The pursuit of human needs and demands is placing more pressure on land resources than ever before. The challenge of feeding 7 billion people is increasingly competing with rising demands for materials and biofuels. D...The pursuit of human needs and demands is placing more pressure on land resources than ever before. The challenge of feeding 7 billion people is increasingly competing with rising demands for materials and biofuels. Deforestation and land degradation are among the pressing outcomes of these trends. Drivers of environmental change—including population growth, economic activity, consumption, urbanization, trade, conflict, and governance—clearly play a role in aggravating or mitigating these pressures on land. Despite advances in understanding causality in complex systems, navigating the interactions between these drivers remains a major challenge. This paper analyzes and visualizes the relationships between multiple, interacting drivers of environmental change and specific pressures on land-based ecosystems. Drawing on experience from the development of the Drivers and Land chapters of the UN Environment Programme’s Fifth Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-5), we use a series of Kiviat diagrams to illustrate the relative influence of key drivers on selected pressures on land. When individual diagrams are overlaid, patterns of influence emerge that can provide insight into where policy responses might best be targeted. We propose that, subject to some limitations, the Kiviat exercise can provide an accessible and potentially valuable “knowledge-intermediary” tool to help link science-based information to policy action.展开更多
The grey forecast and the sustainable use evaluation are conducted on the data of farmland resources from 2010 to 2020 in Pingingshan City by using the area of farmland land from 1999 to 2010 and by applying the grey ...The grey forecast and the sustainable use evaluation are conducted on the data of farmland resources from 2010 to 2020 in Pingingshan City by using the area of farmland land from 1999 to 2010 and by applying the grey forecast and land pressure system.The results show that from 2010 to 2020 the quantity of farmland resources maintains balance;the minimum per capita farmland in Pingdinshan stays around the lower limit of per capita amount of farmland in China;the pressure of farmland is rather huge and the farmland protection is not so optimistic.Therefore,in order to realize the sustainable use of land resources in Pingdinshan City,the government should try to improve the efficiency of farmland use and implement stricter land protection system.as well as the requisition-compensation balance of farmland resources,land consolidation and land reclaimation and so on.展开更多
Based on the introduction of the general situation of research region,pressure index model of cultivated land is adopted according to the data of population,cultivated land area,crop sowing area,grain sowing area,and ...Based on the introduction of the general situation of research region,pressure index model of cultivated land is adopted according to the data of population,cultivated land area,crop sowing area,grain sowing area,and unit grain yield in the Statistical Yearbook of Fengxian County.The change of relevant factors of cultivated land pressure index over time is analyzed,as well as the tension level of cultivated land resources.Research shows that the pressure on cultivated land is relatively great in Fengxian County in the years 1999-2005.Grain supply and demand is still under the unsafe state.There will be more prominent contradiction between supply and demand of cultivated land in Fengxian County in the future,and the grain security will under greater pressure.Several countermeasures are put forward to ease the pressure on cultivated land in Fengxian County,in order to realize the sustainable use of cultivated land resources,to ensure the supply and demand balance of grain and cultivated land,and to stabilize and improve the grain productivity in Fengxian County,such as protecting the current cultivated land resources by the strictest protection system of cultivated land,enhancing the intensity of land development and reclamation,enlarging the area of cultivated land,increasing the agricultural sci-tech input,and improving the grain unit yield.展开更多
This paper focuses on land resource consumption due to urban sprawl. Special attention is given to shrinking regions, characterized by economic decline, demographic change, and high unemployment rates. In these region...This paper focuses on land resource consumption due to urban sprawl. Special attention is given to shrinking regions, characterized by economic decline, demographic change, and high unemployment rates. In these regions, vast terrain is abandoned and falls derelict. A geographic information system (GIS) based multi-criteria decision tool is introduced to determine the reuse potential of derelict terrain, to investigate the possible reuse options (housing, business and trade, industry, services, tourism and leisure, and re-greening), and to visualize the best reuse options for groups of sites on a regional scale. Achievement functions for attribute data are presented to assess the best reuse options based on a multi-attribute technique. The assessment tool developed is applied to a model region in Germany. The application of the assessment tool enables communities to become aware of their resources of derelict land and their reuse potential.展开更多
With the rapid development of urbanization,the industrial parks originally located in the suburbs are gradually incorporated into the urban center.Industries that fail to follow the transformation of urban economic de...With the rapid development of urbanization,the industrial parks originally located in the suburbs are gradually incorporated into the urban center.Industries that fail to follow the transformation of urban economic development and are forced to close,or enterprises that move out without conforming to the environment,become a gray area within the city.Most of the existing assessments are conducting single assessment of some indicators,but than their actual benefits.Through the field investigation on the starting area of Handan Economic Development Zone,and the evaluation on the nature of land use,development intensity,investment and output,and idle land,inefficient land use in the park is identified.According to different evaluation results,different update and promotion methods are put forward.The research could provide a new evaluation method and idea for subsequent renewal and development of urban industrial parks.展开更多
文摘The pursuit of human needs and demands is placing more pressure on land resources than ever before. The challenge of feeding 7 billion people is increasingly competing with rising demands for materials and biofuels. Deforestation and land degradation are among the pressing outcomes of these trends. Drivers of environmental change—including population growth, economic activity, consumption, urbanization, trade, conflict, and governance—clearly play a role in aggravating or mitigating these pressures on land. Despite advances in understanding causality in complex systems, navigating the interactions between these drivers remains a major challenge. This paper analyzes and visualizes the relationships between multiple, interacting drivers of environmental change and specific pressures on land-based ecosystems. Drawing on experience from the development of the Drivers and Land chapters of the UN Environment Programme’s Fifth Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-5), we use a series of Kiviat diagrams to illustrate the relative influence of key drivers on selected pressures on land. When individual diagrams are overlaid, patterns of influence emerge that can provide insight into where policy responses might best be targeted. We propose that, subject to some limitations, the Kiviat exercise can provide an accessible and potentially valuable “knowledge-intermediary” tool to help link science-based information to policy action.
基金Supported by the Key Projects of Science and Technology Plan of Henan Province(102102310299)The Research Fund for Youth inPingdingshan University(2008046)
文摘The grey forecast and the sustainable use evaluation are conducted on the data of farmland resources from 2010 to 2020 in Pingingshan City by using the area of farmland land from 1999 to 2010 and by applying the grey forecast and land pressure system.The results show that from 2010 to 2020 the quantity of farmland resources maintains balance;the minimum per capita farmland in Pingdinshan stays around the lower limit of per capita amount of farmland in China;the pressure of farmland is rather huge and the farmland protection is not so optimistic.Therefore,in order to realize the sustainable use of land resources in Pingdinshan City,the government should try to improve the efficiency of farmland use and implement stricter land protection system.as well as the requisition-compensation balance of farmland resources,land consolidation and land reclaimation and so on.
基金Supported by the Key Project of the National Eleventh-Five Year Research Program of China(2006BAJ05A08)the Open Fund of Jiang-su Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Engineering(20080301)the Science Fund(Youth) of China Univer-sity of Mining & Technology(2006A030)
文摘Based on the introduction of the general situation of research region,pressure index model of cultivated land is adopted according to the data of population,cultivated land area,crop sowing area,grain sowing area,and unit grain yield in the Statistical Yearbook of Fengxian County.The change of relevant factors of cultivated land pressure index over time is analyzed,as well as the tension level of cultivated land resources.Research shows that the pressure on cultivated land is relatively great in Fengxian County in the years 1999-2005.Grain supply and demand is still under the unsafe state.There will be more prominent contradiction between supply and demand of cultivated land in Fengxian County in the future,and the grain security will under greater pressure.Several countermeasures are put forward to ease the pressure on cultivated land in Fengxian County,in order to realize the sustainable use of cultivated land resources,to ensure the supply and demand balance of grain and cultivated land,and to stabilize and improve the grain productivity in Fengxian County,such as protecting the current cultivated land resources by the strictest protection system of cultivated land,enhancing the intensity of land development and reclamation,enlarging the area of cultivated land,increasing the agricultural sci-tech input,and improving the grain unit yield.
基金supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF Berlin)the Federal Office of Building and Regional Planning (BBR Bonn)the State of Thuringia and the State Development Corporation (LEG) Thuringia
文摘This paper focuses on land resource consumption due to urban sprawl. Special attention is given to shrinking regions, characterized by economic decline, demographic change, and high unemployment rates. In these regions, vast terrain is abandoned and falls derelict. A geographic information system (GIS) based multi-criteria decision tool is introduced to determine the reuse potential of derelict terrain, to investigate the possible reuse options (housing, business and trade, industry, services, tourism and leisure, and re-greening), and to visualize the best reuse options for groups of sites on a regional scale. Achievement functions for attribute data are presented to assess the best reuse options based on a multi-attribute technique. The assessment tool developed is applied to a model region in Germany. The application of the assessment tool enables communities to become aware of their resources of derelict land and their reuse potential.
文摘With the rapid development of urbanization,the industrial parks originally located in the suburbs are gradually incorporated into the urban center.Industries that fail to follow the transformation of urban economic development and are forced to close,or enterprises that move out without conforming to the environment,become a gray area within the city.Most of the existing assessments are conducting single assessment of some indicators,but than their actual benefits.Through the field investigation on the starting area of Handan Economic Development Zone,and the evaluation on the nature of land use,development intensity,investment and output,and idle land,inefficient land use in the park is identified.According to different evaluation results,different update and promotion methods are put forward.The research could provide a new evaluation method and idea for subsequent renewal and development of urban industrial parks.
