Land reforms may be categorised broadly as either redistributive reforms, which change the patterns of land distribution and occupation, or land tenure reforms, which change tenurial relations between land owners and users without necessarily altering land distribution. ii In sub-Saharan Africa the principal approaches have been tenure reform through the introduction of individual leasehold or ...

Landownership is an important form of wealth, especially in a natural-resource dependent region such as the Black Belt of Alabama. We examine the connection between property ownership, land cover, and the wellbeing of communities in Macon County, Alabama. This study is an exploratory application of geographic information systems to integrate information from property tax assessment records, lan...

Since 1980 there has been an increasing interest, both commercially and academically, in the development of spatio-temporal data models. Such data models are designed not only to facilitate information extraction about data objects and the relationships between these objects but also to support the analysis of data in a time series from varying perspectives. We will design a spatio-temporal dat...

A preliminary evaluation of the urban land system is presented in the article together with the instruments of land policy in Serbia. The main reason for the analysis is demand for definition of reform framework for urban land management in Serbia in the period of transition towards market-led system. It is concluded that due to the limitations of the current regulation it will be impossible in...

the analyze of the petroleum contract determines that the ownership of the oil and gas filed is one of the very fundamental issues in the petroleum contract not only for the host country in the middle east but also for the petroleum companies. but the analyze of the petroleum contracts from the ownership perspective may show that the hybrid nature of this ownership rights, one from private law ...

Auto ownership is a critical mediating link in the connection between the built environment and travel behavior: the built environment presumably influences auto ownership, which in turn impacts travel behavior. However, the way in which individual elements of the built environment affect auto-ownership choices is far from understood. Further, residential self-selection may confound the interac...