At the forefront of the argument for government-directed land use planning is the notion that ‘citizen participation’ in urban land use decisions can avoid the problems associated with bureaucratic governance and tackle widespread instances of ‘market failure’. Using illustrations from the British land use planning system this paper argues that participatory planning models are insufficiently a...

A great deal of research on opinion mining and sentiment analysis has been done in specific contexts such as movie reviews, commercial evaluations, campaign speeches, etc. In this paper, we raise the issue of how appropriate these methods are for documents related to land-use planning. After highlighting limitations of existing proposals and discussing issues related to textual data, we present...

Over the last two decades, Pakistan has made considerable progress in reducing absolute poverty and improving shared prosperity, but most of population remains poor or vulnerable. A key dimension social vulnerability South Asia is exposure to hydrological meteorological hazards including storms, floods, droughts. In this review, a questionnaire from inhabitants assess adequacy existing urban pl...

The biological activities of a protein isolate from lupin (Lupinus albus) were studied in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis. Focal plaque development was induced at both common carotid arteries by perivascular injury. After surgery, animals were fed three different diets for 90 d, all with 1% cholesterol, 15% SFA and 20% protein; the protein source was casein (CAS), lupin proteins (LUP) or 50% ...

in land use planning, mapping the present land use / land cover situation is a necessary tool for determining the current condition and for identifying land use trends. in this study, in order to provide a land use/ land cover map for ilam watershed, the irs-1c image data from 25th april 2006 were used. initial qualitative evaluation on data showed no significant radiometric error. ortho-rectif...

Analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. In this study, the land use maps in the Ardabil plain in north-west part of Iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. T...