Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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GPS and property surveying [PDF]
In 2010 the Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the United States military was the best known Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Others included Russia’s GLONASS, China’s COMPASS and Europe’s GALILEO systems.
Drummond, J.
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Psycho-social factors influencing forest conservation intentions on the agricultural frontier [PDF]
Remnant forest fragments are critical to conserve biological diversity yet these are lost rapidly in areas under agricultural expansion. Conservation planning and policy require a deeper understanding of the psycho-social factors influencing landholders’
Ajzen +37 more
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Comprehensive Framework for the Assessment of Multi‐Level Pluvial Flood Risk
ABSTRACT Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to pluvial floods, a threat that is exacerbated by climate change and urbanisation. Current risk assessment methods often lack scalability and practical applicability across diverse urban contexts and varying capacities.
Murel Truu, Ivar Annus, Nils Kändler
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Towards Automated Cadastral Boundary Delineation from UAV Data
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are evolving as an alternative tool to acquire land tenure data. UAVs can capture geospatial data at high quality and resolution in a cost-effective, transparent and flexible manner, from which visible land parcel boundaries, i.e., cadastral boundaries are delineable.
Crommelinck, Sophie +5 more
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Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil
Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
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Integration of Geospatial Data into the Cadastre System
Abstract. Remote sensing serves as a fundamental tool for the creation and regular updating of cadastral maps. In the era of digital technologies, the integration of data obtained from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), satellites, and multispectral sensors significantly enhances the precision and efficiency of cadastral activities.
Allanazarov, Olimjon +3 more
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GEOPORTAL FOR SEARCHING AND VISUALIZATION OF CADASTRAL DATA
<jats:p>Geoportal is an indispensable part of the national spatial data infrastructure and a central point of access to spatial data. The paper presents the development of a geoportal based on the principles of service-oriented architecture. Open source frameworks and libraries were used to create geoportal.
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Assessing the Distributional Effects of Housing Taxation in Italy: From the Actual Tax Code to Imputed Rent [PDF]
The presence of extensive housing subsidies characterises the current tax systems as inefficient. In this paper, we study whether inefficiency is the price to be paid to improve equity, by assessing the actual distributive impact of housing taxation on ...
Gilberto Turati +2 more
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SURVEYING AND MAPPING STRATEGY FOR SUPPORTING THE EMERGING LAND MARKET IN ALBANIA [PDF]
Moving toward a market-oriented economy involves the development of various types of markets. One of the first steps of the transition in Albania has been the property privatization process, that is, the transformation of state property into private ...
Jazoj, Ahmet, Lamani, Spiro, Lira, Leart
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