Author: David W. Countryman
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780608059396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →U.S. land and water resources are analyzed as a basis for projecting national agricultural cropland and other land needs to the year 2000. Impact of changes in technology and resource development as well as environmental and institutional factors affecting the availability of these natural resources are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the continuing responsibility of federal, State, and local governments to assess the adequacy of our natural resources to meet future needs and to improve the quality of the environment.
Author: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonas Nnkya
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2007-10-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9987081096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lack of transparency and accountability in the planning practice allow for misuse and abuse of the planning system to serve the interests of the more powerful and influential groups, including those entrusted with the powers of planning. The outcomes of a non-inclusive, non-transparent and insensitive planning include: insecurity of land tenure rights and subsequently investments in land; poverty; informal land subdivision and building; unplanned spatial growth and endless conflicts in land development. These are detrimental to the residents and erode their trust and confidence in the government. It takes an organized, informed, confident and courageous group of residents or community to reject the non-inclusive form of planning and cause adoption of inclusive and collaborative planning that allows them space in the planning process. The achievement of such an organized group ? a turn towards democratic planning practice ? leads to a conclusion that informed, organized, confident and courageous civil society is a pillar of democracy. This book therefore argues that ineffective planning results, among other things, from defective land policy and legislation, and planning inability to recognize and make use of opportunities for shaping the built environment.