Land Use Planning Topics
Land Tools Compendium: Sustainability
References that have links are freely available on the internet.
Alberta Environment and Parks (2014). Efficient Use of Land: Implementation Tools Compendium. Government of Alberta.
Created in 2014 by the Government of Alberta, this compendium outlines tools and practices to implement strategies for the efficient use of land. The strategies are targeted to planners, landowners and developers, public land managers, and public service providers – anyone involved in land use decision making. Some of the strategies have been tested and applied within Alberta and other strategies are adapted from planning practices around the world.
Chatzinikolaou, P., & Manos, B. (2012). Review of existing methodologies and tools for measuring sustainability in rural areas.
The sustainability discourse clearly gives priority to the so-called 'three-pillar model, according to which sustainable development should equally try to reach ecological, economic, and social goals. An increasing variety of methods is being proposed to address the question of the measurement of sustainable development. This paper covers an overview of various methodologies that seek to deliver sustainable areas and tools which are practically implemented to measure sustainable development. More specifically, 16 studies that have attempted to measure sustainability have been reviewed and classified, according to their objectives and tools. The main finding of this review is that, there have been very few attemptsto define social and economic sustainability as independent dimensions of sustainable development. There is limited literature that focuses on economic and social sustainability to the extent that a comprehensive study of this concept is still missing.
De Groot, R. (2006). Function-analysis and valuation as a tool to assess land use conflicts in planning for sustainable, multi-functional landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 75(3), 175-186.
Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2014). Sustainable urban development: Use of the environmental assessment methods. Sustainable Cities and Society, 10, 39-48.
