Ecological land is a land use category provided with considerable ecological value and a vital indicator reflecting regional eco-environmental quality. However, it has experienced severe fragmentation during the rapid urbanization in China which strongly threatened the regional ecological security, land use pattern and human living environment. Therefore, analysis of spatiotemporal change of ec...

Land suitability analysis, commonly known as land evaluation, is considered an interface between land resourcesurvey and land use planning and management. Land evaluation be carried out to estimate the suitability of land fora specific use such as arable farming or irrigated agriculture. There are several established techniques for generatingland suitability evaluation. This research was carrie...

Surface waters are the most important economic resource for humans which provide water for agricultural, industrial and anthropogenic activities. Surface water quality plays vital role in protecting aquatic ecosystems. Unplanned urbanization, intense agricultural activities and deforestation are positively associated with carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous related water quality parameters. Multip...

Due to the focused pursuit of economic growth in the process of the large-scale urban development of China, the phenomena of low land use efficiency and discordance of land use induce unwanted economic, social, and environmental costs. This paper presents a comprehensive study of urban land use efficiency and of the degree of land use coordination of 33 cities in China, using theoretical analys...

• Observe that land sales markets between large landlords and small peasants are thin/segmented because: 1. Land is overpriced for small buyers relative to value in use (borrowing capacity): the price of land internalizes tax advantages, expected speculative gains, wealth sheltering, social status effects, and collateral value. 2. Smallholders do not have access to long term credit. 3. Even if ...

Zambia has in the recent years witnessed domestic and international land boundary conflicts as a result of commercialization, urban-rural migration and high demand for customary land and its consequent translation into monetary values due to improper land demarcation system and partial documentation of customary land parcels. In this study we propose the utilization and integration of Informati...

In a recen t study, Peng and Wheaton empirically exam ine the effect of restricti ve land supply on Hong Kong house prices. However, we argue that the impact of the supply of new land by the Hong Kong government is not as important as they maintain in accounting for the volatile house prices in Hong Kong. We show that there is no causal relation ship between land supply and housing prices. Our ...