Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com learnt from the Macasan and the Buginese, who stop by in the island on their trip to fish in the Southern seas, that fishing can make much easier money than farming in dry lands. Nevertheless, most of them remain among the poorest in the island. In fact, most of income coming from fishing goes to the boss who owns the boat and equipment, and most im...

Increased development results in the loss of forest, farm, range, and other open space lands that contribute to the quality of life of U.S. residents. I describe an economic rationale for growing public support for preserving local open space, based the growing scarcity of open space lands. I test the rationale empirically by correlating the prevalence of open space referenda in U.S. counties t...

Abstract The importance of forests for their functions other than timber and wood production has dramatically increased in the last decades with awareness risks deriving from deforestation acknowledgment great amount goods benefits provide. Consequently, national forest inventories have widened objectives nowadays include variables related to environmental aspects. Among these aspects, biodiver...

The looting of antiquities from archaeological sites on public lands has been a problem for as long as there have been public lands managed by governments for the public good. In the USA, there is a significant, well-documented and ongoing problem with archaeological sites on public lands being damaged or destroyed through the pursuit of obtaining archaeological objects. In New Zealand, the qua...

The problem of evaluation of agricultural land suitability is consid­ ered as a fuzzy modeling task. For assessment of land suitability, it is proposed to use fuzzy indicators. Application of individual fuzzy indicators gives oppor­ tunity for assessment of suitability of lands as degree or grade of performance when the lands are used for agricultural purposes. Using composite fuzzy indi­ cator...

The main purpose of the present study was to assess the ecological capability of agricultural soils using geographic information system (GIS). This research was conducted during 2014 in Hamedan Province, Iran. A cross-sectional study was conducted mapping the 10 factors of soil characteristics (texture, depth, erosion, and aggregation, percentage of slope, direction of slope, height, soil salin...