Correcting defective land use planning

Biodiversity is often adversely affected by planning and development decisions and actions. This may be through a failure to incorporate biodiversity considerations into physical planning documents, such a regional plans and structure plans; through inadequate information and misguided decisions; or because of inappropriate policies.

1. Restoring
2. Managing land use
3. Correcting

1. Recovering land lost to plantations
2. Protecting best farmland for agriculture
3. Increasing amount of cultivable land
4. Employing unused land
5. Development planning

1. Undertaking research on land use
2. Practising restorative farming
3. Land use planning

1. Defective land use planning
2. Blighted land use

1. Unused
2. Underuse
3. Land
4. Defectiveness
5. Blight
6. Abuse