introduction the most important subject in villager's researches is survey of household's incomes. most of iran villagers are farmers and they live with money of selling agriculture outputs. then every event that damages their outputs, can cause villagers poor. in this paper, we introduce a model for studying the effects of agriculture outputs improvement on poverty in villages. for e...

This paper describes the structure of the LAND USE SCANNER model, a GIS based model developed to generate spatial forecasts for various types of land use for a large number of grids. The model basically allocates land according to bid prices for various types of land use. The possibility of government intervention in land use is taken into account among others by adding aggregate constraints. T...

the purpose of the current research was to assess and analyze the effects of land renovation and development schemes. the work was carried out as case study in khor o biabanak area of esfahan province. the research was based upon survey, utilizing questionnaire and interview as tools to gather data. the statistical population contained all the land holdings related to the projects who had recei...

Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping is a proven technology for topographical surveys with accuracies equivalent to traditional land surveys. It is characterized by an automatic data capture and direct digital data processing. Since about 10 years Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping is an economical alternative to survey large and unaccessible areas, whit a short survey to product realisation time and wit...

Methods The questionnaire was designed based on the internationally valid questionnaires for respiratory illness. The respiratory health survey was approved by the Directorate of Education – Delhi and schools were selected based on land usage pattern i.e. commercial (Chandni Chowk), industrial (Mayapuri) and residential (Sarojini Nagar) areas. Approximately 1800 students (600 / zone) of age 10 ...

for helpful discussions in the design of survey modules related to the land registration and family law. We also thank participants at the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey Workshop at Lalibela, with special thanks to Paul Dorosh, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Stefan Dercon, Valerie Mueller and Tassew Woldehanna. All errors and omissions are our own. 1 Kes be kes enqullal be-egrwa tihedalech. Littl...

Highly erratic rainfall patterns in northern Benin complicate the ability of rural farmers to engage in subsistence agriculture. This research explores gender-specific responses to climate variability in the context of agrarian Benin through a household survey (n = 260) and an experimental gaming exercise among a subset of the survey respondents. Although men and women from the sample populatio...

*Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, U.S.A. {Alaska Fire Service, Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box 35005, Fort Wainwright, Alaska 99703, U.S.A. {Department of Meteorology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, U.S.A. 1Earth Surface Processes Team, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225,...