Rural, forested areas throughout the United States are experiencing strong housing growth with potentially detrimental impacts on the environment. In this paper, we quantify housing growth in Northern Wisconsin over the last sixty years to determine if growth rates were higher near public lands, which may represent an important recreational amenity. We used data from the U.S. Census to produce ...

cities need good, participatory and effective policies and plans for development. urban development plans such as comprehensive plan are the most important tool for implementation of policies and plans. the effective implementation of city development plan requires high level documents such as spatial planning; good macro development plans policies, efficient urban management and public partici...

Over the last 20 years, more than 100,000 land consolidation projects have been carried out around China. Some of them are successful, some of them are failed. For lack of public participation, low reconstruction quality and unreasonable large-scale demolishing of old village, land consolidation are criticized sometimes by the public and media in China. Recently, the situation is changing step ...

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Обгрунтовано, що система багатофункціонального управління земельними ресурсами та землекористуванням включає підсистему функціонального загальнодержавного землекористуванням. Функціональне загальнодержавне державою як їх власником, уособленому в органі виконавчої влади Держгеокадастрі України, базується на принципі "від загального до часткового", а багатофункціональне принципах часткового" част...

In the western United States, livestock grazing often co-exists with recreation, cultural resource management and biodiversity protection on federal and state protected rangelands as well as on many local government open space areas. While the value of livestock grazing for managing rangeland vegetation to reduce fire fuel loads and improve wildlife habitat is increasingly recognized by resourc...