In the Manafwa district, a specific area that typifies land use and cover change in the region was chosen. The availability of imagery, particularly the 1960 aerial photography of the area was also a basis for the selection. Sites that have experienced frequent landslides in the recent past ...
Land-use/cover change (LUCC) is the most direct manifestation of human activities affecting climate change. With the increase of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere and global warming, its impact on the carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems has become an indispensable part of the field ...
Rapid land use change has taken place in many arid and semi-arid regions of China including the Loess Plateau. In this study, changes in land use and landscape fragmentation in the small Shanghuang watershed on the Loess Plateau were investigated by the combined use of remote sensing, GIS and...
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Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management and policy. We quantify the extent and fragmentation of suitable habitat
Based on a survey of land use change conducted in Chicheng County,Hebei Province,this paper discusses the problems in current land use classification system and proposes some improvement projects in order to enhance the operation of the standard of land use classification in practical survey and to...
Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl. The book is written in three parts. Part I considers contemporary definitions, theories and trends in European urban sprawl... Couch,C/ Petschelheld,G/ Leontidou,... 被引量: 20...
The effects of land use change on soil carbon stocks are of concern in the context of international policy agendas on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation. This paper reviews the literature for the influence of land use changes on soil C stocks and reports the results of a meta analysis of thes...
The streamflow, runoff and groundwater discharge were successfully simulated using a lumped hydrological model that can assess the impact of land use change in the watershed. The variability and magnitude of future hydrological components were significantly and cumulatively influenced by land use changes ...
Examples are primarily drawn from temperate grasslands in England and the wider UK, although the general principle of the discussion is universally applicable as explained below. Context: historic land use change behind present-day grasslands Depending on the satellite imagery data used for the ...