Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are often addressed both in theories for urban development and in dynamic models of (urban) land use change. Neighbourhood interactions are one of the main driving factors in a large group of land use ch...

Land surface characteristics play a critical role in the evolution of the planetary boundary layer of the atmosphere. Several key components of the land surface that significantly affect surface sensible heat and moisture fluxes include soil temperature and moisture, fractional vegetation coverage (σf ), and green leaf area index (LAI). The lack of observational data for accurate specification ...

Ecosystem services are being protected and restored worldwide through payments for ecosystem services in which participants are paid to alter their land-management approaches to benefit the environment. The efficiency of such investments depends on the design of the payment scheme. Land features have been used to measure the environmental benefits of and amount of payment for land enrollment in...

The ability to incorporate and manage the different drivers of land-use change in a modeling process is one of the key challenges because they are complex and are both quantitative and qualitative in nature. This paper uses Bayesian belief networks (BBN) to incorporate characteristics of land managers in the modeling process and to enhance our understanding of land-use change based on the limit...

Under the premise that land administration is one of the necessary components of sustainable development and better land management, this article reviews how progressive titling could foster new land administration procedures and associated information systems. This review is based on the objectives of progressive titling as they are developed or currently implemented in various regions in the ...

land evaluation is the process of predicting the land use potential on the basis of its attributes. at the present study the qualitative land suitability evaluation was investigated for specific cereal crops including irrigated wheat (triticum aestivum l.), mays (zea mays l.) and cotton (gossypium herbaceum l.), based on fao land evaluation frame works (1976, 1983 and1985), climatic and soil re...

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