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Development of a Land Use Carbon Inventory for Agricultural Soils in the Canadian Province of Ontario

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
France, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, Australia, New Zealand
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
land management
Globally, agricultural soils are being evaluated for their role in climate change regulation as a potential sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through sequestration of organic carbon as soil organic matter. Scientists and policy analysts increasingly seek to develop programs and policies which recognize the importance of mitigation of climate change and insurance of ecological sustainability when managing agricultural soils.
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A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf

Reports & Research
May, 2022
China, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, United Kingdom
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
deforestation
land use
agriculture
encroachment
land investments

This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022.

Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.
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List of Bibliographic References: A Story about Maize

Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf

Reports & Research
May, 2022
China, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, United Kingdom
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
deforestation
land use
agriculture
encroachment
land investments

This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the data story written by Daniel Hayward and published by the Land Portal on 12 May 2022.
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Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
China, Italy, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land-use planning
research
The land topic has generally become a major socioeconomic issue that currently attracts attention globally. To explore the issue, various countries devote much attention to land use planning. This paper searches the Core Collection of the Web of Science and collects 1771 land use planning articles published between 1990 and 2019. The R software, biblioshiny package, and CiteSpace are applied in this paper.
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Informal Land Rights and Infrastructure Retrofit: A Typology of Land Rights in Informal Settlements

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Indonesia, Norway
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
informal settlements
infrastructure
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Informal settlements represent a challenging operational context for local government service providers due to precarious contextual conditions. Location choice and land procurement for public infrastructure raise the complicated question: who has the right to occupy, control, and use a piece of land in informal settlements? There is currently a dearth of intelligence on how to identify well-located land for public infrastructure, spatially and with careful consideration for safeguarding the claimed rights and preventing conflicts.
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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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Multielement Contamination of Land in the Margin of Highways

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Bahamas, China, Greece, Norway, Holy See
land
research
The spatial distribution of potentially toxic elements in land near a heavily loaded highway in the West Attica region (Greece) is discussed. This study aimed to investigate the extent of soil contamination with trace elements on land in the margin of highways. The concentration of thirty-five elements in topsoil, car ash, and road sediment bulk samples was determined. Statistical and spatial analysis was applied for evaluating the geochemical dispersion of the examined elements. Geo-accumulation index was estimated.
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Changes in Soil Features and Phytomass during Vegetation Succession in Sandy Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, United Kingdom, United States of America, Holy See
land
research
This research was conducted on an area of inland sands characterised by various degrees of overgrowth by vegetation and soil stabilisation. This landscape’s origin is not natural but is connected to human industrial activities dating from early medieval times, which created a powerful centre for mining and metallurgy. This study aims to identify the changes in the above- and belowground phytomass in the initial stages of succession and their influence on the chemical properties and morphology of the soil.
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Spatial–Temporal Characteristics of Precipitation and Its Relationship with Land Use/Cover Change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
China, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an area sensitive to global climate change, and land use/land cover change (LUCC) plays a vital role in regulating climate system at different temporal and spatial scales. In this study, we analyzed the temporal and spatial trend of precipitation and the characteristics of LUCC on the QTP. Meanwhile, we also used the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as an indicator of LUCC to discuss the relationship between LUCC and precipitation.
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Identification of Property Boundaries Using an IFC-Based Cadastral Database

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta, Malaysia, Panama, Romania, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
boundaries
property
Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of the ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides the potential capabilities for modelling property boundaries in a 3D environment. In some jurisdictions, such as Victoria, Australia, some property boundaries are assigned to the faces of building elements which are modelled as solids in IFC. In order to retrieve these property boundaries, boundary identification analysis should be performed, and faces of building elements should be extracted.