Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

Urbanization can result in alteration of a watershed's hydrologic response and water quality. To simulate hydrologic and water quality impacts of land use changes, the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) system has been used. The L-THIA system estimates pollutant loading based on direct runoff quantity and land use based pollutant coefficients. The accurate estimation of direct runo...

Land use and land cover (LULC) can significantly alter river water, which in turn have important impacts on downstream coastal ecosystems by delivering nutrients that promote marine eutrophication hypoxia. Well-documented temperate systems, less is known about the way relates to water quality low-lying zones tropics. Here we evaluate catchment LULC physical chemical characteristics of six river...

This paper develops an integrated framework to analyze the effects of agricultural land use change drivers (market prices, policy, climate, etc.) upon the ecological quality of rivers. Our approach integrates a land use model with a model of river biology. The agricultural model encompasses land use areas, input application, crop yields and livestock stocking rate equations in a joint econometr...

Freshwater ecosystems provide vital resources for humans and support high levels of biodiversity, yet are severely threatened throughout the world. The expansion of human land uses, such as urban and crop cover, typically degrades water quality and reduces freshwater biodiversity, thereby jeopardizing both biodiversity and ecosystem services. Identifying and mitigating future threats to freshwa...

In hyperdiverse tropical forests, the key drivers of litter decomposition are poorly understood despite its crucial role in facilitating nutrient availability for plants and microbes. Selective logging is a pressing land use with potential for considerable impacts on plant-soil interactions, litter decomposition, and nutrient cycling. Here, in Borneo's tropical rainforests, we test the hypothes...

The urban landscape is inherently complex and this complexity is not adequately captured in air quality models, such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model that is used to assess whether urban areas are in attainment of EPA air quality standards, primarily for ground level ozone. This inadequacy of the CMAQ model, exacerbated by coarse low resolution land cover data inputs, inhibi...