Measuring Landscapes

Author : Andre Botequilha Leitao
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267724
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Landscapes written by Andre Botequilha Leitao and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound habitats. Until now, only a small portion of the relevant science has influenced the decision-making arenas where the future of our landscapes is debated and decided. The authors explain specific tools and concepts to measure a landscape's structure, form, and change over time. Metrics studied include patch richness, class area proportion, patch number and density, mean patch size, shape, radius of gyration, contagion, edge contrast, nearest neighbor distance, and proximity. These measures will help planners and conservationists make better land use decisions for the future.

Author : Devin L. Galloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Land Subsidence from Space written by Devin L. Galloway and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abate, Gashaw Tadesse
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? written by Abate, Gashaw Tadesse and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of rural land rental markets in Sub-Saharan Africa is recognized as a key component of the region’s ongoing economic transformation. However, the evidence base on land market participation relies on survey-derived measures, which do not always cohere when compared and triangulated, suggesting the possibility of non-trivial measurement error. We report the results of a priming and list experiments designed to shed light on a persistent mystery in rural household survey data from Africa: why there are so many fewer self-reported landlords (renters-out) than tenants (renters-in)? Our design addresses two hypotheses using experimental data from Ethiopia. First, rented-out and rented-in land may be systematically underreported because enumerators and respondents are typically primed to emphasize parcels that are actively managed/cultivated by the household. Second, rented or sharecropped-out land may be systematically underreported because of respondents’ reluctance to acknowledge an activity for which public disclosure may have negative repercussions. We address the first hypothesis with a priming experiment by exposing a random subset of respondents to a nudge that explicitly reminded them to fully account for all land, including rented/sharecropped-in and rented/sharecropped-out. We address the second hypothesis with a double-list experiment, designed to elicit true rates of land renting and sharecropping-out. We find that nudging induces about 4 percentage points increase (or 13% in relative terms) in the share of households participating in renting in or sharecropping-in practices but has negligible effects on reported rates of renting and sharecropping-out. Interestingly, our list experiment indicates much higher revealed rates of renting-out (14-15%) than is reflected in the nominal parcel-roster responses (3%). The magnitude of the latter finding fully explains the apparent difference in renting in versus renting-out rates derived from the regular parcel roster responses. These results indicate that efforts to document land market participation rate and associated impacts must overcome large systematic reporting biases.

Author : James Corner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300086962
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Measures Across the American Landscape written by James Corner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.

Author : John Love
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geodæsia: Or, The Art of Surveying and Measuring Land Made Easy written by John Love and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John LOVE (Land Surveyor.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geodæsia: or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy ... The eleventh edition, corrected and improved written by John LOVE (Land Surveyor.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. B. Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981167731X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Policy Decision Support written by R. B. Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers. Remote sensing and GIS-based policy decision support systems not only help them to solve spatially related environmental and socio-economic issues; they also provide a powerful tool for integrating spatial and non-spatial datasets with analytical and spatial models and knowledge domains. Recent advances in the modern spatial tools of remote sensing and GIS combined with advanced computation techniques have enhanced the efficiency and capabilities of policy development. This book expands the scientific knowledge base in various physical and socio-economic issues among scholars, planners, and decision makers for policy development and research regarding sustainable development. It also demonstrates the importance of modern spatial decision support tools of remote sensing and GIS to better understand sustainable development processes and policy development. Furthermore, the book discusses case studies providing new insights as to how remote sensing and GIS-based decision support systems contribute to understanding physical and socio-economic processes and developing pragmatic policy for sustainable development. This book covers land surface temperature, hydrological processes, terrain mapping, flood and landslide hazards, land use and land cover dynamics, crime hotspots, urban health issues, tourism, agriculture, forest management, flood mitigation, urban sprawl, and village information systems, among others. Readers will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving diverse physical and human issues for policy development related to sustainable planning and management.

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry C. Daniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Measuring Landscape Esthetics written by Terry C. Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logarithmic Land-measurement written by J. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: