LAND PLOTS MISUSE STATE LAND CONTROL

Assessment of Terrain and Land Use/Land Cover Changes of Mine Sites using Geospatial Techniques in Plateau State, Nigeria

In this paper, we report a geospatial assessment of the selected mine sites in the Plateau State, Nigeria. The aim of this work is to determine the impact of mining on the terrain as well as the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) of the host communities. The Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) is used for the terrain mapping. The derived impact of mining on LULC between 1975 and 2014 is determined...

State Land Use Laws and Regional Institutions

influence land - use decisions across state boundaries ?

This paper considers the fiscalization of land use in one state brought about by state regulation in a neighboring state. The idea that land use is ‘fiscalized,’ i.e. motivated by potential tax benefits, is well established in the literature (Chapman, 1988, 2008; Lewis, 2001; Wassmer, 2002; Pagano, 2004). The source of these motives is often attributed to a state’s control over the revenue stru...

Use and misuse of waterfall plots.

BACKGROUND "Waterfall plots" are used to describe changes in tumor size observed in clinical studies. Here we assess criteria for generation of waterfall plots and the impact of measurement error in generating them. METHODS We reviewed published waterfall plots to investigate variability in criteria used to define them. We then compared waterfall plots generated by different observers for 24 ...

Microclimate land surface temperatures across urban land use/ land cover forms

Urbanization brings biophysical changes in the composition of the landscape. Such change has an impact on the thermal environment locally. The urban mosaic of land use and land cover is thus characteristically composed of local climate zones. The spatial variation in the land surface temperature across specific zone is studied for Bhopal city. The objective of the study was to understand how th...