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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]. 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   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 12:58:17 EST Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 08:06:25 EST Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 08:11:17 EST Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 10:45:16 EST Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 10:53:37 EST Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 10:56:39 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 49 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 12:58:17 EST

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