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Capitalizing flood risk protective measures in residential real estate

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study utilizes 1.4 million residential transactions incorporating flood hazard estimates derived from a nationwide elevation model and hydrological data to examine the role of flood protections to mitigate the negative impact of flood risk on home prices.
Muhammad Ramzan Kalhoro, Arne Johan Pollestad, Michael J. Seiler, Ole Jakob Sønstebø   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cadastre of values and income: some considerations [PDF]

, 2013
The article intends to verify the logical and methodological framework of a cadastre of values, based on the market prices, in addition to cadastre of incomes, as provided by the reform guidelines which have been discussed by some time in the Italian ...
Gianni Guerrieri
core   +1 more source

Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri, Aditya Dasgupta, Devesh Kapur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The global cadastre

, 2013
The article discusses whether a globally connected cadastre is possible. Most land transactions occur in domestic, national land markets. However, many parties are now looking beyond their borders.
Bennett, Rohan, Molen, Paul van der, McDougall, Kevin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A Survey of Methods for Constructing 3D Urban Models From Point Clouds

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
The survey outlines a general process for constructing 3D models from point clouds and categorizes the methods based on their use of templates, basic surface primitives, hybrid approaches, or linear primitives. Additionally, the survey reviews the datasets and benchmarks that are essential for testing and training the developed methods.
Chiara Romanengo, Silvia Biasotti, Bianca Falcidieno, Daniela Cabiddu, Elia Moscoso Thompson, Michela Spagnuolo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Evaluation of the New Control Center and Receiver Hardware for the CORS-TR System [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
A Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) GNSS network is crucial for providing regional positioning services capable of delivering highly accurate, purpose-specific positioning.
M. Aydın, M. Soylu, E. Ayyıldız
doaj   +1 more source

Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

The Long Arc of Forest Land Dispossession and Degradation—Firm and State Actions on Sámi Lands in the Wood‐Based Commodity Frontier in Northern Sweden, 1673–1955

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective well-being and objective living conditions: a dual approach to measuring sustainability in cities

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study addresses the gap between formal statistical indicators of development and residents’ perceptions of quality of life amid socio-economic transformation.
Damira Tazhiyeva, Gulnara Nyussupova, Laura Kenespayeva, Gaukhar Kairanbayeva, Roza Kelinbayeva, Gaukhar Aidarkhanova, Gaukhar Aubakirova, Abzal Zhakypbek, Chingiz Zhumagulov   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source