To control soil erosion and associated land degradation worldwide there is a need to assess the impact of major land use and the effectiveness of specific soil conservation technologies using various approaches.
Some land use experts question the effectiveness of simply buying up land -- there is only so much for sale, and the plot next door may be developed anyway.
Under the issues of climate change and limited resources, a good land use allocation improves city effectiveness, and is also a way of practices reflecting on city's sustainable development.
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of land use planning on construction land growth control at the city level in China.
Our model can be utilized to assess the effectiveness of land use policies in an area and aid in helpful in monitoring the implementation of existing policies and design of new land use policies.
We hypothesise that different peri-urban patterns are driven by geographical, historical, cultural and economic discrepancies between southern and northern Ghana, and reflect the effectiveness of land use planning instruments.
Indeed, more in-depth analysis of efficiency and effectiveness of transport and land use policies on SM appears quite hard to afford at the suburban scale.
By analyzing the simulation result, the effectiveness of the model for land use change simulation was demonstrated.
Overlapping tenures that were in place before the designation of protected areas are important for understanding conservation effectiveness and the potential for land use conflict.
An analysis of the segmentation process is provided, examining the effectiveness of such an approach towards enhancing land use policies.
