Legal Issues of Land Use According to Their Designated Purpose

The Investigation of Variability of Heat Island Hazard According to Land Use and Land Cover Changesin Esfahan

Abstract Urban heat island (UHI) is one of the environmental phenomenon which has made difficult environmental conditions for citizen. This study aims to evaluate the spatial and locational variability of Esfahan urban heat island according to the role of land use. Thus an area about 190.2 square kilometers (km2) in Esfahan, as the microclimate, was studied. In order to analyze the relations...

Can We Rank Legal Systems According to Their Economic Efficiency?

Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation

Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use i...

Multi-purpose Land Information Systems: Technical, Economic and Institutional Issues

Advances in computer, surveying, and mapping technology have had a marked impact on the economic barriers to multipurpose land information systems. This has opened the way for institutional innovations that may help to achieve the data sharing and spatial registration objectives identified in the I960 National Research Council report on Multipurpose Cadastre.

Legal Issues Pertaining to the Use of Cell Phone Data

This paper examines the principal legal issues related to the use of cell phone data as evidence at trial and to establish a basis for obtaining wiretap orders or call detail records from service providers. Four scenarios are considered. The first three scenarios explore evidentiary issues related to data extracted from damaged SIM cards, partial data recovered from memory chips and deleted dat...