Previous studies suggest that management intensity zoning systems, such as the triad approach, could allow Canada’s forest industry to maintain or increase timber harvest levels while simultaneously reducing its environmental impact. In most such studies, the zones are exogenously specified. In this study, we use a linear programming model to endogenously allocate forest land to management inte...

Floods represent one of the most severe natural disasters threatening development human society worldwide, including in Thailand. In recent decades, Chaiyaphum province has experienced a problem with flooding almost every year. particular, flood 2010 caused property damage 495 million Baht, more than 322,000 persons were affected, and approximately 1046.4 km2 productive agricultural area was af...

Space allocation of urban facilities is a critical field of decision making in urban planning. Supposing that Geographic Information (GI) provide us with more objective parameters for space allocation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is used by urban planners. But usage of GIS in urban planning is limited to simple analyses believing that complex spatial analyzes complicate the currently e...

A common application of raster-based geographic information systems (GIS) is as an aid in multi-criteria, multi-objective land-use decision problems. However, as the cell resolution increases by reducing cell size, the number of rows and columns in the raster representation also increases. The size of raster representations of land-use problems is often a determining factor in the type of metho...

ABSTRACT This paper describes the Active Response GIS (AR/GIS) for resource planning and land­ allocation deliberation. AR/GIS is an integrated system which combines GIS and electronic meeting software. This combination provides the voting, information organization, and brainstorming of an electronic meeting system, and supports interaction with geographic data sets. The AR/GIS system can impro...

unplanned urban development imposes significant pressure on land resources and land use structures and brings about many negative socio-economic and environmental consequences. therefore, comprehensive studies should be applied to support urban land use management in the world and especially in developing countries. in iran, like many other developing countries, urban development is fast and of...

Copyright 2007 by [Konrad Kellermann, Christoph Sahrbacher, Alfons Balmann]. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 2 Abstract. Land markets play a crucial role in agricultural structural change. The dynamics on land markets mainly depend on the interactions ...