Length and Structure: The ITSEA has two forms: a Parent Form and a Childcare Provider Form. Both forms can be selfadministered or administered as a structured interview. If both parents fill out self-administered questionnaires, it is important that they do so independently. The Parent Form consists of 4 domains with 17 subscales for a total of 166 items. The Childcare Provider Form is the same...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P. O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Antti Pohjoranta Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted October 26, 2009 Manuscript revised February 3, 2010 Date of the defence March 19, 2010 Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Monograph Faculty Department Field of research Opponent(s) Su...

This paper describes the structure of the LAND USE SCANNER model, a GIS based model developed to generate spatial forecasts for various types of land use for a large number of grids. The model basically allocates land according to bid prices for various types of land use. The possibility of government intervention in land use is taken into account among others by adding aggregate constraints. T...

*Support for this paper was provided by Cooperative Agreement 43-3AEM-3-80137 between USDA and the University of Illinois. It does not represent the official views of either institution. This draft has benefitted from discussions with Ken Chomitz, Peter Feather, Charles Hallahan, Ralph Heimlich, Laurian Unnevehr, and participants in seminars at IFPRI, the World Bank, Resources for the Future, U...

This paper reviews the need for a new land administration vision that takes a more integrated approach rather than the historic fragmented approach and examines change management of land administration and cadastral systems in the context of global drivers of change. This results in the development of a framework for re-engineering land administration systems. After discussing a land administra...

The practicalities of a modern land administration system require some means of boundary adjustment (or repair). Of the possible mechanisms it is concluded that an alternative to adverse possession, statutory encroachment, is preferable to part parcel adverse possession.

3.1 LAND TENURE SECURITY AND LEGALIZATION............................................................... 8 3.1.1 Land Tenure Security and Legalization: Lessons Learned...........................13 3.2 IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE DELIVERY.............................................. 15 3.2.1 Infrastructure and Building Standards ............................................................