective evaluation of a recent policy banning endosulfan in Uruguay, suggesting that while the protected area has not been immune to the impacts of agribusiness on human health or biodiversity, limiting the use of pesticides reduces or avoids some of them. This has implications for the design of multifunctional landscapes and for the debate on land sharing versus land sparing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Farmland is one of the key factors affecting national or regional food security, and farmland suitability evaluation can provide critical information for the spatial layout of farmland. Previous studies have mainly focused on the role of natural factors in suitability evaluation, while ignoring the important influence of socio-economic activities. This study selects natural factors such as elevation and slope and non-agriculturalization sensitivity factors to build a farmland suitability evaluation framework of “natural non-agriculturalization sensitivity”, quantify the farmland suitability, and uses GIS technology to classify the evaluation results into four levels: highly, moderately, barely, and unsuitable. The results show that the non-agriculturalization sensitivity of farmland in Hubei Province shows the spatial characteristics of multi-point clustering, with density increasing from west and north to central and east; the overall farmland suitability in Hubei Province is high, and the areas of highly, moderately, barely, and unsuitable farmland account for 2.32%, 67.69%, 11.49%, and 18.50%, respectively. In terms of spatial distribution, there are obvious spatial differences in the farmland suitability, with highly and moderately suitable areas mainly distributed in the central and eastern regions and barely suitable and unsuitable areas mainly distributed in the western, northeastern, and southeastern parts of Hubei Province.

Land use, which involves rational exploitation of the facilities, resources and talents of different regions of a country, is a comprehensive attitude in the planning that addresses all aspects of economical, cultural, political, security, and so on. One of the most important aspects of the land planning is its defensive, security and politics dimension. In this research, first, the strength and weakness opportunities and threats of East Azarbaijan province were identified in terms of defense, political and security affairs, then they were summed up and presented appropriate strategies for East Azarbaijan Province. The method of research in this study is descriptive-analytical and the method of collecting information and data includes documentary and field methods. The data analysis was performed using the SWOT and ANP model and the SUPER DECISION software. The results of this study indicate that the most suitable strategies of this province are invasive / competitive strategies (SO) and diversity (ST). Outbreaks / Competitive Strategies (SO) include: Strengthening strategies and increasing competition and economic exchanges between areas of the province by improving the air and land transport system, promoting the tourism industry and increasing the share of this sector in order to introduce the rich culture and history of the province, and strategies The aggression can also be seen to increase the unity and solidarity among the people in order to increase the region's political and security stability, fight against terrorism across the borders of the country and prevent the spread of terrorism into the country and the province.

The tourism debate prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was dominated by the problems inherent in overtourism, reflecting an inadequate land management. Although publications on overtourism have grown exponentially in recent years, its scientific study still has major shortcomings, particularly with regard to measurement. With the aim of overcoming this insufficiency, we have carried out a review of the literature (using the mapping review method) and, based on its conclusions, we have drawn up a proposal to systematise the measurement of overtourism by combining several tools: indicators, surveys, interviews, and other tools linked to the Internet and social networks. The results of the research make a contribution to the expansion of the literature on the topic and may have important practical implications in formulating effective land-use policies by guiding policy makers in the management of overtourism. They could be of use in both the early detection of overtourism and the design of policies that prevent and/or detect situations of risk and that correct existing problems. This is especially relevant in the current international context to implement the effective transition to a responsible tourism model post-COVID-19.