Land Journal
The Land Journal is published six times a year for members of the Rural, Geomatics, Minerals & Waste Management, Environment, and Planning & Development professional groups.
The journal emphasises the crossovers in these practice areas and their global nature, with articles contributed by experts from all over the world.
Current and recent issues of Land Journal can be downloaded below. Earlier archived issues can be obtained from our library (e library@rics.org).
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Environment
Journals & magazine 
Mike Swain, 16 May 2018
For discussion
Ash dieback disease hit the headlines in 2012 with predictions of devastation, but then seemed to be forgotten. Yet in the intervening years it has continued to spread and is now threatening millions of trees across the UK.
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Planning & development
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 20 Mar 2018
For discussion
The housing crisis has moved up the political agenda recently, and featured prominently at this year’s Ecobuild conference.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 09 Jan 2018
For discussion
The UK faces some significant challenges over the next decade sourcing its energy and maintaining security of supply.
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Planning & development
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 23 Oct 2017
For discussion
There is a revolution going on in the development and application of satellite technology, and much of it is highly relevant to surveyors.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 13 Jul 2017
For discussion
The notion of selling nature seems, at first, to be rather uncouth. You might wonder what a romantic poet such as Wordsworth would have made of it.
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Geomatics
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 16 May 2017
For discussion
Bitcoin has been in the news as the currency of choice for hackers whose ransomware has infiltrated computer systems around the world.
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Planning & development
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 12 Apr 2017
For discussion
It may be hard to believe at the moment, but there is more to life than Brexit — as, I hope, this issue of Land Journal demonstrates.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 16 Feb 2017
For discussion
Our lead article by the eminent Stig Enemark — well-known to many of you — is entitled “Supporting the 2030 global agenda”, and examines the need for sound land governance and administration as well as the importance of land issues in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 21 Nov 2016
For discussion
Where is the largest concentration of leopards in the world? The answer is Mumbai, India.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 12 Sep 2016
For discussion
There’s a strong technological theme to this issue, though this is not deliberate. Rather, it is a reflection of how technology is affecting so many aspects of surveying, leading to new ways of looking at and shaping the world.
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Environment
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 21 Jun 2016
For discussion
People have passions about many different things; Tim Farewell’s is for soil.
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Rural
Journals & magazine Mike Swain, 18 May 2016
The Land Journal is not a news magazine in the strictest sense. But that does not stop it being topical.