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Bioenergy and global land-use change [PDF]
Applied Economics, 2014 This is the first article that econometrically estimates the global land-use change impact of bioenergy. Applying time-series analytical mechanisms to fuel, biofuel and agricultural commodity prices and production, we estimate the long-run relationship between energy prices, bioenergy production and the global land-use change.
Pavel Ciaian +2 more
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Land use in rural New Zealand: spatial land use, land-use change, and model validation [PDF]
, 2014 Land is an important social and economic resource. Knowing the spatial distribution of land use and the expected location of future land-use change is important to inform decision makers.
Corey Allan +4 more
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Land, 2023 Food security is adversely affected by challenges posed by changes in land use and land cover (LULC). LULC change impacts ecosystem functions and services, leading to migration of people, particularly rural dwellers.
Sunday Opeyemi Okeleye +3 more
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Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2023 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that sub-tropical regions are more vulnerable to climate change’s negative effects (CC). Additionally, to CC, land use and land cover (LULC) changes and dam construction, often neglected, play ...
Djan’na K. Houteta +6 more
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Non-Stationary Flood Frequency Analysis in the Ouémé River Basin, Benin Republic
Hydrology, 2015 A statistical model to predict the probability and magnitude of floods in non-stationary conditions is presented. The model uses a time-dependent and/or covariate-dependent generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution to fit the annual maximal (AM ...
Jean Hounkpè +3 more
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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2018 Weather index-based crop insurance is increasingly becoming important as a risk mitigation strategy that farmers may use to mitigate adverse climate shocks and natural disasters encountered during farming.
William M. Fonta +3 more
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LULUCF : Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry : Interactieve PDF
, 2021 Deze interactieve PDF beschrijft de monitoring en rapportage van de emissies en verwijderingen van broeikasgassen door landgebruik, landgebruiksveranderingen en bosbouw (LULUCF) in Nederland.
Hendriks, Chantal +3 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Waste facilities siting is one of the complex problems encountered by decision makers of waste management in urban developing areas. Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities siting alongside transfer stations involves a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA ...
Kanlanféi Sambiani +3 more
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Factors of land abandonment in mountainous Mediterranean areas : the case of Montenegrin settlements [PDF]
, 2016 Land use changes have been investigated in the surroundings of 14 rural Montenegrin settlements in order to get specific information about trends in land abandonment since around 1950. Permanently, seasonally and less inhabited settlements with different
Kerckhof, Annelies +3 more
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Assessment of WRF Land Surface Model Performance over West Africa
Advances in Meteorology, 2020 Simulations with four land surface models (LSMs) (i.e., Noah, Noah-MP, Noah-MP with ground water GW option, and CLM4) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 12 km horizontal grid resolution were carried out as two sets for 3 months ...
Ifeanyi C. Achugbu +5 more
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