land vulnerable to desertification increased in the mediterranean basin since world war ii dueto several interacting factors including climate variations, land-use changes and growing human pressure. itwas hypothesized that the increase in the level of land vulnerability is not distributed homogeneously overtime and space while impacting preferentially landscapes surrounding large urban agglome...

Indicators of land quality (LQIs) are being developed as a means to better coordinate actions on land related issues, such as land degradation. Economic and social indicators are already in regular use to support decision making at global, national and sub-national levels and in some cases for air and water quality, but few such indicators are available to assess, monitor and evaluate changes i...

Land quality, a key economic capital supporting local development, is affected by biophysical and anthropogenic factors. Taken as a relevant attribute of economic systems, land quality has shaped the territorial organization of any given region influencing localization of agriculture, industry and settlements. In regions with long-established human-landscape interactions, such as the Mediterran...

The June 1999 Purdue Land Value Survey reported a reduction in land values for all classes of land. Given the low grain and livestock prices at the time, a decline in land values was not a surprise. However, in spite of continued low grain prices, the June 2000 Purdue Land Value Survey reported an increase in value for all land classes. Top-quality land had an estimated value of $2,715 per acre...

The evaluation of land quality plays an important role in the study of land resources. Some software of GIS was applied to evaluate land quality in recent years. There is some limitation in Appling GIS to evaluate land quality directly. GIS combined with MCE (Multi-Criteria Evaluation) can eliminate limitation existing in using GIS singly. In this thesis key technology of evaluating land qualit...

land vulnerable to desertification increased in the mediterranean basin since world war ii dueto several interacting factors including climate variations, land-use changes and growing human pressure. itwas hypothesized that the increase in the level of land vulnerability is not distributed homogeneously overtime and space while impacting preferentially landscapes surrounding large urban agglome...

sustainable exploitation of land resources is directly affected by considering soil quality which finally will also conclude environmental protection. therefore, assessing different soil quality aspects which are sensitive to various land management practices seems too important. in this study, some selected soil quality indicators have been compared in five land use systems including untouched...

this study evaluates the influence of yanã½klar creek on the water quality of fethiye gulf. accordingly, this study demonstrates (i) change in the water quality of fethiye gulf from 2006 to 2007; (ii) the water quality classification of the yanã½klar creek feeding fethiye gulf; and (iii) how land-based fish farm influences yanã½klar creek water quality in a fethiye-gã¶cek specially protected ar...

a study was conducted to determine suitable soil properties as soil quality indicators, using factor analysis in order to evaluate the effects of land use change on loessial hillslope soils of the shastkola district in golestan province, northern iran. to this end, forty surface soil (0-30 cm) samples were collected from four adjacent sites with the following land uses systems: (1) natural fore...