The Swedish agricultural landscape has changed dramatically since 1945. Agricultural land has been abandoned and the general trend has been towards less scenic and biological variety. People express a relatively high willingness to pay for preservation of agricultural landscape in contingent...

ZONED IN THE USA -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An American Model of Land-Use Control -- 1. America's Housing Trademark -- 2. How the System Works -- 3. How Others Do It -- 4. Roots -- 5. American Beginnings in a Comparative Context -- 6. The Formative Years of American Zoning...

Intro -- Title page -- Table of content -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Natural Land -- 2 Profiles -- Part II Degraded Land -- 3 Functions -- 4 Properties -- 5 Erosion -- 6 Chemical degradation -- 7 Physical degradation -- Part III Remediating Land -- 8 Investigation -- 9 Remediation --...

Comprises a full critical appraisal of policies and plans for countryside recreation, and proposes, in the context of rural restructuring as a whole, a range of new directions for policy that will better serve the needs of both the public and the countryside to the turn of the 20th century

Lack of transparency and accountability in the planning practice allow for misuse and abuse of the planning system to serve the interests of the more powerful and influential groups, including those entrusted with the powers of planning. The outcomes of a non-inclusive, non-transparent and...

The paper presents a global model for understanding land administration systems in support of sustainable development. The evolution of these systems is presented as a response to the dynamic relation between humankind and land. The Nordic evolution is described with a focus that any land...

One of the major impediments to urban renewal in Hong Kong is the acquisition of land from different owners in order to form adequate parcels for development. Compulsory purchase powers are not available to the private sector as only public authorities can properly exercise powers over...

This paper addresses the practical problem of apportioning the value of land equitably between joint owners of developed property in China in a logical way. Allocation of land share by existing methods causes unfairness. A new concept, using the ratio of land floor value, is introduced and an...

Presents a discussion of water policies and their influence on land uses and land values, based on empirical data collected from within a proclaimed region in South Australia. Two surveys have been carried out. First, a questionnaire was sent to all 136 licence holders in the proclaimed region,...

Explains that the 1993 Department of Environment Survey of Derelict Land in England found that the area of derelict land in England between 1988 and 1993 remained relatively static, despite the considerable sums of public money spent on derelict land reclamation during this period. With the...