A large amount of the role of the land surveyor, land registries and land information systems is concerned with building and maintaining a land administration infrastructure where one of its primary tasks is to support the operation of an efficient and effective land market. This includes cadastral surveys to identify and subdivide land, land registry systems to support simple land trading (buy...

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...

Taking as an example the land resources management in Dingzhuang town, Guangrao County, Shandong province, this thesis makes sufficient investigation and demand analysis in accordance with the features of land resources management in villages and towns. It studied in details the main content of land resources management in villages and towns. On this basis, the thesis first makes a general desi...

T he 1999 Purdue Land Values Survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was $2,092 per acre in June 1999. This was $63 less than the value reported in June 1998, a 2.9 percent decrease. This decline ends 11 consecutive years of increasing values. Cash rents declined from 1998 to 1999 on average land by a little less than two percent to $110 per acre. This is the...

The purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. The survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Johor in Peninsular Malaysia. A total of one-hundred and sixty seven FFV farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

the background of consideration to local and national characteristics of land preparation management in development plans is recently and also of old. it is of old because it is traced back to human presence in land area and definition of the land and curiosity about life. it is recent because it has been begun in the last 100 years and it started mainly in the half of the past century and afte...

Arresting land degradation in impoverished rural environments is a global priority. Restoration ecology provides a promising framework, but it will need to be modified when applied to a rural development setting. There is a need for increased understanding of social dynamics in land restoration, however few systematic studies exist. This paper explores the social factors influencing restoration...

The sharp decline in Indiana farmland values is about over. That's the conclusion of a majority of Purdue land values survey respondents who answered a question on when and at what level land values will "bottom out." Fifty-eight percent of those who responded to the question believe that the low point in land values will be 95 to 100 percent of mid-1987 values. An additional 25 percent felt th...

The Phase 1 Survey is the most comprehensive and widely used national level map of semi-natural habitats in Wales. However, the survey was based largely on field survey and was conducted over several decades, before being completed in 1997. Given that resources for a repeat survey were limited, this study has used an object-orientated rule-based classification implemented within eCognition of m...