An understanding of the complex problems of land use competition requires an appreciation of natural processes, cultural values, economic imperatives and political agendas. This integrated understanding is an important component of the study program for tertiary students about to complete their professional qualification in landscape architecture at the Queensland University of Technology. This...

Whether land management planning provides for sufficient habitat to sustain viable populations of indigenous wildlife is one of the greatest challenges confronting resource managers. Analyses of the effects of land management on natural resources often rely on qualitative assessments that focus on single species to reflect the risk of wildlife extinction across a planning area. We propose a con...

Galf n Cranz has a Masters and PhD in sociolog)' from University" of Chicago, where she specialized in the "social use of space." Since then she has taught architecture from a social and cultural point of view at Princeton University and the University' of California at Berkeley. The author of The Politics ofPniii Design (1982), she hecame interested in the problems of sustainable development i...

For analyzing basic marine and coastal characteristics we selected the potential sites where shrimp culture could be developed in a large coastal zone, Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Based on our analysis, 6 sites were preselected and field stages of work were then developed to assess the precise suitability of each site in order to develop the proposed aquaculture activities. In...

The approach presented suggests a new way of supporting planning processes. Planners from various disciplines can test and discuss planning scenarios at a workbench, where a virtual landscape is visualized in a 3D real-time environment. With the defined paradigm of ‘landscape editing’, planners can model and manipulate virtual landscapes intuitively. They can transform, add, move and delete by ...

How to build an image interpretation expert system and other relevant expert systems within a knowledge-based pictorial information system is an ad hoc theme in geographical information system(GIS) field. It plays an important role in building a synthetic information system and in enhancing the GIS system performance. In this article, we present a forestry regional resource planning sub-system,...

In the context of urban land-use growth and consequent impacts on environment, green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The concept synthesises human–environmental interactions through a series combined components biodiversity abiotic elements, linking ecological processes functions. infrastructure (GI) in emphasises quality quantity peri-urban natural areas. dense contexts, ap...