Biosecurity issues in rural areas including the rural-urban fringe have been on the national government agenda for decades. However, these issues are rarely linked to the land use pattern and the planning processes that frame the peri-urbanisation process. International, national, regional and localised stressors leading to each new biosecurity threat seem to constantly overshadow the ongoing t...

The reconstruction of human impact is pivotal in palaeoecological studies, as humans are among the most important drivers Holocene vegetation and ecosystem change. Nevertheless, separating anthropogenic footprint on dynamics from climate other environmental factors (disturbances such fire, erosion, floods, landslides, avalanches, volcanic eruptions) a challenging still largely open issue. For t...

Land use planning practices have been economically justified as an efficient means of producing and distributing valuable information relevant to property markets and further reducing the intrinsic uncertainties and transaction costs involved in land development processes. However, although this method of justification, in addition to traditional welfare-economics-based rationales, has been ado...

This paper describes a class of spatial planning problems in which di,erent land uses have to be allocated across a geographical region, subject to a variety of constraints and con.icting management objectives. A goal programming/reference point approach to the problem is formulated, which leads however to a di/cult nonlinear combinatorial optimization problem. A special purpose genetic algorit...

Context. RU Lup is a Classical T Tauri star with unusually strong emission lines, which has been interpreted as manifestations of accretion. Recently, evidence has accumulated that this star might have a variable radial velocity. Aims. We intended to investigate in more detail the possible variability in radial velocity using a set of 68 high-resolution spectra taken at the VLT (UVES), the AAT ...

< p>Successful implementation of land reform requires the implementation of large-scale market transformations, in particular in the structure of land tenure and land use, in the field of land valuation. The article is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological bases of economic evaluation and use of land resources of agricultural enterprises, substantiation of approaches and r...