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- Title
EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT OF THE LAND UTILIZATION IN THE REGIONS OF LATVIA.
- Authors
Mote, Georgs; Vanags, Jānis
- Abstract
In the process of land utilization management there is a necessity to regularly solve urgent contradiction. It arises by constantly increasing society needs on one hand and limitedness of existing land acreage that is at disposal of an individual, company, public or the state on the other hand. State economic development, increasing social needs of the society, science development and endless increase in number of inhabitants determine the necessity to intensify utilization of land used for agriculture and other economic activities. Augmentation of the intensification process of land utilization is related to the increase in the number and amount of deals in the real estate market that was caused by subjects of economic activities which became active under the influence of the state economic policy and due to Latvia's joining European Union. In the assessment of the efficiency of land utilization it is important to pay attention not only to the economically more active Riga city region but also to the rural regions in which large cities are not included. Therefore, within the framework of this paper the main attention is put on the differences of the efficiency of land utilization in the regions of Latvia.
- Subjects
LATVIA; LAND management; ECONOMIC development; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Geomatics, 2009, Issue 5, p83
- ISSN
1691-4341
- Publication type
Article