Hongbin Zhang , Guixia Yang , Qing Huang , Gang Li , Baorui Chen 1,2,3 , Xiaoping Xin 1,2,3,* Hulunber Grassland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, Beijing 100081, China; Key Laboratory of Resource Remote Sensing and Digital Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Bei...

The Lower Hunter Regional Strategy prepared by the Hunter Department of Planning identifies how development in the region will be managed on a sustainable basis over the next 25 years. In order to inform decision-makers about the potential social and health impacts arising from the proposed population increase, the Hunter Regional Coordination Management Group, in collaboration with the NSW Pre...

There is an increasing awareness among regional natural resource managers of the value of data collected by community groups. This includes monitoring of surface rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, estuaries, coastal waters and groundwater. Water quality and condition data collected by community groups supplements information collected by state, regional and local resource management ...

configuration of urban land use arrangement system, how to divide and how to use urban lands are advantages of environmental, economic, social, politic and rightly forces. with extension of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning, this concept is more widely hold a special place in the form of projects such as: land preparation, framework planning, general and comprehensive,...

Regionalization of agricultural research across countries has received considerable attention in recent years, with the establishment of regional and sub-regional organizations in most regions. Recently, the CGIAR System has called for a regional approach to research involving bottom-up priority-setting and implementation, and integrating this with global priority-setting. This paper explores t...

OptWastewater, an easy-to-use computer program developed for regional wastewater system planning, is presented in this article. The regional planning of wastewater systems requires both the drainage of the wastewater generated by the population centers of a region and the meeting of the quality standards defined for the river. OptWastewater is designed to be a decision-aid tool. It incorporates...