UK folks, you can reply to the government consultation on land use. This is an important opportunity to advocate for rewilding, increasing transparency into land ownership, banning destructive practices like driven grouse shooting and burning moors, and more.
You can respond as an individual or on behalf of an organisation until April 25.
My responses, which you are free to use or adapt, are here: https://resilienceweb.org.uk/news/land-use-consultation
Systemic Drivers of Electric-Grid-Caused Catastrophic Wildfires - Implications for Resilience in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16010013 <-- shared paper
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#wildfire #electricgrid #ignitioncauses #wildfireprevention #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #risk #hazard #fire #wildfire #climatechange #Anthropocene #humanimpacts #infrastructure #massmovement #debrisflow #engineeringgeology #denudation #environment #ecosystems #ecology #loss #cost #economics #residential #waterquality #water #hydrology #electricty #energy #LahainaFire #CampFire #MarshallFire #SmokehouseCreek #fires #bushfire #vegetation #wind #weather #landuse #humanimpacts #utilitycompanies #utilities #resiliency
Our March News!
BSI launch #nature market principles TA'd by eftec Director, Ian Dickie: webinar tomorrow
Water Commission launch consultation + our work evaluating improvements to Cornish Rivers
Watch Kerry ten Kate's #envecon keynote on #landuse in the UK
www.eftec.co.uk/post/nature-...
https://www.eftec.co.uk/post/nature-markets-principles-water-for-growth-land-use-transition-speech-from-kerry-ten-kate
Fascinating short article for your Monday. It looks like Paris residents DID vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
A solid majority said yes to the plan.
Sprawl is one of the reasons I dislike living in the USA.
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America’s unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst | The Guardian
#Sprawl #LandUse #USCulture #USPolitics #Aesthetics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/maga-america-suburban-donald-trump
The Age of Solar Farms has truly arrived in Ireland!
…as have debates on land use, as farmers might want agricultural expansion, and villagers don’t like construction.
“However, the government hopes such misgivings might be eased by renewable energy community projects, in local ownership and control, with farmers involved as members or by leasing out land.”
Developments like this block not only neighbours' views but also the prospect of adapting planning regulations to facilitate economic growth.
Nacton giant warehouse leaves neighbours 'in tears'
As we talk about energy, we need to talk about a decrease in *overall* energy use—especially as so-called AI is a topic of conversation. Moving to renewables alone will not cut it. We also CANNOT afford to count on technology that might, eventually exist (e.g. meaningful carbon capture with some device or facility).
The time to take real action for ourselves was yesterday. Let’s push for it now
#agriculture #building #climate #construction #energy #landUse #transportation
(Edited: hashtags)
New #OpenAccess research in JTLU: “How #bikesharing changed destination distance for its users: A case study of Chicago Metropolitan Area” by Shubhayan Ukil, University of Michigan, and Aditi Misra, University of Colorado, Denver.
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2597
The paper examines the impact of #Divvy shared bike services in the #Chicago metro region on trip distance of its users across all trips from 2008 and 2018, finding an 0.84km reduction in average trip distance among Divvy users when #bikeshare was available.
Recommendations include planning for shared bike services that are integrated with #transit in urban areas and promoting mixed land use so that users can choose proximate destinations in dense urban areas.
The next paper I'm reading is 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy
farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Hu & Gill, 2022).
Feel free to follow along at home and look for my commentary in about a week or so.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10372-9
#Agriculture #UrbanPlanning #LandUse #Neolibralism #LandUseConflict #Dairy
In case you could use some joy this morning, a brief clip from the 20th Chiditarod in Chigago:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2xAwsuf/
Because the streets are for people, not mostly-empty cars and trucks
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber,
evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so
and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
After many years of maltreatment by colonists, the Karuk of California may once again burn their land:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/california-karuk-tribe-cultural-burns
This, as European Americans acknowledge that we fucked things up, that native people actually do know better.
@DemonHusky they're allowing six stories by right! :)
While I love cows, we gotta stop breeding so many and let the population come down.
A Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal
Reintroducing #wolves to Scottish Highlands could help expand native woodland and store a million tonnes of CO2 annually. Currently growing red #deer populations eat tree saplings and suppress natural regeneration of #trees & woodland: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/5734/reintroducing-wolves-to-scottish-highlands-could-help-address-climate-emergency #landuse #biodiversity #forests
As this is Mastodon, let me pre-emptively point out that, yes, these scientists are aware that >90% of teaching Climate Neutrality is about emissions reductions, not removals.
The IPCC is also aware of this, as am I at the European Commission.
All these people already wrote reports on that, this one is about land sinks and technological removals.
EU Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change comes out with new report on carbon removals.
They recommend, i.a.
“Separate targets, stronger innovation support and environmental safeguards…
Integrating permanent removals into the EU carbon market over time for a cost-effective deployment…
Reversing the EU’s land sink decline”
(3/4) Animal-based foods consistently impact #landuse, GHG emissions, #nitrogen input & ammonia #emissions more than #plant-based alternatives. A high demand for animal feed necessitates extensive utilization of cropland & for #fertilizers substantial nitrogen inputs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281
Greg Cocks 
