Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Message from Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
- Foreword by Charles Odidi Okidi and Nicholas Adams Robinson
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Challenges of Environmental Law – Environmental Issues and Their Implications to Jurisprudence
- ONE INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND LEGAL RESPONSES TO SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT
- TWO NATIONAL APPROACHES TO LAND USE PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- 6 Community Rights to Genetic Resources and Their Knowledge: African and Ethiopian Perspectives
- 7 Easements and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya
- 8 Land Tenure, Land Use, and Sustainability in Kenya: Toward Innovative Use of Property Rights in Wildlife Management
- 9 The Development of Environmental Law and Its Impact on Sustainable Use of Wetlands in Uganda
- 10 EIA and the Four Ps: Some Observations from South Africa
- 11 From Bureaucracy-Controlled to Stakeholder-Driven Urban Planning and Management: Experiences and Challenges of Environmental Planning and Management in Tanzania
- 12 Strategies for Integrated Environmental Governance in South Africa: Toward a More Sustainable Environmental Governance and Land Use Regime
- 13 Environmental Law and Sustainable Land Use in Nigeria
- 14 The Role of Administrative Dispute Resolution Institutions and Processes in Sustainable Land Use Management: The Case of the National Environment Tribunal and the Public Complaints Committee of Kenya
- 15 Managing the Environmental Impact of Refugees in Kenya: The Role of National Accountability and Environmental Law
- 16 Environmental Impact Assessment Law and Land Use: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends in the Nigerian and U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
- 17 Managing Land Use and Environmental Conflicts in Cameroon
- 18 Environmental Law Reform to Control Land Degradation in the People's Republic of China: A View of the Legal Framework of the PRC–GEF Partnership Program
- 19 Urbanization and Environmental Challenges in Pakistan
- 20 ASEAN Heritage Parks and Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation
- 21 Land Use Planning, Environmental Management, and the Garden City as an Urban Development Approach in Singapore
- 22 The Law and Preparation of Environmental Management Plans for Sustainable Development in Thailand
- 23 Nepal's Legal Initiatives on Land Use for Sustainable Development
- 24 Environmental Law and Irrigated Land in Australia
- 25 Environmental Impact Assessment: Addressing the Major Weaknesses
- 26 Protection of Natural Spaces in Brazilian Environmental Law
- 27 Land Use Planning in Mexico: As Framed by Social Development and Environmental Policies
- 28 Argentina's Constitution and General Environment Law as the Framework for Comprehensive Land Use Regulation
- 29 Ecological Economics, Sustainable Land Use, and Policy Choices
- 30 The 2004 U.S. Ocean Report and Its Implications for Land Use Reform to Improve Ocean Water Quality
- 31 Historical Overview of the American Land Use System: A Diagnostic Approach to Evaluating Governmental Land Use Control
- Index
29 - Ecological Economics, Sustainable Land Use, and Policy Choices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Message from Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
- Foreword by Charles Odidi Okidi and Nicholas Adams Robinson
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Challenges of Environmental Law – Environmental Issues and Their Implications to Jurisprudence
- ONE INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND LEGAL RESPONSES TO SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT
- TWO NATIONAL APPROACHES TO LAND USE PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- 6 Community Rights to Genetic Resources and Their Knowledge: African and Ethiopian Perspectives
- 7 Easements and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya
- 8 Land Tenure, Land Use, and Sustainability in Kenya: Toward Innovative Use of Property Rights in Wildlife Management
- 9 The Development of Environmental Law and Its Impact on Sustainable Use of Wetlands in Uganda
- 10 EIA and the Four Ps: Some Observations from South Africa
- 11 From Bureaucracy-Controlled to Stakeholder-Driven Urban Planning and Management: Experiences and Challenges of Environmental Planning and Management in Tanzania
- 12 Strategies for Integrated Environmental Governance in South Africa: Toward a More Sustainable Environmental Governance and Land Use Regime
- 13 Environmental Law and Sustainable Land Use in Nigeria
- 14 The Role of Administrative Dispute Resolution Institutions and Processes in Sustainable Land Use Management: The Case of the National Environment Tribunal and the Public Complaints Committee of Kenya
- 15 Managing the Environmental Impact of Refugees in Kenya: The Role of National Accountability and Environmental Law
- 16 Environmental Impact Assessment Law and Land Use: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends in the Nigerian and U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
- 17 Managing Land Use and Environmental Conflicts in Cameroon
- 18 Environmental Law Reform to Control Land Degradation in the People's Republic of China: A View of the Legal Framework of the PRC–GEF Partnership Program
- 19 Urbanization and Environmental Challenges in Pakistan
- 20 ASEAN Heritage Parks and Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation
- 21 Land Use Planning, Environmental Management, and the Garden City as an Urban Development Approach in Singapore
- 22 The Law and Preparation of Environmental Management Plans for Sustainable Development in Thailand
- 23 Nepal's Legal Initiatives on Land Use for Sustainable Development
- 24 Environmental Law and Irrigated Land in Australia
- 25 Environmental Impact Assessment: Addressing the Major Weaknesses
- 26 Protection of Natural Spaces in Brazilian Environmental Law
- 27 Land Use Planning in Mexico: As Framed by Social Development and Environmental Policies
- 28 Argentina's Constitution and General Environment Law as the Framework for Comprehensive Land Use Regulation
- 29 Ecological Economics, Sustainable Land Use, and Policy Choices
- 30 The 2004 U.S. Ocean Report and Its Implications for Land Use Reform to Improve Ocean Water Quality
- 31 Historical Overview of the American Land Use System: A Diagnostic Approach to Evaluating Governmental Land Use Control
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The notions of sustainable land management and sustainable development are inherently attractive as ways of reconciling human needs with the limits of the biosphere. Policymakers, however, struggle enormously to translate these concepts into reality. Part of the struggle results from the fact that managing for sustainability requires integrating a variety of values – from economic to ecological to cultural – that in some cases cannot be integrated without difficult trade-offs. Since economic values have traditionally dominated land use and development decisions, policymakers often feel able only to “add on” or “layer on” other values on top of economic considerations. This is why ecological, cultural, and social values are so often additional considerations tacked on at the margins of an economic land use or development plan. Sustainable land management and sustainable development require turning this model on its head. Land use decisions should begin by recognizing the limitations of the biosphere and then aim to maximize social, cultural, and economic uses on the basis of the best potential output of land and resources. While there will still inevitably be difficult trade-offs to make with this approach, it allows policymakers to make overt decisions about how to distribute the limited resources of the biosphere among members of society, aiming to minimize the trade-offs as much as possible.
In areas where there is an opportunity for new land use planning, policymakers can try to incorporate this “bottom-up” approach to sustainable land management.
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- Land Use Law for Sustainable Development , pp. 526 - 554Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006