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Prioritizing Site-Selection And Use
Citation:
HANSEN, V. E. Prioritizing Site-Selection And Use. Presented at U.S.-German Bilateral Workshop, New York, NY, May 08 - 09, 2008.
Impact/Purpose:
To explore site-selection and land-use relative to their roles in economic investments and maintaining intact natural systems. To illustrate the application of site-selection and land-use planning for Stella, Missouri in order to achieve long-term intact social, economic, and ecological systems.
Description:
Land subject to remediation is usually considered relative to its availability and its potential financial return-on-investment. Typically, these short-term considerations are unrelated to the long-term conditional relationships that exist between humanity and a sustainable environment. Development intended to meet immediate human and economic needs predominantly trump environmental considerations. However, because all development of the built environment will incrementally and cumulatively consume the finite natural environment, site-selection, land-use, and the natural environment must be considered concurrently. Although site-selection and land-use to meet short-term economic and long-term social and environmental objectives appear to be contradictory, this presentation illustrates that they are compatible. This presentation is in two parts. The first part explores the concept of giving priority to site-selection and land-use relative to their roles in economic investments and maintaining intact natural systems. The second part illustrates the application of site-selection and land-use planning for the town of Stella, Missouri to achieve long-term intact social, economic, and ecological systems.