Land Registration and Land Ownership on Semi-arid Area, Eastern Kenya

Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992--2004

The semi-arid grasslands in Inner Mongolia (IM) are under increasing stress owing to climate change and rapid socio-economic development in the recent past. We investigated changes in land cover/land use and landscape structure between 1992 and 2004 through the analysis of AVHRR and MODIS derived land cover data. The scale of analysis included the regional level (i.e. the whole of IM) as well a...

LUCID’s Land Use Change Analysis as an Approach for Investigating Biodiversity Loss and Land Degradation Project Land Tenure Reform and Changes in Land-Use and Land Management in Semi-Arid Tharaka, Kenya

Arid Land Research and Management

Arid Land Research and Management Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713926000 Soils and Brine Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Hyperarid Desert Playa, Ouargla Basin, Algerian Sahara Belhadj Hamdi-Aissa a; Vincent Valles b; Alain Aventurier c; Olivier Ribolzi d a Université de Ouargla, L. R. de Prot...

Exploring the relationship between land use and surface water quality using multivariate statistics in arid and semi-arid regions

The relative impacts of different types of land use on the surface water quality are yet to be ascertained and quantified. In this paper, the influence of different types of land use on surface water quality is investigated. Rain events samples from different land use in the central plateau, Iran, were analyzed for major ions. Statistical analyses were employed to examine the statistical relati...

effects of land registration on validity of juridical acts (emphasis on functions of land registration system)

guaranty of security of juridical act about lands is an important difficulty in every country. disregarding the independence of land registration system from the system of civil law –in enactment, interpretation and amendment of the land registration rules- and disregarding bases and functions of land registration system has resulted in some mistakes made by judicial doctrine and precedent in o...