This procedure may be useful in terms of land use, conservation, and management of protected areas, mainly in areas with high biodiversity but with limited biological data, since it allows to obtain an approximation of the spatial distribution of species richness, even with scarce biological information.
Master planning is for land use, conservation, and development at still larger scales, involving comprehensive areas or units of landscape topography or comprehensive systems such as open space, park-recreation, water and drainage, transportation, or utilities.
This exercise sought to identify the relative compatibility of 10 land uses (conservation, livestock or game ranching, tourism/recreation, rural settlement, dryland cropping, irrigated cropping, dairy farming, plantation forestry, and urban settlement) with maintaining biodiversity integrity.
The return on ivory sales pales in comparison to the financial rewards generated by mixed land-use conservation strategies.
To counteract these, four proposals, or "rules", are advanced: conservation of natural and semi-natural land use area, conservation of dominant plant species physiognomy, compensation for emissions, and the rule of positive defragmentation.
Land use and conservation issues vary across the PPR.
For each peatland, information about land use, hydrology, conservation status, species occurrence and soil is stored in the database.
This suggests that while easements might be appropriate for working lands, their role in reconciling land use with conservation requires a flexible definition of work.
It is also applicable as a decision support system in land use and conservation planning for analysing future land development scenarios.
Popp, A. et al. Additional CO2 emissions from land use change forest conservation as a precondition for sustainable production of second generation bioenergy.
Overall, the EMAS provides valuable decision support for PAs regarding informed land use planning, conservation programs, vital sign monitoring, control programs (fire fuels, invasives, etc)., and restoration efforts.
