TY - JOUR

T1 - Planning sustainable land use in rural areas at different spatial levels using GIS and modelling tools

AU - Herrmann, S.

AU - Osinski, E.

N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank their colleagues involved in the three projects, for the support of data and discussion and to the two anonymous revisers for their comments and advice. We are very grateful to the assistance of Nicola White in a preliminary check of the English. The projects were supported by the EU and the Ministry of Agriculture, Baden-Wuerttemberg (state level), by the Volkswagen-Stiftung (regional level) and the National Ministry of Research in Germany (local level). Copyright: Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.

PY - 1999/12/15

Y1 - 1999/12/15

N2 - Problem-oriented planning in rural areas requires a holistic approach in which the different spatial levels are combined within a framework. The highest level of this framework (e.g. a federal state) has to provide general ideas for the development of landscapes. Modified methods have to be used at the regional and local levels, in order to visualise the consequences of different planning measures. Geographical information systems and modelling approaches are very efficient for doing this. The participation of the people concerned, particularly at the local level, has to be guaranteed and integrated within the planning process. Planning in this sense needs not only a top-down but also a bottom-up approach. This paper presents the concepts involved and gives some results of such planning, using the example of Baden-Wuerttemberg in south Germany and examining the regional level (exemplified by an intensively farmed area) and local level (a community) within this federal state.

AB - Problem-oriented planning in rural areas requires a holistic approach in which the different spatial levels are combined within a framework. The highest level of this framework (e.g. a federal state) has to provide general ideas for the development of landscapes. Modified methods have to be used at the regional and local levels, in order to visualise the consequences of different planning measures. Geographical information systems and modelling approaches are very efficient for doing this. The participation of the people concerned, particularly at the local level, has to be guaranteed and integrated within the planning process. Planning in this sense needs not only a top-down but also a bottom-up approach. This paper presents the concepts involved and gives some results of such planning, using the example of Baden-Wuerttemberg in south Germany and examining the regional level (exemplified by an intensively farmed area) and local level (a community) within this federal state.

KW - Geo-Information System

KW - Modelling

KW - Planning framework

KW - Rural area

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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00050-X

DO - 10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00050-X

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0033573282

VL - 46

SP - 93

EP - 101

JO - Landscape and urban planning

JF - Landscape and urban planning

SN - 0169-2046

IS - 1-3

ER -