Urban sprawl influences extends on large perimeters in which natural and agricultural spaces have a social value. Private market, in particular land market, does not allow their safeguarding. A public land use regulation must be implemented. It cannot be a zoning: it concerns the whole of ordinary spaces. We show that it is possible to use the spatial economy and landscape ecology tools, to draw a prospective for ecologizing the town planning

As a quickly growing regional capital located in the Mediterranean littoral vineyard area, the city-region of Montpellier has recently constituted itself as a new local authority gathering 31 municipalities (Communauté d’Agglomération). Working out the territorial coherence scheme (Scot) was a priority step to structure the development project of this new territory, combining urban and rural dimensions.

Urban sprawl influences extends on large perimeters in which natural and agricultural spaces have a social value. Private market, in particular land market, does not allow their safeguarding. A public land use regulation must be implemented. It cannot be a zoning: it concerns the whole of ordinary spaces. We show that it is possible to use the spatial economy and landscape ecology tools, to draw a prospective for ecologizing the town planning

As a quickly growing regional capital located in the Mediterranean littoral vineyard area, the city-region of Montpellier has recently constituted itself as a new local authority gathering 31 municipalities (Communauté d’Agglomération). Working out the territorial coherence scheme (Scot) was a priority step to structure the development project of this new territory, combining urban and rural dimensions.

Het landelijk gebied beslaat circa 70% van het grondoppervlak van Nederland. Om de biodiversiteit en de landschappelijke waarden te beschermen, heeft het Rijk de Ecologische Hoofdstructuur en Nationale Landschappen aangewezen. Buiten deze rijksprioritaire gebieden komen echter ook belangrijke natuur- en landschapswaarden voor. Dit werkdocument beschrijft de natuur en landschapswaarden in het agrarisch gebied. Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van de Natuurbalans 2009. Op verzoek van het ministerie van LNV is het thema ‘Biodiversiteit en het landelijk gebied’ uitgewerkt.

De tuinders van VAT-Ede (Vereniging Amateurtuinders) wilden een verkenning uitvoeren naar de mogelijkheden om het bestaande volkstuincomplex De Koekelt om te vormen tot een multifunctioneel tuinenpark. Het volkstuinencomplex De Koekelt biedt door haar ligging en grootte ongekende mogelijkheden om een multifunctioneel tuinenpark te realiseren.

Made under section 31 of the Town Planners (Registration) Act

Guatemala was among the world’s leaders in deforestation during the 1990s at a rate of 2% per annum. Much of Guatemala’s recent forest loss has occurred in the emerging agricultural frontiers of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the heart of the largest contiguous tropical forest in Central America—La Selva Maya.

Customary land tenure is criticized as dynamic with the institutional framework unable to provide enough tenure security at all times. It is also criticized as ineffective to cope with the trends in land tenure delivery at peri-urban areas where individualization of land and demand for land is high. The aim of this paper is to investigate how customary land tenure systems of Ghana meet the dynamic need of the modern life in peri-urban areas.