En este artículo se aborda la caracterización ecológica del paisaje de dos Parques Naturales fronterizos: Arribes del Duero (Salamanca, España) y Douro Internacional (Portugal). El trabajo se basa en el método de análisis desarrollado en SISPARES (Sistema de Monitorización de los Paisajes Rurales Españoles) tratándose de una aplicación específica al estudio de espacios fronterizos. Mediante tecnología SIG se fotointerpretaron los tipos de uso y cubierta de unas cuadrículas territoriales previamente seleccionadas.

In this study, Land Capability Classification (LCC) and Suitability Classification for Irrigated Agriculture (SCIC) were conducted for Aksu-Mand�rlar Research and Application Area (Antalya) that belong to Akdeniz University.

Bu �al��mada, Akdeniz �niversitesi Aksu-Mand�rlar Ara�t�rma ve Uygulama Arazilerinin ideal kullan�mlar�n�n sa�lanmas� i�in Arazi Yetenek S�n�flamas� (AYS) ile Sulu Tar�ma Uygunluk S�n�flamas� (STUS) yap�lm��t�r.

Rural places acquire value in different ways and geographers have adopted a range of approaches to understand the way value is created in land and place. This paper analyses the case of the Gimblett Gravels wine district in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. This district has been transformed over the space of 20 years from a peri-urban wasteland to, now, one of the most sought-after and expensive winegrowing areas in the country. In this process of revaluation, several forces were evident.

The article details the basic features of the development and functioning of a peasant (farmer's) economy, as the subject ofcompetitive market relations, analyzed the interdependence of land, labor and material resources, and their impact on thedetermination of the optimal size of the land.

This paper examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in China's agriculture. In developing agriculture where there is a broad range of farm sizes, farm size and productivity or output per unit of land are often found to be inversely related. In China, where average farm size is small and the distribution of farm sizes is relatively compact, farm size and productivity are weakly inversely related.