A Multi-Objective Spatial Optimization Method for Land Use Allocation in High Flood Risk Areas

Abstract

As the result of the rapid development, mountain areas have suffered from the unbalanced development and land use planning. Recently, under the global climate change, the stability of mountain land is more difficult to control. Therefore, it is an important issue to find the most suitable land use pattern for mountains in order to respond to the impact of global climate change.This paper applies multi-objective programming model for the evaluation of sustainable management strategies of optimal land development in mountains. The environmental goals focus on the water quality, the economic goals focus on the total output value, and the disaster goals focus on soil erosion. A case study of the planning for land use programs in the Tai Po Township in Taiwan was demonstrated

Sustainable and Resilient Land Use Planning: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach

“…It requires land use planners to obtain the optimal spatial allocation of different types of land use units. The process of land use allocation is essentially a combinatorial optimization problem with a large number of potential combinations within the solution space [4].…”