Possingham, 53, led a group that developed conservation planning software, called Marxan, that has been used in more than 150 countries for designing nature reserves, zoning plans, and other purposes.
First, there has been a big expansion in the area of rainforest designated as national park or indigenous reserve, or zoned exclusively for logging.
Scientists, environmentalists and the dive industry, however, have been dismayed that only a square kilometre of the commonwealth marine reserve is zoned as closed to extractive industries such as commercial and recreational fishing and mining.
A few, however, show slight reverse zoning.
Local land use planning, zoning and reserve design should consider the spatial aggregation within and between species to determine the appropriate scale for conservation planning.
Under current regulations, nature reserves are subject to zoning that outlines permitted land uses for each area.
The demonstrators were almost evicted from Zuccotti Park last Friday; but were saved, paradoxically, by Zuccotti's status as a private enclave reserved for public use by zoning laws.
Zoning strategies and marine reserves, which have not been widely implemented in sandy beaches, could be a key tool for biodiversity conservation and should also facilitate spillover effects into adjacent beach habitats.
The counties have centralized school districts and zoning policies requiring developers to reserve 15percentt of new housing for low- and moderate-income families.
They notice that Curbed reserves its harshest criticism for those who flout zoning laws or — worse — do uncreative work.
