Clarifying Theoretical and Applied Land-Use Planning Concepts

Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning

Clarifying concepts and categories of assumptions for use in evaluation.

In order to advance systematic examination of how evaluators work with assumptions, there is need for; first of all, a coherent synthesis and categorization of assumptions, as well as a discussion of their varied relevance in program design and evaluation. An emergent typology of assumptions as they are used in the literature will be proposed based on categories of assumptions as used in litera...

Land Use Planning

Clarifying Elkan's theoretical result

This paper is devoted to clarify the only theoretical result included in the controversial work of C. Elkan “The paradoxical success of fuzzy logic” (1994), by offering both a short proof of it and a larger one that tries to show the structural reasons of such result.

Land Use Planning and Productive Capacity Assessment

The determination of the "productive capacity" of the land is the main component of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Agroecological Zones (AEZ) approach, and it is also an element in the sequence of land evaluation and land use planning as advocated by FAO for use in developing countries. The nature of the subject lends itself to little or no privatization, whi...