Since the Land Administration Bureau was established in 1986, China has carried out the national land-use planning twice, of which the first was focused on "serving for social and economic development", and the second converted to “protecting arable land". At present a new round of land-use planning is ongoing (2005-2020), but the aims and requirements are even more and higher(Zheng Weiyuan,200...

Zambia has in the recent years witnessed domestic and international land boundary conflicts as a result of commercialization, urban-rural migration and high demand for customary land and its consequent translation into monetary values due to improper land demarcation system and partial documentation of customary land parcels. In this study we propose the utilization and integration of Informati...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity and associated co-morbidities such as obesity and cardiovascular disease are estimated to have large societal costs. There is increasing interest in examining the role of the built environment in shaping patterns of physical activity. However, few studies have: (1) simultaneously examined physical activity for leisure and utility; (2) selected study areas with a r...

The study aims to effects of Land Use / Land Cover Changes (LU/LCC) is the quantitative method, to expound the impact of land use/land cover changes in Manimuktha sub-watershed of Vellar basin, Tamilnadu, India. The relationship between Land Use Changes and its trend is analysed using IRS IC LISS III and PAN merged data. Further, the preparation of LU/LC map using Survey of India (SOI) Toposhee...

This paper develops a model to understand the mechanism that might explain how land rights security may facilitate labor specialization. The theoretical framework suggests that with secured land rights, households with high farming ability are likely to invest in land while households with low farming ability tend to investment in human capital and migrate. Land security is identified as whethe...

the purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. the survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely kedah, kelantan, terengganu, pahang, perak, selangor and johor in peninsular malaysia. a total of one-hundred and sixty seven ffv farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

Land capability classification (LCC) of a soil map unit is sought for sustainable use, management and conservation practices. High speed, high precision and simple generating of rules by machine learning algorithms can be utilized to construct pre-defined rules for LCC of soil map units in developing decision support systems for land use planning of an area. Decision tree (DT) is one of the mos...

A wide range of urban ecosystem studies, including urban hydrology, urban climate, land use planning and resource management require current and accurate geospatial data of urban impervious surfaces. We developed an approach to quantify urban impervious surfaces as a continuous variable by using multi-sensor and multi-source datasets. Subpixel percent impervious surfaces at 30-meter resolution ...

The rapid technological development of active and passive remote sensing has proved of great value for forest monitoring and assessment worldwide. To make full use of this development, Australian land managers need efficient routines and tools tailored for operations in Australian landscapes. The development of these tools should focus on the most important forest attributes from a land managem...

Land is one of the prime natural resources. A city grows not only by population but also by changes in spatial dimensions. Urban population growth and urban sprawl induced land use changes and land transformation. The land transformation is a natural process and cannot be stopped but it can be regulated. Many geographical changes at the urban periphery are associated with the transfer of land f...