Subways are a popular form of public transportation worldwide, given their speed, capacity, and lack of reliance on road infrastructure and conditions. Proponents argue that the...
Vegetation Continuous Fields Datasource for Calculating Deforestation
Information about vegetation coverage of the earth's surface - particularly changes in coverage - enables...
In the last few years serious flood events occurred at the watershed of the river Tisza (both in Hungary and in Ukraine). One of the reasons of these floods is heavy...
"Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan Stephen Shennan"
The transformation of natural landscapes in Middle Europe began in the Neolithic as a result of the introduction of food-producing economies. This paper examines the relation...
Ferdinand, Handavuab, Paxie W.C.Chirwa, Stephen Syampungani
This study examined socio-economic factors that influence land-use and land-cover dynamics in the Copperbelt miombo woodlands of Zambia. Data were collected through household...
Marcelo R. Zak, Marcelo Cabido, Daniel Cáceres & Sandra Díaz
Synergistic combinations of climatic and land use changes have the potential to produce the most dramatic impacts on land cover. Although this is widely accepted, empirical...
Bankole Michael Oladele and Bakare Hakeem Oladimeji
There are so many problems confronting most contemporary cities in the recent time particularly among the less developed countries around the world. These problems have been...
Daniel Bekele,Tena Alamirew, ORCID Icon, Asfaw Kebede, Gete Zeleke & Assefa M. Melesse
Unprecedented pace and magnitude of land use/land cover (LULC) change in the Ethiopian highlands is a key problem threatening the natural ecosystem and creates vulnerability to...
Marcos Wellausen Dias de Freitas, João Roberto dos Santos & Diógenes Salas Alves
Land-use and land-cover change affects both ecological and socioeconomic processes, motivating the integration of environmental and socioeconomic data to help understand this...
Yudi Setiawan ,Kunihiko Yoshino &William D. Philpot
Improving the understanding of land use and land cover is a major research challenge for the human-environmental sciences and is essential for many aspects of global...
This study analyzes land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China....
"Land is a very important asset and a means to sustain livelihood. In the face of a rapidly growing global population, increase in technological capacity, and affluence, the...
This study explores the major drivers of Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) dynamics and the observed environmental degradation as a response to these changes in the Modjo watershed,...
Giovana M.de Espindola , Ana Paula D.de Aguiar, Edzer Pebesma ,Gilberto Câmara, Leila Fonseca
The potential impact of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon on greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere calls for policies that take account of changes in forest cover....
Olga Lucia, Puertasa Cristian, Henríquez, Francisco Javier Meza
Scenario analysis of urban dynamics from spatial land use models can support urban, planning and policy. An integrated modeling approach, linking assessment of urban spatial...
This paper estimates econometric models of the socioeconomic drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China. The panel data used to estimate the models are...
Leah K. VanWey, Álvaro O. D’Antona & Eduardo S. Brondízio
Demographic interest in population and environment has grown in recent decades. One of the most prominent research areas in this tradition addresses the impact of population on...
The country of Spain is representative of land change processes in Mediterranean member states of the European Union (EU). These land change processes are often triggered by...
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The Río de la Plata grasslands (RPG) in South America are one of the largest temperate grasslands regions of the world. This region plays a key role in international crop...
Robin S. Reid, Russell L. Kruska, Nyawira Muthui, Andualem Taye, Sara Wotton, Cathleen J. Wilson & Woudyalew Mulatu
Few studies of land-use/land-cover change provide an integrated assessment of the driving forces and consequences of that change, particularly in Africa. Our objectives were to...