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Land, Volume 9, Issue 11

November 2020 - 71 articles

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Cover Story: Maintenance of agricultural drainage ditches can be difficult to optimize if farmers have no guidelines on where to target their maintenance efforts. Unstable ditches can cause extensive sediment and nutrient transport as well as reduced drainage capacity. Methods are needed to assess whether ditch banks will experience soil erosion or mass movement. Cohesive and shear strength measurements showed that plant roots play an important role in reducing the rate of soil detachment and stabilizing ditch banks against mass movement. The conclusion is that native vegetation should be maintained on ditch banks, instead of being removed during maintenance work as is currently often the case. View this paper.

Articles (71)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,643 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2020

We set out to unveil gender inequality with respect to women’s access to family land following the surge in tree-planting in selected villages in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Specifically, the study describes land-transaction procedures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,565 Views
17 Pages

A GIS-Based Multicriteria Index to Evaluate the Mechanisability Potential of Italian Vineyard Area

  • Alessia Cogato,
  • Andrea Pezzuolo,
  • Claus Grøn Sørensen,
  • Roberta De Bei,
  • Marco Sozzi and
  • Francesco Marinello

22 November 2020

Planting criteria of new vineyards should comply with rational and sustainable criteria, taking into account the potential mechanisability of existing viticultural areas. However, an established methodology for this assessment is still lacking. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,699 Views
24 Pages

Assessing the Viability of Vacant Farmhouse Market in China: A Case Study in Sichuan

  • Qi Yin,
  • Jinfu Hu,
  • Zhanli Sun,
  • Dingde Xu,
  • Gideon Ntim-Amo and
  • Hong Tang

21 November 2020

Massive and rapid urbanization has led to population loss in rural areas, particularly in emerging and developing countries like China. As a result, houses in rural areas become vacant, and the house prices in cities, at the same time, skyrocket. Whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,595 Views
16 Pages

Developing a UML Model for the 3D Cadastre in Poland

  • Jarosław Bydłosz and
  • Agnieszka Bieda

20 November 2020

The UML model of a land and building cadastre is defined in current Polish legal regulations. Its main part is the UML application schema that defines relationships between the main cadastral objects in sixteen diagrams. These objects—cadastral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,472 Views
27 Pages

Urbanization Chaos of Suburban Small Cities in Poland: ‘Tetris Development’

  • Anna Majewska,
  • Małgorzata Denis and
  • Wioleta Krupowicz

19 November 2020

This paper investigates the phenomenon of spatial chaos in Poland resulting from urban sprawl. The phenomenon is particularly visible in the case of suburban small cities which, in contrast to cities in the EU-15 countries with similar populations, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,431 Views
26 Pages

The Contribution of Local Management to Biodiversity Conservation: An Analysis of Specific Cases in the Region of Madrid (Spain)

  • Pedro Molina-Holgado,
  • Nieves López-Estébanez,
  • Ana-Belén Berrocal-Menárguez,
  • Fernando Allende-Álvarez and
  • Miguel del Corro-Toro

19 November 2020

In line with the Urban Agenda for the EU, this article highlights the importance of local actions in the conservation of biodiversity, both through specific activities and by increasing the availability of information. As such, the policies and proje...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,981 Views
11 Pages

Retrospective Analysis of Permafrost Landscape Evolution in Yakutia during the Holocene Warm Intervals

  • Alexander N. Fedorov,
  • Varvara A. Novopriezzhaya,
  • Nikolay A. Fedorov,
  • Pavel Y. Konstantinov and
  • Vera V. Samsonova

19 November 2020

The observed global warming has significant impacts on permafrost. Permafrost changes modify landscapes and cause damage to infrastructure. The main purpose of this study was to estimate permafrost temperatures and active-layer thicknesses during the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,507 Views
25 Pages

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Restoration: A Stocktake

  • Priscilla Wainaina,
  • Peter A. Minang,
  • Eunice Gituku and
  • Lalisa Duguma

19 November 2020

With the increase in demand for landscape restoration and the limited resources available, there is need for economic analysis of landscape restoration to help prioritize investment of the resources. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a commonly applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,640 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2020

Allotment gardens are quite common in many European countries. In particular, they are an important part of the urban space in Central and Eastern Europe. They served to improve the inhabitants’ physical and mental well-being during the communi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,693 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2020

Agricultural intensification is considered essential for meeting growing demand for food and biomass for energy purposes. Intensifying grasslands is under-represented, although it is a promising option given their large land area and relatively low m...

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