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DECEMBER 2018

From oral agreement to distributed agreement: digital ledgers in land registration Mohsen Kalantari, Xueling Chen, Zhouyang Wang and Luan Nguyen | Geo-Information tools, governance, and wicked policy problems Yola Georgiadou and Diana Reckien | CORS usage for GPS survey in Greater Accra region: Advantages, limitation and suggested remedies Sebastian Botsyo, Bernard Borketey Bortei and John Ayer | Spatial heterogeneity, scale, data character, and sustainable transport in the big data era Bin Jiang | New trends in development of agricultural land consolidation in the Russian Federation Alexander Sagaydak and Anna Sagaydak

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LAND ADMINISTRATION

From oral agreement to distributed agreement: digital ledgers in land registration
Mohsen Kalantari,Xueling Chen,Zhouyang Wang and Luan Nguyen
This article conceptualises the application of digital ledgers in land administration by addressing some fundamental questions. The article first discusses what digital ledgers are and how they are relevant to land administration. It then expands on how digital ledgers could improve land administration. It concludes with elaborating on some technical challenges in adopting digital ledgers in land administration... [more]

BIG DATA

Spatial heterogeneity, scale, data character and sustainable transport in the big data era
Bin Jiang
This paper attempts to clarify why the paradigm shift is essential and to elaborate on several concepts, including spatial heterogeneity (or scaling law), scale (or the fourth meaning of scale), data character (in contrast to data quality), and sustainable transport in the big data era... [more]

POLICY

Geo-information tools, governance, and wicked policy problems
Yola Georgiadou and Diana Reckon
We have shown that the mainstream view of geo-information tools as contributing to collection, analysis, and dissemination of data may not be so productive when we deal with wicked policy problems. The contributions to the Special Issue show that an alternative view of geo-information tools as problem recognizers, as problem analysts and advocates, as mediators, and as problem solvers is more appropriate... [more]

AGRICULTURE

New trends in development of agricultural land consolidation
Alexander SAGAYDAK and Anna SAGAYDAK
Increasing the efficiency of agricultural production; providing sustainable development of agrarian sector; rational use of land, labor and capital in agriculture; optimization of agricultural production structures both in territorial and production aspects... [more]