Collaborative Landscape Planning: Co-Design of Ecosystem-Based Land Management Scenarios

Collaborative Planning and Ecosystem Management

Landscape planning and GIS-based data management

Landscape Planning in Germany is based on the recently amended nature protection law. Municipalities and districts are required to draw up plans that represent the status and the future development of nature and landscape. The quality of the plans mostly depends on the quality of the gathered data and the quality of ecological evaluation methods applied. Geomatics could support the planning pro...

Towards Dynamic Land-Use Planning Using Geospatial Technology: Conceptual Design of a Collaborative Web-based GIS

This article presents the conceptual design of a collaborative web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) for land use planning in which all parties including land use planners, applicants/developers, and community stakeholders can participate. The approach employs three-tier architecture built in a Java client-server environment, and consists of the ESRI ArcGIS 9.2® Server Advanced Edition ...

OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF LANDSCAPE INTO LAND MANAGEMENT UNITS (LMUs)

A cost effective, reproducible and reliable system of classification of landscapes into homogeneous units characterizing land based on its physical, biological and cultural characteristics -denoted as Land Management Units (LMUs) is of significant importance for management and planning purposes. Especially for developing countries, LMU systems are very critical as they aid in decision making pr...

Achieving integrative, collaborative ecosystem management.

Although numerous principles have been identified as being important for successfully integrating social and ecological factors in collaborative management, few authors have illustrated how these principles are used and why they are effective. On the basis of a review of the ecosystem management and collaboration literature, we identified eight factors important for integrative, collaborative e...