Sustainable Land-Use Planning Using GIS

Rabayah, Amer (2006) Sustainable Land-Use Planning Using GIS. Masters thesis, Birzeit University.

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Abstract

This study concerns with the urban expansion due to population growth which influence changing in the land use and land cover that effect natural resources and VII environment by changing the open lands or agricultural lands to urban areas. The study aims to understand the land use and land cover in Bethlehem district, in order to achieve a framework for formulating a regional land use plan for Bethlehem district. Bethlehem district affected deeply by the existing urban areas and especially the environment. These urban areas appear as a result of many factors, such as social, economical, environmental, and political, however, the study aims to understand the existing urban areas and to locate the suitable future urban areas within regional land use plan that take into consideration the socioeconomic and environmental factors. The analysis of the study heeded under the assumption of the sustainable development aspects which consider a deep influence for socio-economic and environmental aspects. The method to understand the problem depends on analyzing the available data acquired from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Ministry of Planning. The research passes through three main parts; firstly; understanding the theories and model used in sustainable land use planning, secondly; analyzing of socio-economic and environmental data of Bethlehem district, finally; Establishing future land use allocations and locations within Bethlehem district, based on sustainable land use model using multi criteria evaluation and the GIS for integrating the socio-economic spatial data layers and the physical infrastructure and environmental layers, with a full spectrum of urban and regional planning factors in a spatial modeling. The different levels of analysis led to formulate a sustainable land use plan for Bethlehem district that shows the importance of environmental considerations in the planning for future urban growth. The land use plan shows the most suitable VIII areas for urban development, and the areas that must be prevented from urban development.

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