In the context of real estate, land is defined as a property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment that does not occur naturally. Depending on the title, land ownership may also give the holder the rights to all natural resources on the land. These may include water, plants, human and animal life, fossils, soil, minerals, electromagnetic features, geographical location, and geoph...

Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229 D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malchei Israel St, Jerusalem, Israel 95501, Department of Geolog...

1 Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), PO Box 7043, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 760 Davis Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1710, USA 3 Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0116, USA 4 Dep...

A signi cant portion of the world's population is under the in uence of monsoon changes. Understanding of physical processes governing the evolution of Asian monsoon is not only important for regional climate variation, but also crucial to global climate variation. Besides bringing rain to land, monsoons also change ocean currents, ocean upwelling, and coastal ecology. Over land the consequence...

T he one-hundreth anniversary of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) is an appropriate occasion to reflect on the future of geography in the U. S. During the past hundred years, American geography has been haunted by various dichotomies—none more pronounced than the distinction between human and physical geography. Although the dichotomy can be viewed as invalid (James 1967), it is ne...

the study was carried out to investigate the effective soil and topographic features on distribution of plant types in sanib taftan watershed in sistan-and-balouchestan province, iran. initially, land units map was specified by combining three maps of slope, aspect and altitude. five types including artemisia santolina- hammada salicornica, artemisia sieberi- amygdalus lycioides, artemisia lehm...

This chapter provides a historical perspective on the relationship between land and confl ict in Colombia, in which land is identifi ed as both a source and resource of confl ict. This relationship is central to understanding forced displacement in Colombia and this study argues that in light of signifi cant shortfalls in translating state policy on land and IDPs into practice, humanitarian age...

This editorial introduces the 2-part special issue on Temperature-related Sciences in Australia and New Zealand within the journal Temperature ; Part 1: Volume 3, Issue 2 and Part 2: Volume 3, Issue 3. The question posed, “How hot is it Down Under?,” and indeed possible answer(s) can be construed in different ways depending on one’s standpoint. For example, Terra Australis (Latin: “southern lan...

1 Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada 2 The Global Environment and Climate Change Centre, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada 3 McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada 4 Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA 5 Dept. of Geography, Trent Un...

Executive Summary Increasing global demand for food and the need to address climate change risk make it ever more urgent to both protect ecosystems and use land more productively and efficiently. Brazil is a key player in this context and has made significant gains in recent decades. Between 1970 and 2006, its average national cattle farm productivity doubled and its average national crop farm ...