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The document discusses the importance of land use planning in managing various land uses such as agriculture, forestry, and urban expansion, emphasizing the need for an iterative process that adapts to changing circumstances. It outlines the goals of land use planning, which include efficiency, equity, acceptability, and sustainability, and explains how objectives and targets guide decision-making. Ultimately, the aim is to optimize land resources while addressing present and future needs and resolving conflicts among competing uses.

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The document discusses the importance of land use planning in managing various land uses such as agriculture, forestry, and urban expansion, emphasizing the need for an iterative process that adapts to changing circumstances. It outlines the goals of land use planning, which include efficiency, equity, acceptability, and sustainability, and explains how objectives and targets guide decision-making. Ultimately, the aim is to optimize land resources while addressing present and future needs and resolving conflicts among competing uses.

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the need for improved management or the need for a quite different pattern of land use dictated by

changing circumstances. In the process all kinds of land use are involved: agriculture, forestry,
wildlife conservation, urban and industrial expansions, tourism and amenities. Planning also
provides guidance in case of conflicts among manifold alternatives, by indicating which areas are
most valuable for any particular land use. Land use planning can be viewed as an iterative and
continuous process, whose aim is to make the best use of land resources by:
 assessing present and future needs and evaluating the land’s availability to meet them;
 identifying and resolving conflicts among competing uses and needs;
 devising alternative options and choosing those that best fit identified targets;
 learning from experience.

At every stage, as better information is available, the process may have to be changed to take
account of it.
Goals are important elements in the planning process. They define what is meant by the best use of
the land and they have to be specified at the outset of every planning project.Goals, normally, are
divided into objects and targets.
Objectives are the general aims within the planning process. They allow the judging of different
solutions of a concrete problem in the planning area, and lead to suitable propositions and projects
for the use of the land.The targets are the most detailed aims of land use planning. They lead to the
design of actual measures that have to be taken and carried out in an area to solve the problems at
hand.
The objectives and targets identify the best use of the land. If two different forms of land use bring
forth exactly the same profit (economically and socially), the objectives will determine which of the
two land uses should be implemented, while the targets will indicate which procedures should be
followed.
The goals, as a whole, may be grouped under three main headings: efficiency, equity and
acceptability and sustainability.
 Efficiency refers to the economic viability of the land use plan.
The plan should yield more than it costs. So one goal of planning development is to make
efficient and productive use of the land. In general terms, for any particular land use, certain
areas are better suited than others. Efficiency is achieved by matching different land uses with
the areas that will yield the greatest benefit at the least cost. However, it is not always clear
which land use is the most profitable one; this depends on the point of view. The point of view
of individuals, for instance, focuses on the greatest return on capital and labour invested or on
the greatest benefit from the area available. Government’s point of view is more complex: it
may include improving the foreign exchange situation by producing for export or for import
substitution.
 Equity and acceptability represent the social features of land use planning.
The plan must be accepted by the local population, otherwise the proposed changes will not
take place. Equity refers to the levelling of the living standards of the residents. People living in
the planning area are expected to gain from the land use plan, even if they do not own the land.
Living standards may include levels of income, food security and housing. Planning to achieve
these standards then involves the allocation of land for specific uses as well as the allocation of
financial and other resources.
 Sustainability, as stated before, refers to a development in land use planning that meets the
needs of the present while conserving resources for future generations.
This requires a combination of production and conservation: the production of the goods
needed by the people now, combined with the conservation of the natural resources on which
the production depends. So, land use to be sustainable, has to be planned for the community as
a whole, because the conservation of soil, water and other land resources is often beyond the
means of individual land users.

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