ABSTRACT
Kuwait’s master plan helped bring out the need and urgency to protect lands that were classified traditionally as desert lands. The overall concern of the master plan for a very strict application policy to develop and protect the natural setting of desert lands included the urgent need to create boundaries for areas of distinctive nature and environmental quality. The overall view is to point out the positive and negative aspects of desert activities including the utilization of rangeland as a natural resource, attributary to the national income and environmental protection. Results and recommendations focus on the improvement of the positive aspects of the master planning methodology in relation to natural conservation/preservation and rangeland in that context, with respect to rangeland versus other land-uses in Kuwait.
