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Re-Thinking the Role of Compensation in Urban Land Acquisition: Empirical Evidence from South Asia

Johnson, Craig; Chakravarty, Arpana - In: Land 2 (2013) 2, pp. 278-303

Planned efforts to relocate human populations often entail protracted struggles over the terms on which local populations may be compensated for the loss of land, assets and livelihoods. In many instances, compensation has been established on the basis of historical market value, which in effect...

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Urbanity and Urbanization: An Interdisciplinary Review Combining Cultural and Physical Approaches

Schneider, Christoph; Achilles, Bianca; Merbitz, Hendrik - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 105-130

This review paper focuses on research schemes regarding urbanity and urbanization, and brings together both cultural … and physical approaches. First, we review the cultural and social construction of urbanity (as related to urbanization) in … urban studies, including urban-rural linkages. A newly constituted assessment of urbanization and city quarter development …

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Development of Future Land Cover Change Scenarios in the Metropolitan Fringe, Oregon, U.S., with Stakeholder Involvement

Hoyer, Robert W.; Chang, Heejun - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 322-341

gradient of increased urbanization. The effort attempted to create a simple and transparent modeling framework that is easy to …

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Rural-Urban Transition in Central Java: Population and Economic Structural Changes Based on Cluster Analysis

Handayani, Wiwandari - In: Land 2 (2013) 3, pp. 419-436

In Central Java, in addition to the traditional view of urban transition as an aspect of urban industrialization, rural industrialization based on small- to medium-sized enterprises has become a concern, at least since the Indonesian economic crisis in 1997. Combinations of typical urban and...

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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Contexts of Vegetative Cover in Altamira City, Brazil

Hetrick, Scott; Chowdhury, Rinku Roy; Brondizio, Eduardo; … - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 774-796

, time since urbanization and better infrastructure, and appears linked to housing tenure. Studies of vegetative outcomes in …

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Globalland30 Mapping Capacity of Land Surface Water in Thessaly, Greece

Manakos, Ioannis; Chatzopoulos-Vouzoglanis, Konstantinos; … - In: Land 4 (2014) 1, pp. 1-18

The National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC) produced Global Land Cover (GlobalLand30) maps with 30 m spatial resolution for the years 2000 and 2009–2010, responding to the need for harmonized, accurate, and high-resolution global land cover data. This study aims to assess the mapping...

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Landcover Change, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo and Topography in the Plateau Region of North-Central Nigeria

Odunuga, Shakirudeen; Badru, Gbolahan - In: Land 4 (2015) 2, pp. 300-324

area, the built up landcover occupied 32.95% in 1986 and 39.01% in 2014. Urbanization and agricultural activities …

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Building Bridges across Sectors and Scales: Exploring Systemic Solutions towards A Sustainable Management of Land —Experiences from 4th Year Status Conference on Research for Sustainable Land Management

Repp, Annegret; Weith, Thomas - In: Land 4 (2015) 2, pp. 325-336

Interacting land use demands and competing interests originating from fields such as agriculture, housing, mobility and nature conservation call for integrated governance approaches that incorporate disciplinary perspectives and arbitrate between them. The German research program “Sustainable...

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Monitoring 60 Years of Land Cover Change in the Marathon Area, Greece

Gaitanis, Apostolos; Kalogeropoulos, Kleomenis; Detsis, … - In: Land 4 (2015) 2, pp. 337-354

This study deals with the landscape evolution reflected in the changes of land cover in the suburban area of Marathon, Attica, Greece. The study was based on remote sensing images covering the time period between 1945 and 2007. Several other types of data were also used, such as a digital...

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Patterns of Tree Distribution within Small Communities of the Sudanian Savanna-Sahel

Sterling, Sarah J.; Orr, Blair - In: Land 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1284-1292

decreased while crown diameter increased. Distance from the community center is a proxy for age since urbanization and our …

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