At College & Research Libraries we do not get many articles on the topic of academic library leadership. I wonder why, because I think this is one of the most important and enduring topics in our profession. Maybe it is because this is a big and difficult topic to pin down. What exactly is leadership? What aspects of leadership are we talking about: defining leadership, evaluating leadership st...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1994) 18 (1): 69-81 ©New Zealand Ecological Society These two scientific Societies appreciate the opportunity to comment on the important question of sustainable land management for the South Island high country. We recognise that considerable thought has been put into the questions we have been posed. We also recognise that some questions pre-suppose a particula...

Land cover/land use categories are relevant components in land management. Understanding how land cover/land use change over time is necessary to assess the consequences of humans and natural stressors on the earth’s environment and resources. The aim of the study was to map and monitor the spatial and temporal change in land cover/land use for the periods of 1977, 1991 and 2016 and to predict ...

< p>Successful implementation of land reform requires the implementation of large-scale market transformations, in particular in the structure of land tenure and land use, in the field of land valuation. The article is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological bases of economic evaluation and use of land resources of agricultural enterprises, substantiation of approaches and r...

Brazilian intensive production of broiler chickens has stood out as an important livestock activity for the country and its main obstacle is the energy supply for birds’ ambience. Analysis of energy conversion processes based on exergy takes into account the quantity and quality of transformed energy. This concept can be applied to the production chain of broiler chickens, contributing to deter...

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...

SUMMARY Digital earth and e-government have significant impacts on the development of different land information systems in China in the recent decade. There was a tide of building up electronic land databases upon the traditional urban cadastral and land information management systems in wealthy cities. Most of these systems lack coordination, inter-operation, data sharing or exchange function...

In this paper, the possibilities of developing the national information infrastructure by applying the Land AdministrationDomainModel (LADM) are discussed. Confirmation of the legitimacy of using the LADM within the (Spatial) Information Infrastructure (SII) context is illustratedwith the case of Poland. Creating the information infrastructure is an immense challenge because its components are ...