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.

To prevent uncontrolled urban sprawl of rural area and promote desirable development, Korean government established 'Act on Planning and Use of National Territory' in 2003. However, despite improvement of the framework of land use system, urban sprawl and rural environment destruction is aggravating. Unlike Japan, there is no independent plan for managing farmland and forest in Korea. Local governments' land use plan also excessively focused on urban management. To prevent deteriorating rural amenity, it is desirable to induce more specific guideline for rural land use and development.

Modern agriculture development possibilities are highly dependent on many factors, including those which are related to the parameters of land spatial structure (including parcels fragmentation and parameters related to their shape). In particular, unfavourable shape of parcels in combination with their small sizes is the most common reason for non-profitability of agricultural production. It is one of the major causes of land abandonment. South Poland is the area of high diversification in terms of the landform, soil quality and spatial structure parameters.