This document outlines a module on land use planning tools. Part 1 discusses land use planning and classification, including determining land capability and suitability for different uses based on factors like climate, soil, and vegetation. It also covers techniques for determining land output. Part 2 discusses participatory monitoring and evaluation for improving management systems. Part 3 discusses involving women in environmental management, noting they are involved in many decision-making and land/forest product harvesting activities.

2. MODULE VII OUTLINE
Part 1. Land Use Planning Tools
 Determinant factors of Production and Services
 Classification of works on Land Capabilities
 Simple Methodology for Land Classification
 Techniques in Output Determination
 Factors Affecting Suitability of Forest Spices
Part 2. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
Part 3. Involvement of Women in
Environmental Management

3. PART 1. LAND USE PLANNING TOOLS
Land Use Planning
 It is the systematic assessment of land and
water potential, alternatives for land use, and
economic and social conditions in order to
select and adopt the best land use options
 Seeks to order and regulate land use in an
efficient and ethical way, thus preventing
land-use conflict.

4. DETERMINANT FACTORS OF PRODUCTION AND
SERVICES
The determination of what products to produce
and what services to provide is dependent on
three factors namely:
 the capability of the land,
 the available resources and potentials of the
land; and
 the constraints and opportunities present in
the forest resources environment.

5. CAPABILITY ANALYSIS
is the description of a landscape unit in terms
of its inherent capacity to produce a
combination of plants and animals. Factors that
affect capability includes topographic relief,
climate, and soil

6. CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS ON LAND
CAPABILITY
There are several systems of land capability
classification: empirical; socio-economic
classification; plant indicator method;
quantitative approach; and physical
classification.

7. EMPIRICAL
A classification system where existing land use is
observed, appraised as either a failure or a success.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION
The nature of the society which utilizes the land;
financial returns which are the results of such use; the
size and condition of infrastructure; tax delinquency;
school and farm location; land ownership; quality and
quantity of available labor; financial ability of the
operation; and operators‘ preferences and abilities

8. PLANT INDICATOR METHOD
The system adopts the concept that definite soil and
growth conditions are associated with certain plants or
types of vegetation.
QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
This system uses quantitative methods to measure
and correlate numerous variables known to influence
productivity.
PHYSICAL CLASSIFICATION
In this system, the factors which influence
plant/animal productivity are established.

9. SIMPLE METHODOLOGY FOR LAND
CLASSIFICATION
The simplest methodology for land classification
are as follows; locate areas which are
climatically unsuitable for plant production on
the basis of climatic data covering a wide
range of area and time.; consider
topographical characteristics and consider the
soil and its properties to determine areas
which can be used for agriculture. The
capability classification allows identification of:
unproductive land; areas capable of
supporting forest products; areas capable of
forest protection and grazing and areas
capable of forest tree growing, grazing, and
agriculture.

10. DATA NEEDS FOR LAND CAPABILITY
CLASSIFICATION
This phase will involve merely the selection of
appropriate maps to be prepared (i.e., overview and
detail level). Such maps may identify site productivity,
natural regeneration, choice of species, possibilities for
site amelioration and infrastructure/engineering.
 Overview Landscape Map
The information to be gathered includes the physical
and biological characteristics of the landscape units.
The essential information that need to be gathered at
this level are: topography; climate; soils and
geology; vegetation; and hydrology and land use
map.

11. DATA REDUCTION, REPORT WRITING AND
PRESENTATION
Overviewlevel
 Data reduction and synthesis begin by drawing a tentative land
surface pattern map on aerial photos or satellite imagery.
 The tentative land surface pattern map is converted into a land
capability map by interpreting and classifying surface patterns
with the aid of thematic maps. Boundary adjustment of the
landscape units is accomplished by further subdividing some of
the tentative surface patterns or by grouping others.
Detaillevel
 Vegetation and soil data are examined separately to see how the
data clusters compare to the preliminary aerial photo units. The
surface pattern map is finally modified. Tools for site identification
include field keys for site mapping, profile diagram showing
change along environmental gradients, and forest site map. The
valuation process can be extended by laboratory analysis of soil
for physical and chemical parameters.

12. TECHNIQUES IN OUTPUT DETERMINATION
The techniques in output determination includes
the following:
 Nature of the land, its physical form and
productive capabilities. This includes terrain,
climate, soil, existing vegetation, and other
physical and meteorological characteristics and
attributes.
 Productive resources and potential present
in the land. A land use alternative will have a
particular required resource base: timber for
natural timber production, mineral deposits for
mineral production, reaction potentials such as
waterfalls and pleasant climate for action.
 Compatibility of the land use alternatives

13.  Demand for the commodity or the service. It
would be completely futile if the management
of the forest will be directed towards the
production of goods/provision of services for
which a need does not exit.
 Communities and the people concerned
feel about the land uses being considered
 Existing laws and policies which could
preempt a given land use alternative. An
example of this

14. SUITABILITY ANALYSIS
 Its main objective is to present to the land
manager a list of potential uses of the land a
given area. Suitability assessment deals with
evaluation and rating. In this activity we
determine particularly the ability of landscape to
sustain (or support) an array of likely uses
without significant site degradation. It does not
seek to answer which is the one best use of the
land. Rather, it simply tells which of the given
number of uses are suitable and which are not.

15. for FACTORS AFFECTING SUITABILITY OF
SPECIES, THE FOLLOWING FACTORS SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED;
 Climatic Factors
This related to the average state and ordinary long term fluctuation in the
meteorological aspects of a given site. Climate is, more often than not, a
constraint with little room for alteration.
 Soil or Edaphic Factors
It is defined as a natural body on the earth‘s surface in which plants grow. It
provides water, essential nutrients and mechanical support to plants. Soils
can be changed in such a manner as to permit growth of species which
otherwise could not survive in a given locality.
 Physiographic Factors
These include site factors associated with the form and structure of the
earth:
1.) Altitude. It influences temperature. A rise in elevation is accompanied
by a fall in temperature;
2.) Slope. This refers to the angle of repose of the soil expressed in % or in
degrees. It greatly affects soil erosion and consequently sustainability.
 Biotic Factors
These are factors closely related with the flora and fauna life of the area.

16. PART 2. PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND
EVALUATION
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
systems are necessary for the improvement of
the management system. Project activities
should be monitored by a monitoring and
evaluation committee. The evaluation should
be based on criteria set by the committee.
Monitoring of the marketing is also necessary
to increase awareness of NTFPs.

17. PART 3. INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
This answer the issue on gender sensitivity
equality. Women are participants in decision
making activities: buying farm implements,
growing new crops, borrowing money, hiring
laborers for agriculture, buying livestock, choosing
fertilizer and other home affairs. The labor used of
obtaining forest products is very gender specific.
Some forest products are collected by men while
others are collected by women. Generally bamboo
and rattans are collected by men while root crops
and other light NTFPs are collected by women.
Most harvesting activities are done by men with
some assistance from their spouses and children.

18. Women are participants in decision making
activities: buying farm implements, growing new
crops, borrowing money, hiring laborers for
agriculture, buying livestock, choosing fertilizers
and other home affairs. Most activities in the
harvesting of agriculture crops are done by the
husband and wife. In Sta. Catalina, one of our
project sites, women actively participate in nursery
maintenance, planting, meetings, trainings and
income generating activities. As rural women are
very involved in NTFPs activities, they should be
included in planning and implementing programs.

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