E-collaboration users tend to abandon their technology when they feel dissatisfied by their experience, even if they have been productive. It is therefore important to understand the causes of satisfaction so we can design and deploy e-collaboration in ways that make users both productive and satisfied. We advance a theory proposing satisfaction as a function of a perceived change in the likeli...

Executive Summary Increasing global demand for food and the need to address climate change risk make it ever more urgent to both protect ecosystems and use land more productively and efficiently. Brazil is a key player in this context and has made significant gains in recent decades. Between 1970 and 2006, its average national cattle farm productivity doubled and its average national crop farm ...

This paper aims to introduce and discuss six challenges and issues facing the development of SDIs which will be able to meet the sustainable development objectives of society. These issues and challenges include: SDI to facilitate spatially enabled government Role of government, private and academic sectors Development of SDI vision, mission and road map – where are we heading? SDI to facilitat...

Title of Dissertation: THREE ESSAYS ON NON-BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, AND THE REGULATION OF PUBLIC LAND IN THE UNITED STATES Michael H. Taylor, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Robert G. Chambers Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay, "The Spatial Consequences of Non-Bala...

This paper summarizes the literature on spatial filtering for analysis of spatial data, as proposed by Griffith (2000a). Given the scarcity of its application in transportation and its fledgling nature, preliminary case studies were conducted using continuous and discrete response data sets, for land values and land use, in comparison with results from spatial autoregressive models with distanc...

Land registration and cadastral systems exist in great variety. This paper describes the rich history of Zambian land tenure systems and discusses the present land tenure system. Zambia has a dual land tenure system: customary tenure and formal title registration. In the customary system the chiefs regulate the allocation of the land. They rule with the consent of their people. This system is c...

Based on the economic theory of the family, this paper constructs a model of remittances where the migrant, besides sending money to his family, also invests in his home country. The investment is looked after by a family member in return for some monetary compensation. The model focuses on two different cases: state-contingent transfers (transfers are tied to investment outcomes) and fixed tra...

Transferring between surfaces is an important part of wheelchair users’ lives and are performed an average of 11 to 20 times each day (Koontz, Bass, & Cooper, 2015). When people think of wheelchair transfers, often what comes to mind are transfers to or from another surface that is similar in height, such as wheelchair-to-bed or wheelchair-to-car transfers. Transfers that are considered less of...

Abstract Land-use and land-cover change significantly modify local land-surface characteristics water/energy exchanges, which can lead to atmospheric circulation regional climate changes. In particular, deforestation accounts for a large portion of global land-use changes, transforms forests into other land cover types, such as croplands grazing lands. Many previous efforts have focused on obse...

The application of the cadastral concept in common law jurisdictions is reviewed. The relationship between a cadastre and a statewide parcel based land information system is highlighted. The origins and evolution of cadastres are described. The characteristics and development of existing land administration systems in common law jurisdictions are discussed. It is suggested that there is a consi...