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The AFRIGIST Journal of Land Administration and Environmental Management (AJLAEM) is an International double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published quarterly (March, June, September and December) in English and French, by the African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
AJLAEM exists to advance the understanding and practice of land administration and environmental management, particularly in Africa and other developing regions. It publishes theoretical, methodological and applied research on land tenure and governance, cadastral and land information systems, land-use and spatial planning, environmental assessment and monitoring, climate change, natural resource management and disaster risk — and it looks for work that leads somewhere: towards responsible land governance, environmental stewardship, evidence-based planning and more resilient communities.
The journal is deliberately interdisciplinary. Who holds land, how a forest is shared, why a city loses its green cover and where fire strikes a market are at once questions of law, administration, environment and society, and AJLAEM brings those perspectives together. Since its first volume in 2021 it has carried work from Nigeria, Benin and Niger, and it welcomes contributions from researchers and practitioners anywhere.
As a journal of AFRIGIST, AJLAEM particularly encourages research that applies modern geospatial technologies to land and environmental problems: geographic information systems, remote sensing and Earth observation, satellite positioning, spatial databases, unmanned aerial vehicles, machine learning and web-based land information systems.
AFRIGIST serves English- and French-speaking Africa alike, and AJLAEM publishes in both languages. Manuscripts are accepted in English or French, and every article carries its abstract in both, so that research done in one language community is found and read in the other.
AFRIGIST also publishes the Journal of Geospatial Science and Technology (JGST). Where a paper's main contribution is to geospatial methods, sensors or analysis rather than to how land and the environment are managed, it will usually be better placed there.
Everything AJLAEM publishes is free to read, download and share from the day it appears, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence. There is no subscription and no paywall.
The subject areas we cover and the manuscripts that fall outside our remit are set out on the Aims & Scope page. Submissions are made through this website, and the Author Guidelines carry everything an author needs: manuscript preparation, referencing, how review works, fees, ethics and copyright. Published work is in the Archives.
Rapid urban expansion and inadequate waste management in northern Nigerian cities have increased open dumping and burning of waste. This is contributing significantly to air pollution and related health risks in the region. This study assessed the impact of waste disposal sites on air quality in Sok...
L'urbanisation rapide des villes d'Afrique subsaharienne a intensifié l'exposition à la chaleur ; pourtant, les villes de taille moyenne comme Ile-Ife restent peu étudiées. Cette étude évalue la vulnérabilité à la chaleur dans le centre urbain d'Ile-Ife, au Nigeria, et élabore un indice de vulnérabi...
La ville de Zinder (Damagaram) est située sur le socle cristallin du plateau, reposant sur des formations précambriennes. Mais malgré cela, l’accès à l’eau souterraine reste difficile pour les populations depuis des décennies. Cette étude a pour objectif d’évaluer les outils modernes efficaces d’aid...
La croissance démographique et la dynamique migratoire ont entraîné une extension spatiale et une urbanisation du doublet Avrankou-Adjarra. La forte pression sur les parcelles donne lieu à une poussée de construction d’habitations changeant ainsi les fonctions de la terre. La présente recherche vise...
L'anthropisation des écosystèmes forestiers est devenue un problème environnemental majeur, affectant la biodiversité mondiale. Pour répondre à cette problématique, il est essentiel de suivre l'évolution de l'utilisation des terres. Au Bénin, en particulier dans le corridor des forêts classées des T...
Statutory land allocation is done to ensure equity in the distribution of land resources for the socio-economic development of the citizenry of a state. This paper examines the formal procedure followed in allocating residential land and describes the people that benefited from the allocation in Kat...
Fuelwood consumption has for a while been assumed to be the ultimate cause of forest degradation, and if not checked could lead to forest disappearance. This is owed to the fact that over 90 per cent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa is dependent on the resource as a source of energy. Hence, t...
Urban development disturbs the ecological balance by increasing imperviousness of land and diminishing green cover. Over recent decades, researches have brought to light the importance of urban greenery and its role in sustaining the environment of cities and towns around the world. Urban growth in ...
Conflict management is a key building block of forest governance; it has received little or no consideration in most of the ongoing governance reforms in Niger Republic. Understanding and finding the means to deal with conflicts related to utilization of forest resources became an important research...
This research analyzed desertification and land degradation in Dambatta Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State with the view to delineating hotspot areas that require intervention. The imageries used for the research analysis were obtained from National Space Research and Development Agency (NASR...
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African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus
Nigeria
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African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus
Nigeria
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African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus
Nigeria
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African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus
Nigeria
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