Wildings threaten existing indigenous flora and fauna, visual landscape and land use values.
Model solutions may help planners understand how alternative model formulations are associated with spatial variation in active versus passive land uses, values of important output measures such as residential satisfaction, and the special role that vacant land plays in regional development policies that can be classified as smart growth or smart decline.
While this shift reduces storm damage, it undermines high land-use values, leading to a significantly reduced total community asset position, as depicted in Fig. 5d.
There is sufficient space in the United States to site large-scale renewable energy technologies, yet siting decisions are often highly contentious with conflicting land-use values.
Commercial land contributes some 74% to total agricultural land use production value and 79% of livestock production value.
In particular, the planning process could be able to identify the "land use" levels (value and distribution of density of residences and activities) consistent with the capacity at disposal of each element of the transport system.
The scope of Payment for Ecosystem Service PESS) approaches to effectively and efficiently address climate regulation will depend on the spatial distribution of the carbon assimilation capacity, current land use, the value of avoided emissions and land owners' objectives and preferences in terms of participating in initiatives to increase SOC.
A first examination of the behaviour of both the exponent b and the threshold coefficient k, which reflects the resistance of the site to gully head development, shows clear effects of land use on the value of k whereas the value of b does not seem to be affected.
With these challenges in mind, our integrated approach incorporates GIS-based data with expert knowledge to consider two different land use interests – biodiversity value for conservation and timber production potential – with the focus on a complex mountain landscape in the French Alps.
We develop a procedure for assessing the environmental value of landscape mosaics that simultaneously considers the values of land use patches and the values of the boundaries between them.
