As the oil demand continues to surge ahead and production continues to decline, it is believed that oil prices will continue to rise to unprecedented levels. As a reference, in 2004, the crude oil price was averaging $41 per barrel while it is above $130 in today?s market. This oil price...

Land use and cover change are very complex phenomena, based on relationships among environmental, social and economic factors. Moreover, its analysis could be highly valuable for predicting the effects of land use change and for planning a policy intervention able to steer agricultural...

This contribution discusses the problemof providing measures of significance ofprediction results when the predictionswere generated from spatial databases forlandslide hazard mapping. The spatialdatabases usually contain map informationon lithologic units, land-cover units,topographic elevation...