3 A MODEL OF THE DETERMINANTS OF LAND USE 4 ECONOMETRIC TECHNIQUES 6

This paper is concerned with data and classifications that confuse the concepts of land cover and land use. Conceptual confusion is problematic for data integration and modelling. This has resulted in calls for the separation of land use and land cover from the global land monitoring community. Text mining approaches are combined with social network analyses as a method for unravelling the diff...

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...

Land units, land utilization types and land use systems need to be defined differently for different scale levels, eg, for farm, regional and world levels, as illustrated in this paper. The Hoosbeek and Bryant diagram, showing methodology as a function of spatial scales, is used to illustrate research procedures based on user demands. Land use decisions are made on strategic, tactical and opera...

An ever increasing population associated with various other factors has put tremendous pressure on the environment and its respective resources. Hence it has become necessary to study the human interactions with its surrounding environment to facilitate sustainable developmental plans. Land use and land cover is the most dominant factor to study these interactions. Remote Sensing technology has...

The objective of this project is to build a multi-agent system to simulate the decision making process of stakeholders in a residential land development project and the influence of such decisions on land-use resources. The environment over which decisions are made is the Town of Strathmore, Alberta, where competition for land-use resources is increasing as a result of its proximity to the City...

Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of “willing-buyer willing-seller”, market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort has been made so far to formalize the obstacles to market-led land redistribution. In this paper, we sh...