Environmental Engineering Reference
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Land carrying
capacity
Assessment and
evaluation
Natural capital
and assets
Land use plan
Anthropogenic
Objectives and
purposes
Economics and cost
effectiveness
Requirements for
implementation of land
use plan
Reassess, redesign and
reevaluate
Geoenvironmental land
management requirements
Protection of public health and
other biotic receptors
Protection-restoration of natural
capital and assets
Impacts
Mitigation, and
avoidance
No
Yes
Adopt land use plan
FIGURE 2.17
Example of procedure to be used to satisfy geoenvironmental land management issues in adoption and imple-
mentation of land-use plans.
management concerns. As with any project, the impacts to the geoenvironment must be
evaluated, and procedures for avoidance and mitigation of these impacts need to be estab-
lished. The end result of all of these must satisfy geoenvironmental land management
requirements—i.e., they must ensure that there are no threats to public health and other
biota—and that the natural capital and assets of the site are maintained. Reassessment and
redesign are necessary if initial land-use plans do not satisfy geoenvironmental impact con-
cerns. The key elements that must be satisied are preservation of natural capital and assets.
2.8 Concluding Remarks
We have focused on contamination of the land environment as one of the key issues in
protection of the natural capital and assets of the land environment.
• Geoenvironmental land management requires practise of the principles of
sustainability.
• Insofar as the land environment is concerned, environmental impacts associated
with anthropogenic activities can be in the form of changes in the quantity, qual-
ity, and renewal ability of the natural resources or capital items of the various fea-
tures that constitute the land environment.
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