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STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF LAND-USE, URBANIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE INTENSITY IN MOUNTAINS: EVIDENCES FROM JAMMU & KASHMIR-INDIA

Reports & Research
January, 2015
India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Pakistan
Urban Tenure
agriculture
urbanization
This study investigates dynamics of land-use shifts, agricultural land-use, and its intensity in relation with urbanization and other factors in Jammu & Kashmir, a mountainous state of India. Results revealed an unfavourable increasing trend in the undesirable ecology class (barren) and declining trend in desirable land-use (forests, pastures and miscellaneous trees) which are likely to have serious long-term ecological implications. Inter-sectoral budgeting analysis revealed that shifts in land are occurring from desirable towards undesirable ecological sector.
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Trade-offs between high class land and development: Recent and future pressures on Auckland's valuable soil resources

Land Use Policy Volume 39

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2014
New Zealand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
urbanization
Sustainable land management is essential to meeting the global challenge of securing soil and water resources that can support an ever increasing population. In Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, population growth is forecast to increase from 1.5 to 2.5 million by 2040 which will put immense pressure on the region's soil resources.
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Determination and prediction of agricultural land prices using hedonic prices model: an application

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2014
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Land & Investments
infrastructure
agricultural land management
agriculture
land markets
property
This article aims specific markets agricultural land prices determination and forecast using hedonic prices methodology. The absence of official or trustworthy information on land prices makes this very important in Brazil. This multiple regression model has as dependent variable the price per hectare and the next explanatory variables: physical attributes (soil, relief), production (systems of production, localization, access), and infrastructure of the property and expectations (regional situation, local investments).
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The state of poverty and food insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho

Urban Food Security Series Number 21

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Lesotho
Land & Food Security
food security
urban planning
urbanization
Lesotho regularly features in the African and international media as a country blighted by drought, hunger and food insecurity. Much of the discussion about the causes and remedies for food insecurity, including within Lesotho itself, focuses on the rural population and the precipitous decline in domestic food production in recent decades. This report argues that the rural bias of both donors and government ignores the fact that poverty and food insecurity are increasingly important urban issues as well.
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Hydrological impacts of urbanization of two catchments in Harare, Zimbabwe

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Zimbabwe
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
urbanization
deforestation
water management
land cover
By increased rural-urban migration in many African countries, the assessment of changes in catchment hydrologic responses due to urbanization is critical for water resource planning and management. This paper assesses hydrological impacts of urbanization on two medium-sized Zimbabwean catchments (Mukuvisi and Marimba) for which changes in land cover by urbanization were determined through Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images for the years 1986, 1994 and 2008. Impact assessments were done through hydrological modeling by a topographically driven rainfall-runoff model (TOPMODEL).
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Agricultural landscape changes and its resilience in response to the 2011 serious floods in the urban fringe of Bangkok

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2014
Thailand
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land policies
land-use planning
land use
land economics
urbanization
natural disasters
Using Bangmaenang District in the urban fringe of Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand as a case study area, this study aims at examining agricultural land-use changes after the 2011 Floods with special focus on farmers' intentions of orchard use and management. Supervised image classifications were conducted for two GeoEye-1 images (before and after the floods) in order to identify agricultural land-cover changes by the floods.
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Review of Selected Land Laws and the Governance of Tenure in the Philippines

Discussion Paper in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2014
Philippines
VGGT
land administration
land governance
expropriation
land law
land policies
land reform
urbanization
environment
natural disasters
rural areas
urban areas
land markets
land acquisitions
compensation
land investments
eviction
land dispute
land tenure
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land tenure systems
Indigenous Peoples
The Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), was developed under the Committee on World Food Security as a result of collaboration among different groups of stakeholders – governments, civil society, private sector, academia. The VGGT is intended to provide a framework for responsible tenure governance that supports food security, poverty alleviation, sustainable resource use and environmental protection.
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of farmland protection policy in China

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Eastern Asia, Asia, China
Urban Tenure
farmland
urbanization
urban areas
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Proceso de expansión urbana, actores y desigualdades

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2014
Argentina
Urban Tenure
urbanization
Este artículo busca analizar el proceso de expansión urbana de la ciudad de San Carlos de Bariloche, desde un enfoque de la especialidad y la temporalidad, con miras a comprender, desde sus lógicas de crecimiento, el actual contexto de profunda desigualdad urbana. Los distintos actores hegemónicos, los cuales fueron cambiando a lo largo del tiempo, han marcado el pulso de la urbanización, la expansión del ejido municipal y la aprobación de los loteos que contribuyeron a un crecimiento acelerado, descontrolado y especulativo.
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El modelo de gestión del Régimen Jurídico de la Propiedad de la Tierra en las comunas del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Ecuador
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land ownership
El presente trabajo académico de investigación trata sobre el reconocimiento constitucional de la propiedad de los territorios comunales ancestrales existentes en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito en relación con la problemática del ordenamiento y control urbanístico debido a que históricamente han estado excluidos de los modelos de gestión territorial por reunir unas características distintas al modelo de propiedad individual.