Land use transformations, territory naturalness and ecological planning

Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning

Land Use Planning

Land , terrain , territory

This paper outlines a way toward conceptual and historical clarity around the question of territory. The aim is not to define territory, in the sense of a single meaning; but rather to indicate the issues at stake in grasping how it has been understood in different historical and geographical contexts. It does so first by critically interrogating work on territoriality, suggesting that neither ...

Ecological Principles for Managing Land Use

Land Use Planning and Productive Capacity Assessment

The determination of the "productive capacity" of the land is the main component of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Agroecological Zones (AEZ) approach, and it is also an element in the sequence of land evaluation and land use planning as advocated by FAO for use in developing countries. The nature of the subject lends itself to little or no privatization, whi...