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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Land-Use Evaluation"”.
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Integrating Fiscal-Spatial Analysis in Data-Driven Land-Use Evaluation
This thesis introduces the Land Use Fitness Index (LUFI), a new index to evaluate land-use plans by integrating spatial characteristics with fiscal outcomes. Airdrie, Alberta is used as a case study to demonstrate how LUFI can diagnose the fiscal stability of rapidly growing suburban …
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Pollutant Monitoring of Effluent Credit Trading Programs For Agricultural Nonpoint Source Control
… to the Commonwealth of Virginia that can be used in a trading program of its own. The study shows that the majority of existing effluent credit trading programs use watershed models and land use evaluation algorithms to indirectly monitor nonpoint source pollutant discharges on a watershed …
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Ecosystem services provided by agricultural land as modeled by broad scale geospatial analysis
… of ecosystem services provided by agricultural land, using existing geospatial tools and preferably free and open source data, such as the Virginia Land Use Evaluation System (VALUES), the North Carolina Realistic Yield Expectations (RYE) database, and the land cover datasets NLCD and CDL. …
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Land use analysis for agroforestry research and development: a case study for Luwero district in Uganda
A land use evaluation in Luwero district of Uganda was undertaken as the primary stage in planning for appropriate agroforestry research and development. Published information sources, personal interviews, discussions with key informants and a survey of 50 randomly selected households across the …