المؤلفون: Padmaraju, Karthik, Soumya, Cheela, Karunakara, Kavitha

المصدر: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2024, Vol. 2971 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p

مصطلحات موضوعية: FALLOWING, LAND use, LAND use planning, LAND cover, TREE crops, WASTE lands, RANGELANDS

مصطلحات جغرافية: INDIA, MYSURU (India), KARNATAKA (India)

مستخلص: Mysuru is Karnataka's cultural capital. and has been adjudged the cleanest city in India by Swachh Sarvekshan, the Government of India. Particularly helpful in evaluating quickly expanding urban centers, changes in land use and land cover are an integral part of climate change brought on by human activity. Future study techniques on land use planning and policies can be developed with the aid of statistics on land use dynamics. Because of this, a study was conducted to compare the land use dynamics of several Mysuru neighborhoods. The information used in the study was gathered secondarily, from a variety of reliable published sources. Time series data on Mysuru district taluk-level land use was collected for the period 1970-1971-2016-2017. Using different statistical methods including percentage change, compound growth rates, and instability, an attempt was made to assess temporal changes in the land use pattern in the Mysore district. It was noted that increases were seen in a number of land use categories, including the area covered by forest, the area used for non-agricultural purposes, the area that is now fallow, the net area seeded, and the total area farmed. However, throughout Period II, there was a downward tendency in land use categories such cultivable waste, permanent pastures and other grazing fields, and land under various tree crops and groves. It is significant to note that while the state-level increase in area under net sown was just 2.37 percent, the rise in net area seeded in the Mysuru district was 7.39 percent. By examining growth rates, it was determined that Mysuru's land use patterns increased by 0.59, 0.22, 1.06, 0.77, 3.40, and 5.77 percent during Period II. Non-agriculturally used land, cultivable waste, permanent pastures and grazing land, tree crops and groves, current fallow, other fallow, net area seeded, area sown more than once, and total cropped area were included. Waste land and dry terrain dropped 0.8% yearly. According to instability indices, Mysuru's fallow land and other than fallow land was more unstable than barren and uncultivable land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Nguyen, Tuan Tran

المصدر: Real Estate Management & Valuation; Jun2024, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p1-12, 12p

مصطلحات موضوعية: LAND cover, PADDY fields, URBAN land use, LAND use planning, LAND use, WASTE lands

مصطلحات جغرافية: HANOI (Vietnam), VIETNAM

مستخلص: Because land is an entity that possesses both biophysical and geophysical features, it can be subdivided into several land covers and put to a variety of diverse uses. In this study, transformation matrices are generated using JAXA map data in order to conduct an analysis of the inter-land variability. In Hanoi, data collection took place over the course of four years (1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020). According to Vietnam's legislation, this timeframe is also equivalent to three phases of land use planning (LUP). According to the findings, the area of land used for urban development is expanding at a quick rate in this metropolitan region (by more than 13%), but the area used for rice production has experienced a significant decline (by approx. 23%). However, the pattern is not consistent from one planning period to the next. The research results are also linked to land use practices in Hanoi in the discussion section. This points to the compatibility with the current state of Vietnam's linear economic growth in recent times, as well as negative issues, such as land waste and forecasts of spatial changes in Hanoi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Hong, Zhizhong, Liang, Tao, Garcia, Ester Higueras, Wang, Lingqing

المصدر: Journal of Urban Planning & Development; Jun2024, Vol. 150 Issue 2, p1-14, 14p

مصطلحات موضوعية: URBAN health, SUBURBS, WASTE lands, CITY dwellers, CITIES & towns, HEALTH service areas, REGIONAL development, ECOTOURISM

مصطلحات جغرافية: TAIYUAN (Shanxi Sheng, China), SHANXI Sheng (China)

مستخلص: In the twenty-first century, with the development of urbanization, large-scale mine wastelands in peri-urban areas have become increasingly closely related to the daily lives of urban and rural residents. Adopting a reuse method that meets the health needs of these residents, restoration, construction of mine wastelands in the suburbs of cities, and the formation of high-quality healthy environments and service supply are in line with the demands of healthy city construction and sustainable development. In addition, they have received increasing attention from all sectors of society. Based on the main criteria for constructing a healthy urban environment, this paper takes the comprehensive remediation and construction project of mine wastelands in the Taiyuan Xishan Ecological and Cultural Tourism Demonstration Area as a case study. It uses on-site surveys and an open-ended web-based questionnaire. It focuses on researching the perceived health needs of urban and rural residents in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, China concerning the main elements that determine health, such as the natural ecological environment, the construction of facilities and activities, and the local economic and industrial development. The results of 748 questionnaires that were completed by participants who effectively participated in the survey show that most participants preferred a comprehensive development model (86.6%) to reuse these areas. In addition, the specific needs of urban and rural residents for health safety, equity and quality, and healthy low-carbon industries should be considered. The differences in demand among groups of citizens due to different ages, living distances, levels of education, and occupations should be comprehensively considered. This paper demonstrates that a full understanding of the health needs of residents has great practical significance when improving the healthy environment and service supply level in mine wasteland restoration and construction and promoting the development of regional healthy city construction. Recently, the healthy environment and sustainable development of areas that host large-scale mine wastelands on the outskirts of cities have received increasing attention from all sectors of society. This paper suggests that during the reuse and construction of these areas, government management, development, and construction companies, planning and design organizations, and other departments that are involved in policy formulation and construction implementation should give full consideration to the perceived health needs of urban and rural residents in the host city, and to groups of residents of different ages, living distances, occupations, and educational levels, to form a high-quality and equitable health environment and services in the area. In addition, active public participation, on-site research, and interviews are essential for relevant departments to improve their understanding of resident health needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Sumarsih, Sri, Hadi, Sofijan, Fatimah, Fitri, Rizka Diah, Illavi, Gilva

المصدر: HAYATI: Journal of Biosciences; May2024, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p425-431, 7p

مصطلحات موضوعية: LIPASES, PETROLEUM waste, WASTE lands, OIL fields, BACTERIAL enzymes, VEGETABLE oils

مستخلص: In this research, lipolyic bacteria have been isolated from palm oil waste land for the production of lipase. Species of potential lipolytic bacteria were identified based on their morphology and sequences of 16 rRNA gene. Enzymes are produced by growing bacteria in a medium with various vegetable oils and nitrogen sources. The enzyme produced by the bacteria measured its lipolytic activity against the substrate para-nitrophenylpalmitate. The lipolytic bacteria was recognized as Lysinibacillus sphaericus L49a based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis. Mineral media with different vegetable oils as carbon sources, and different nitrogen sources were suitable for growth and production of lipase enzymes of L. sphaericus L49a. Culltivation of L. sphaericus L49a in medium containing ammonium sulfate and olive oil produced lipase with the highest lipolytic activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Hopkins, John A. F.

المصدر: Chinese Semiotic Studies; May2024, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p357-377, 21p

مصطلحات موضوعية: WASTE lands, BUDDHISTS, PEASANTS, SPRING, POETRY (Literary form), LANDSCAPE painting, CYPRESS

Reviews & Products: WASTE Land, The (Poem : Eliot)

People: ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

مستخلص: Although published only two years after Eliot's famous modernist poem "The Waste Land" (1922), Miyazawa Kenji's 52-line "Haru to Shura" (1924) is already very nearly as modern. The two poems, examined here using my expanded version of Riffaterre's semiotic theory, have analogous propositional structure. One proposition concerns the faithless majority of mankind; the other involves a heavenly personage of potentially rehabilitating power. In Miyazawa's case, the former is represented by Japanese peasants; the latter is the "Shura" – normally an unruly member of the lowest rank of Buddhist demigods. Miyazawa's modernist message reverses the roles of these two personae: the Shura only wants to be recognized by the peasant he spies below his abode in the clouds. The peasant comes off as the lesser of the two beings because of his obdurate fixation on the soil. Miyazawa enhances the contrast of roles by painting the spring landscape – normally a season of burgeoning nature – in somber colors. This is a spring (haru) in which no birds sing, and the ranks of cypress trees are black. Commentaries by Japanese critics, plus one by one of my students, are examined: none can distance themselves from common sociolectic concepts of the seasons and the peasant population. Miyazawa, a devout Buddhist, is thus expressing a novel view of the people's attitude to religion which they themselves are culpably unaware of. Their attitude is thus very close to that of the various personages in Eliot's poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Bathla, Nitin

المصدر: Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space; Apr2024, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p814-833, 20p

مصطلحات موضوعية: WASTE lands, ENVIRONMENTALISM, GOVERNMENTALITY, LAND settlement, PROPERTY rights, RURAL poor, AGRICULTURAL landscape management, NATURE conservation

مصطلحات جغرافية: DELHI (India)

مستخلص: Wasteland governmentality has long shaped colonial and postcolonial landscape governance across the planet. While historically wasteland classification was deployed for agrarian land settlement and silviculture, with extended urbanisation it is increasingly used to consolidate landscapes of extended urban nature. These landscapes are in turn subjected to state-led land enclosures for urban and infrastructure development and for greenwashing. This paper investigates the political construction of one such landscape of extended urban nature, the Aravalli region, a geological feature which runs parallel to the extended corridor urbanisation in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). Particularly, I examine how in the name of regulating mining, urban development, and pollution in the Delhi NCR, the revenue wastes including sacred groves, hills, and other village commons falling in the Aravallis have been consolidated as a state space. I examine how the patchwork of communities assembled in the extended urban fabric of the region deploys the sacred to counter land enclosure and the emptying out of meaning. I discuss three such modalities of the sacred in the region, namely, its use by agrarian villages to assert land rights over sacred forests, the misuse of the sacred by temple committees to produce faux nature, and its use by emergent urban environmental movements in the region to frame an anti-wasteland politics. Focusing my attention on the state, I discuss the need for a nuanced understanding of emergent urban environmentalism in the region as restorative commoning beyond the binary framings of bourgeois versus the poor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Dedyukhin, Sergey V., Egorov, Leonid V., Ruchin, Alexander B.

المصدر: Journal of Wildlife & Biodiversity (JWB); 2024, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p416-433, 18p

مصطلحات موضوعية: HABITATS, CHRYSOMELIDAE, HYLOBIUS abietis, WASTE lands, BEETLES

مستخلص: The article presents an analysis of the results of using a large number of pitfall trap lines to record the species composition of the two largest groups of phytophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae and Curculionoidea) on the example of the territory of one region of the European part of Russia (the Republic of Mordovia). A series of collections were conducted between April and October 2022-2023, encompassing a diverse array of habitats (forest, steppe, near-water, wasteland) across various parts of the region. A total of 126 species from four families (approximately 18% of the fauna of the Republic of Mordovia) were recorded. These included 84 species of Curculionidae (22.9% of species), 42 species of Chrysomelidae (22.9%), 3 species of Brentidae, and 1 species of Anthribidae. Fourteen species are presented for the first time in the regional fauna. The collections are dominated by species whose adults are actively moving on soil or litter, particularly those belonging to the Alticini (Chrysomelidae) (33 species; 38.4% of the fauna composition) and the subfamily Entiminae (Curculionidae) (32 species; 45.1%). The collections represent a wide range of landscape-biotopic groups (meadow, ruderal, forest, nearwater, and steppe species). Extensive materials obtained in pine forests and their pyrogenic successions in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve were also analyzed. The maximum species richness (30 species) was observed on fresh pyrogenic wastelands (1-2 years after fires). This is due to the association of many species of leafhoppers and weevils with habitats with sparse ruderal vegetation and coenophobic plants. A minimum of 10 species was observed on plots of old burned areas (13 years) where the primary vegetation is degraded and a full-fledged pine forest complex has not yet formed. The maximum abundance of two ecologically plastic species (Strophosoma capitatum and Hylobius abietis) associated with young undergrowth of pine and deciduous trees was recorded in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: El Bagoury, Mahmoud

المصدر: Journal of Holy Land & Palestine Studies; Apr2024, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p109-126, 18p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ISRAEL-Gaza conflict, 2006-, WASTE lands, COSMOPOLITANISM, FORCED migration, UTOPIAS, NEGOTIATION, PROMISES

مصطلحات جغرافية: GAZA Strip, ISRAEL

People: DARWISH, Mahmud, 1942-2008

مستخلص: This article investigates how Mahmoud Darwish introduces a postcolonial utopian rhetoric whereby Israelis and Palestinians would create a better milieu than what presently exists by adopting new human and universal commonalities and by eliminating what Fredric Jameson labels 'the root of all evil'. Israel's current colonial project against Gaza as forced displacement can be deconstructed through such rhetoric. Darwish's postcolonial utopia aligns with Bill Ashcroft's appeal to the creation of a better world free from hate, categorisation and the desire for annihilation. Strangely, Gaza's anti-colonial project for national independence has been unjustly categorized and distorted by Zionist Israel that espouses the 'categorise and colonise' slogan for imperial expansionism. Darwish's discourse introduces liberal-humanist cosmopolitan aesthetics to foreground a categorisation-free dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians through dissemination of the ethics of negotiation rather than negation. Darwish's rhetoric of postcolonial utopia comprises as such: the human promise; the entanglement of self and other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Deng, Jiangdi, Li, Zuran, Li, Bo, Xu, Cui, Wang, Lei, Li, Yuan

المصدر: Toxics; Apr2024, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p279, 13p

مصطلحات موضوعية: RIPARIAN areas, WASTE lands, RAINFALL, RUNOFF, TRACE elements, PLASTIC pipe, ARSENIC, ADAPTIVE natural resource management

مستخلص: The diffusion of trace elements in mining wastelands has attracted widespread attention in recent years. Vegetation restoration is an effective measure for controlling the surface migration of trace elements. However, there is no field evidence of the effective riparian zone width in mining wastelands. Three widths (5 m, 7.5 m, and 10 m) of Rhododendron simsii/Lolium perenne L. riparian zones were constructed in lead–zinc mining wastelands to investigate the loss of soil, cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn). Asbestos tiles were used to cut off connections between adjacent plots to avoid hydrological interference. Plastic pipes and containers were used to collect runoff water. Results showed that more than 90% of trace elements were lost in sediment during low coverage and heavy rainfall periods. Compared with the 5 m riparian zone, the total trace element loss was reduced by 69–85% during the whole observation period in the 10 m riparian zone and by 86–99% during heavy rain periods in the 10 m riparian zone, which was due to reduction in runoff and concentrations of sediment and trace elements in the 10 m riparian zone. Indirect negative effects of riparian zone width on trace element loss through runoff and sediment concentration were found. These results indicated that the wide riparian zone promoted water infiltration, filtered soil particles, and reduced soil erosion and trace element loss. Riparian zones can be used as environmental management measures after mining areas are closed to reduce the spread of environmental risks in mining wastelands, although the long-term effects remain to be determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Chen, Yunchun, Li, Wei, Cai, Xinchen, Li, Bo, Zhan, Fangdong, Zu, Yanqun, He, Yongmei

المصدر: Plants (2223-7747); Mar2024, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p891, 17p

مصطلحات موضوعية: RHODODENDRONS, RHIZOSPHERE, WASTE lands, PLANT biomass, MINES & mineral resources, STRUCTURAL equation modeling

مستخلص: The mining of metal minerals generates considerable mining wasteland areas, which are characterized by poor soil properties that hinder plant growth. In this study, a field plot experiment was carried out in the mining wasteland of the Lanping lead–zinc mine in Yunnan Province to study the effects of applying three organic materials—biochar (B), organic fertilizer (OF), and sludge (S)—at concentrations of 1% (mass fraction), on promoting the soil of mining wasteland and the growth of two plant varieties (Huolieniao and Yingshanhong). The results showed that the amount of available nutrients in the surface soil of a mining wasteland could be considerably increased by S and OF compared to the control check (CK). In the rhizosphere soils of two Rhododendron simsii varieties, the application of S increased the available phosphorus (P) content by 66.4% to 108.8% and the alkali-hydrolyzed nitrogen (N) content by 61.7% to 295.5%. However, the contents of available cadmium (Cd) and available lead (Pb) were reduced by 17.1% to 32.0% and 14.8% to 19.0%, respectively. Moreover, three organic materials increased the photosynthetic rate and biomass of two R. simsii varieties. Specifically, OF and S were found to significantly increase the biomass of R. simsii. Organic materials have direct impacts on the increased plant height and biomass of R. simsii. Additionally, organic materials indirectly contribute to the growth of R. simsii by reducing the content of available Cd and available Pb in rhizosphere soil while increasing the content of available nutrients according to the structural equation model (SEM). Overall, S can stabilize Cd and Pb, increase soil nutrient contents, and promote the growth of R. simsii effectively, and has great potential in the vegetation reconstruction of mining wasteland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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