Preserving the environment and traditional communities : a land use change modeling approach

Preserving the environment and traditional communities : a land use change modeling approach

Leao, Simone and Kuhn, Caroline 2006, Preserving the environment and traditional communities : a land use change modeling approach, in Proceedings of SAGEO : International Conference on Geomatics and Spatial Analysis, [SAGEO], [Strasbourg, France].

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Title	Preserving the environment and traditional communities : a land use change modeling approach
Author(s)	Leao, Simone Kuhn, Caroline
Conference name	International Conference on Geomatics and Spatial Analysis (2006 : Strasbourg, France)
Conference location	Strasbourg, France
Conference dates	11-13 Sept. 2006
Title of proceedings	Proceedings of SAGEO : International Conference on Geomatics and Spatial Analysis
Editor(s)	[Unknown]
Publication date	2006
Publisher	[SAGEO]
Place of publication	[Strasbourg, France]
Keyword(s)	conservation policy environmental planning geographical information systems land use dynamics land use modelling
Summary	Human populations can cause serious damage to the natural environment. This, however, depends on the type of society and its size. Many traditional communities have a balanced relation with the environment, using practices for managing the soil, water and natural resources in order to satisfy their needs that are compatible to the general goals of environmental preservation. The most usual approach to environmental conservation in the world sees human beings as intruders, potentially destroyers of the nature and, as a consequence, generally requires local population to be expelled from the protected regions. This situation has generated social conflicts because many protected areas, particularly in developing countries, are inhabited by indigenous or other traditional communities. The disagreement about expelling or maintaining traditional communities in environmental conservation areas is strengthened by the lack of diagnostics on which changes are produced or suffered by communities in the region where they live. This paper presents a methodology developed to analyse land use dynamics in region with environmental conservation and traditional communities. We seek a better understanding of the way traditional communities use their space, the spatial pattern of land uses, which factors drive land use change, which impacts can be seen in those regions and identify the effects of conservation policies on land use dynamics. The application of the method to the National Park of Superagui, Brazil, has successfully performed characterisation, analysis and simulation of land use dynamics in a region of environmental importance. Testing different scenarios has suggested that the adoption of a less restrictive policy for environmental conservation would have resulted in less social conflict with the same environmental efficiency than the established current policy.
Language	eng
Field of Research	129999 Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective	970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design
HERDC Research category	E2.1 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30041626

Document type:	Conference Paper
Collection:	School of Architecture and Built Environment

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