Land use planning

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends (a) establishing land-resource mapping and planning units at national, district and village levels to act as focal points and links between institutions and disciplines, and between governments and people; (b) developing national land-resource management plans to guide land-resource development and utilization.

1. Spatial planning
2. Planning development of natural resources
3. Managing land use
4. Managing land
5. Developing resources
6. Coordinating land development

1. Initiating common land use
2. Employing unused land
3. Developing land-use models
4. Determining public land design
5. Creating community land trust
6. Assessing current land situation
7. Applying land customs

1. Utilizing available land resources
2. Releasing additional usable land
3. Improving land
4. Implementing land reform
5. Correcting defective land use planning

1. Undertaking research on land use
2. Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management
3. Mapping land systems
4. Improving education on land management
5. Exchanging information on participatory planning of land resources
6. Developing marginal agricultural lands
7. Building capacity for land management

1. Conserving land resources

1. Developing land
2. Creating a conservation economy

1. Undeveloped recreation space
2. Excessive use of land for agriculture
3. Excessive use of land by automobiles
4. Excessive military usage of land
5. Excessive land usage by transport systems
6. Defective land use planning
7. Cumbersome land system