Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are often addressed both in theories for urban development and in dynamic models of (urban) land use change. Neighbourhood interactions are one of the main driving factors in a large group of land use ch...

in this study, a model of optimal allocation of subsidy was developed based on the microeconomic optimization theory. the model was evaluated by applying to premium subsidy allocation to the cereal crops’ (corn, rain fed barley and wheat, and irrigated barley and wheat) insurance in iran. in developing the model, it was assumed that, policymaker on behalf of society, follows a social utility ma...

Institutions affect prospects for economic growth and development. This paper collapses potentially complex interactions of different institutions into a condition on the primitives that determines whether a society supports markets. Agents differ in land holdings, skill, and power, e.g. physical strength, wealth, or status. A competitive market assigns land efficiently to the skilled, not nece...

Although the aspects of both land use and coastal management represent part of the larger concept of sustainable development, the strength and interest with which these aspects are received varies considerably among countries. It is well known that land use planning can facilitate the allocation of land to those use(s) that provide the greatest sustainable benefits. However, in order to achieve...

The combination of GIS with fuzzy set theory and deterministic models is known as GIS Fuzzy Modelling (GISFM). GISFM was adopted for support sustainable land use planning. In particular GISFM is applied for solution of the problem of investment allocation into worse part of the land drainage systems located in the Saint-Petersburg suburbs. The missing data about loads on water bodies by agricul...

Fuzzy Image Regions were proposed recently as an alternative GEOBIA method for conducting qualitative land cover classification. In this paper, these fuzzy segments are applied for estimation of quantitative (i.e. compositional) land cover. The method comprises three main stages: (i) fuzzy segmentation to create segments with indeterminate boundaries and uncertain thematic allocation; (ii) feat...

TERESA SERRA, DAVID ZILBERMAN, JOSÉ M. GIL, AND ALLEN FEATHERSTONE* ________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The purpose of this article is to study the impact of agricultural policy decoupling on land allocation decisions. Our analysis contributes to the literature by formally assessing the effects of decoupling on farms’ crop mix and on the decision to...