AbstractsGeography &GIS

Urban encroachment towards the countryside are well known planning concern all over the globe. The problems associated with these occurrences are also on high critics, claiming that urban spread out reduces the efficient use of urban infrastructure like; roads, public utilities and wastes scarce resources outside the urban/city as arable land is consumed with increasing pressure on the nature areas (Antrop, 2004). The major problem encountered from urban sprawling involves mainly the rural urban communities that have lost their land to urban sprawls at various developmental levels. Farmer’s landscape management is of interest from a number of policy perspectives including sustainability, biodiversity, heritage and rural development (Hudson, 2003). With the common movement towards most nations to urbanize, there have been great disproportion in the scale, speed and spatial allocation of urban change and the feature that drive or pressures it and this also implies very dissimilar future courses for urbanization to diverse nations. However, the expansion of human ecosystem within the western world is bound to an extent by prepared systems namely planning and management. Evidently these systems, often evaluated through analysis of land use alterations, make obvious a retreating concern for human dependence on the entire environment. The overlapping planning system in Denmark consists of four levels which represented a hierarchy of plans. The state planning is an overarching national level, which establishes a frame work for regional and municipal planning. The state planning is particularly strong in the metropolitan area where the ‘Finger Plan’ controls urban development. This means that municipalities within the area itself cannot determine the extent of urban development and the nature of it.