Introduction Most new technology in production agriculture is labor saving and capital intensive. This increases the importance of evaluating the efficiency of asset use. In particular, because they make up a large proportion of assets on most farms, it is important to evaluate land and machinery use (land and machinery made up 46 percent and 20 percent of total assets on Kansas Farm Management...

In the EU-project PLUREL we develop scenarios for future land use development in European urban regions facing population growth or shrinkage. We combine the spatially explicit modelling work with a participatory approach to involve stakeholder knowledge on drivers and policy instruments to steer land use development. Our scenario technique aims at incorporating feedbacks from planning into lan...

Observations from SSMI/S are still not as intensively used in NWP as are observations from other microwave sensors. Despite their large information content, these observations are still insufficiently used. Some feasibility studies have been conducted within the ECMWF assimilation system as preliminary steps to use SSMI/S observations over land and under cloudy/rainy situations. New development...

A simple land property registration procedure cannot be taken for granted in Tanzania. Nevertheless, it is crucial for private investment and wealth accumulation in one of the poorest countries in the world. To improve the formal land registration procedures is currently one of the topmost items on the agenda of the Tanzania Government. To help speed up the technical implementation of an improv...

Rapid industrialization, as one of the main driving forces promoting sustainable economic growth, has increased the area of industrial land use significantly. Industrial land use manifests that the competition between it and other kinds of land use is growing. During the last decade in China, many targeted industrial land use policies have been enacted to stimulate appropriate industrial land u...