The current state was studied and main trends of land use development under the influence of changing climate and anthropogenous influence were revealed. The spatial structure, direction and features of regional development of agricultural production in new market conditions of Russia and Kazakhstan was estimated. Creation of agroforestal complexes which have to become a necessary component when forming the profitable country farms located discretely in primordially treeless territories and applying resource-saving technologies was offered for its optimization.

The planning approach to prevailing small hydropower is still to be established. The varying characteristics of hydropower products such as type, color and shape may affect regional landscape characteristics. The objective of this study is to recognize the impact of potential landscape change by prevailing small hydropower in hilly and mountainous regions that are advantaged in water resources and natural landscape. The study areas were the Minamioguni Town and Itsuki Village in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Integrated water resources management is a combination of managing blue and green water resources. Often the main focus is on the blue water resources, as information on spatially distributed evaporative water use is not as readily available as the link to river flows. Physically based, spatially distributed models are often used to generate this kind of information. These models require enormous amounts of data, which can result in equifinality, making them less suitable for scenario analyses.

The article presents the analysis of the change of land users in the Republic of Lithuania during the period between 1919 and 1940. The main factor affecting the relationship of land and its use was the political changes in the country, whereas economic and social aspects had less influence.

O presente trabalho apresenta o mapeamento e a quantificação do uso eocupação da terra da Unidade de Gerenciamento de Recursos Hídricos − UGRHI da Mantiqueira, resultado da interpretação de ortofotos digitais (ano 2003) estruturadas em ambiente de Sistema de Informações Geográficas − SIG.

Preceding studies demonstrate that there are two important prerequisites that facilitate land rental in agriculture; one is outmigration of farm labor, and the other is the securement of farmers' land rights. This is especially true for the counties and/or regions where the farm sector is overemployed and farmland has yet to be privatized. Considering these empirical findings quite tenable, this paper pays special attention to rural shareholding cooperatives (RSCs) that have been established recently in rural China.

To assess the land use effects on soil micronutrients, this study examined the profile variation and storage of DTPA- extractable iron, manganese, copper and zinc at the depth of 0-150 cm of an aquic brown soil under four land use patterns, i.e. paddy, maize, and fallow fields and woodland, over 14 years in an ecological experimental station of northeastern China. Our results show that land use, soil depth, and their interactions significantly influenced micronutrient concentrations. Micronutrients concentrations decreased with soil depth.

30 pp. Maps, charts, tables. Published October 30, 2001. Captured February 19, 2009.