Land Preservation: An Essential Ingredient in Smart Growth

Abstract

The preservation of land for working rural landscapes, wildlife habitat, urban parks, recreational trails, and protecting water supplies and floodplains is emerging as an integral component of smart growth programs. Both the general public and nonprofit organizations have been willing to spend billions of dollars on land preservation because of a perception that traditional land use planning and regulation are not successfully accommodating growth or protecting valuable natural resources. The literature on smart growth has largely overlooked the potential of land preservation to curb sprawl and to foster livable communities. The literature on land preservation has focused on the mechanics of conservation easements and land purchases rather than on how land preservation can fit in the comprehensive planning process to achieve community smart growth goals. More research needs to be done on the strategic use of land preservation in shaping and directing growth as part of a comprehensive planning effort. focused on the mechanics of conservation easements and land purchases rather than on how land preservation can fit in the comprehensive planning process to achieve community smart growth goals. More research needs to be done on the strategic use of land preservation in shaping and directing growth as part of a comprehensive planning effort.4

Semi-Urban Areas in Landscape Research: A Review

“…Although it is based on Living Reviews in Landscape Research http://www.livingreviews.org/lrlr-2008-3 urbanistic principles and so primarily focused on the human-dominated environment, it incorporates elements from various other planning frameworks for sustainable (urban) development such as anti-sprawl measures, greenbelts, rural development near urban fringes and multifunctional land use (Burchell et al, 2000;Daniels and Lapping, 2005;Danielsen et al, 1999;Duany and Talen, 2002;Irwin and Bockstael, 2004;Walmsley, 2006). …”

“…Good examples of decision support strategies as a tool for sustainable urban planning of semiurban areas include sprawl measures, master plans, neighborhood development tools, hierarchical processes for evaluation, growth management, and the implementation of green structures as an instrument and are abundant in the literature (Banai, 2005;Cadieux, 2008;Daniels and Lapping, 2005;Hümmeler, 1998;Jensen et al, 2000;Yli-Viikari et al, 2007). …”

Extraction of Natural Resources and Community Livelihoods Systems Change Region of the Cycloop Nature Reserve in Jayapura Papua

“…Kondisi ini didukung oleh hasil penelitian yang menyatakan bahwa perpindahan penduduk ke arah sumberdaya mengakibatkan kebijakan mengenai tata ruang dikesampingkan guna memenuhi kebutuhan ekonomi dan mengurangi kemiskinan bagi masyarakat (Dale et al, 2000;Millerand Hobbs, 2002;Daniels and Lapping, 2005;Sandstrom et al, 2006;Termorshuizen et al, 2007;Zonneveld, 2007;CEC, 2011). Dampak yang serius dapat dilihat berdasarkan beberapa perubahan baik dari sisi penurunan sumberdaya alam serta penurunan kualitas lingkungan.…”

Implementing ecological networks through the Red for Green approach in a densely populated country: Does it work?

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