Integration of spatial suitability analysis for land use planning in coastal areas; case of Kuala Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia

The geo-environmental zoning represents an important strategy in the territorial management. However, it requires a logical and structured procedure. Therefore, an approach using physiographic compartmentalization is proposed and applied as case study in a region covered by the topographic maps of São José dos Campos and Jacareí, Brazil. This region has great geological and geomorphological peculiarities, beyond being a place with large human interventions because of its quickly economic growth. The methodology is based on photointerpretation techniques and remote sensing in GIS environment. As a result, seven geo-environmental zones were obtained from a weighted integration by multicriteria analysis of physiographic units with land-use classes. In conclusion, taking into account potentialities and limitations, the proposed approach can be considered able to support sustainable decision-making, being applicable in other regions.

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“…According to Rampanelli et al (2011), these materials have been actively extracted from the Paraíba do Sul Valley over the last 50 years.…”

Section: Land-use Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geo-environmental zoning using physiographic compartmentalization: a proposal for supporting sustainable decision-making

Corrêa

Reis

Giordano

et al. 2017

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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“…This data came from the RG. Developing a GIS database to be used in a multicriteria evaluation requires all of these attributes, tables, and shapefiles, which can be converted to spatial layers readable in the GIS desktop platform [32]. Therefore, the data associated with these 32 evaluation criteria were imported to a GIS database characterized by two geometries: point and polygon.…”

Section: Data Collection and Collationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analytical hierarchical process (AHP) methodology has been used together with geographic information systems (GIS) tools in several research studies that have, in common, the territory as the physical framework: land use and general suitability analysis [21][22][23][24], natural resources management [25,26] suitable location of engineering projects [27], and urban and regional planning [28][29][30][31][32][33]. Although this methodological approach is considered as a new and powerful research tool, the difficulty and complexity of the methodology can produce inaccurate results if it does not consider the specificity of the tourism sector.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using a VGI and GIS-Based Multicriteria Approach for Assessing the Potential of Rural Tourism in Extremadura (Spain)

et al. 2016

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Extremadura (Spain), being one of the less-developed EU regions, is also eligible for European funds, including those related with the development of tourism activities in rural areas. To assess the spatial distribution of rural tourism potential (RTP), a methodological approach was followed by combining the synergetic use of geographic information systems (GIS) and the analytical hierarchical process (AHP). For the evaluation model, six factors were examined and hierarchized by a panel of eighteen experts: tourism accommodation offer, activities in natural areas, gastronomic offer, cultural activities, bath offer in natural environments, and activities in active tourism. These factors were then decomposed into thirty-two evaluation criteria and the relative importance of their weights was estimated using pairwise judgments. Using publicly available data and volunteered geographic information (VGI) platforms, the related spatial and non-spatial data were collected, collated, and standardized, employing appropriate tools developed with open-source GIS software. The results, represented by a series of intensity maps, indicate the RTP scores, highlight the strengths and weaknesses in each county, and could serve as a planning tool for public and/or private investments.

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“…[14]). These characteristics are configured by their unique climate, hydrology and geomorphology [15], especially in more natural areas, making these spaces very valuable from the ecologicalenvironmental point of view and particularly attractive for human settlement [16].…”

Section: Coastal Zonesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Territorial Planning for Coastal Zones in Chile: The Need for Geographical-Environmental and Natural Risk Indicators for Spatial Decision Support Systems

Peña‒Cortés¹,

Rozas-Vásquez²,

Rebolledo³

et al. 2013

IJG

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Coastal zones are very dynamic and fragile environments, constituting a landscape ever more heterogeneous, fragmented and with increasing levels of complexity due to the changing relationship between man and nature. Integrated coastal zone management therefore requires detailed knowledge of the system and its components, based-to a large extent-on technical and scientific information. However, the information generated must be in line with the political requirements necessary for decision-making and planning. Thus the use of indicators to give a simplified view of the many components of the territory, and at the same time to provide important information about patterns or trends, becomes a tool of the utmost importance. These indicators can be understood as measurable characteristics of the environment, which facilitate comprehension of the processes occurring at different scales and serve as a reference to inform the population and support decision-making. The aim of the present note is to demonstrate briefly the need to develop geographical-environmental and natural risk indicators to facilitate comprehension of the dynamic of spatial and temporal landscape patterns, particularly in coastal environments. This approach offers an historical summary of the natural, socio-economic and political processes which currently make up the territory, and which without doubt will continue to influence it in the future. At the same time, it is proposed that information should be integrated on the basis of this framework with a view to generating spatial decision support systems in a context of planning and integrated management of the coastal zones of Chile.

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Integration of spatial suitability analysis for land use planning in coastal areas; case of Kuala Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia

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Geo-environmental zoning using physiographic compartmentalization: a proposal for supporting sustainable decision-making

Geo-environmental zoning using physiographic compartmentalization: a proposal for supporting sustainable decision-making

Using a VGI and GIS-Based Multicriteria Approach for Assessing the Potential of Rural Tourism in Extremadura (Spain)

Territorial Planning for Coastal Zones in Chile: The Need for Geographical-Environmental and Natural Risk Indicators for Spatial Decision Support Systems

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