By 2050, 90% of the population in Latin America will live in cities, but there is a lack of up-to-date spatial information about the urban extent and patterns of urbanization in cities of this region.

This study examines whether there is a biodiversity benefit (“dividend”) associated with the existence and management of conservation reserves in the extensive and largely natural landscape of northern Australia.

Future forest cover changes were simulated under the business-as-usual (BAU), pessimistic and optimistic scenarios using the Markov-cellular automata (MCA) model in Pakxeng district, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR).

Water is both a key and limited resource in the Okavango Catchment of Southern Africa. It is vital for the ecosystem and the three riparian states Angola, Botswana and Namibia who use the water of the catchment for multiple purposes including pastoralism, farming and tourism.

The article highlights the benefits of adopting the practice of long-term planning with the aim of helping decision makers and politicians to include scenario thinking in the process of determining food security in Israel, 2050.

The article reviews changing land use relations in India and calls for a comprehensive land use policy. 

Sacred sites are of conservation value because of their spiritual meaning, as cultural heritage and as remnants of
near-natural biotopes in landscapes strongly transformed by man. The vegetation of sacred sites in Morocco was
studied recently. Information about their number, spatial pattern or relief position is fragmentary. However, these

Spatial planning is connected with speculations in real estate market, which deepens the process of urban sprawl. Adequate land management supporting free market – both investment decision of businesses and location decisions of households – is necessary if amorphous city growth is to be prevented.

Áreas portuárias são alvos comuns de investimentos para reestruturação de paisagens, como estratégia de recuperar e valorizar o espaço. Este artigo considera o Complexo Cultural Estação das Docas, formulado a partir de um projeto de revitalização do antigo porto de Belém/PA. O objetivo é analisar suas repercussões turísticas e socioculturais.

Este artigo trata dos resultados parciais do estudo que tem como objeto monitorar e avaliar os serviços turísticos da cidade de Cuiabá MT pactuadas na Matriz de Responsabilidade, projetos e especificações técnicas exigidas pela da Federation Internationale de Football Association – FIFA, para realização do Megaevento da Copa do Mundo 2014.

A Semana Farroupilha foi instituída por lei estadual para incentivar a memória em torno da Revolução Farroupilha. Hoje, esse evento recebe o nome de Festejos Farroupilhas. A escolha do tema para à presente investigação deve-se às proporções que o evento Festejos Farroupilhas apresentou nos últimos anos.

Housing prices in the Lyon Urban Area are simulated with the land use framework UrbanSim interacting with transportation model. We focus on the Real Estate Price Model of the UrbanSim framework. This OLS regression model of housing prices is calibrated using a nine-year back-casting period.