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Assessing climate change impact on the hydropower potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta, West Africa) [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2021
This study evaluates the impact of future climate change (CC) on the hydropower generation potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta) in West Africa using a conceptual rainfall-runoff model (HBV light) and regional climate models (RCMs)–global ...
Y. Yira, Y. Yira, T. C. Mutsindikwa, T. C. Mutsindikwa, A. Y. Bossa, A. Y. Bossa, J. Hounkpè, J. Hounkpè, S. Salack   +8 more
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The potential land requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy

Scientific Reports, 2021
Although the transition to renewable energies will intensify the global competition for land, the potential impacts driven by solar energy remain unexplored.
D. van de Ven, Íñigo Capellán-Pérez, I. Arto, I. Cazcarro, Carlos de Castro, P. Patel, M. González‐Eguino   +6 more
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Low-cost adaptation options to support green growth in agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones

Scientific Reports, 2022
The regional climate as it is now and in the future will put pressure on investments in sub-Saharan Africa in water resource management, fisheries, and other crop and livestock production systems.
Seyni Salack, Safiétou Sanfo, Moussa Sidibe, Elidaa K. Daku, Ibrahima Camara, Mame Diarra Bousso Dieng, Koufanou Hien, Bio Mohamadou Torou, Kehinde O. Ogunjobi, Sheick Ahmed Khalil S. B. Sangare, Konan Raoul Kouame, Yao Bernard Koffi, Stefan Liersch, Moumini Savadogo, Alessandra Giannini   +14 more
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Identifying core driving factors of urban land use change from global land cover products and POI data using the random forest method

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2021
Rapid urbanization at the expense of the environment led to a reduction in vegetation cover, and consequently aggravated land degradation, urban water logging, heat island effect and other effects.
Hao Wu, Anqi Lin, Xudong Xing, D. Song, Yan Li   +4 more
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The impact of crop farmers’ decisions on future land use, land cover changes in Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018
Purpose - This paper aims to assess the rate and land category contributing to the changes in seven land-uses in the Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana and the effect of the decisions of land users on future landscapes.
Enoch Bessah, Abdullahi Bala, Sampson Kweku Agodzo, Appollonia Aimiosino Okhimamhe, Emmanuel Amoah Boakye, Saratu Usman Ibrahim   +5 more
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An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

Nature Communications, 2017
Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil erosion, which has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity and in turn, worldwide socio-economic conditions.
P. Borrelli, D. Robinson, Larissa R. Fleischer, E. Lugato, C. Ballabio, C. Alewell, K. Meusburger, S. Modugno, B. Schütt, V. Ferro, V. Bagarello, K. Oost, L. Montanarella, Panos Panagos   +13 more
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Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature

Global Change Biology, 2021
Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems.
C. W. Davison, C. Rahbek, N. Morueta‐Holme   +2 more
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Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated

Nature Communications, 2021
Quantifying land use change is critical in tackling global challenges related to food, climate and biodiversity. Here the authors show that land use change has affected 32 % of the global land area in six decades (1960- 2019) by combining multiple open ...
Karina Winkler, Richard Fuchs, Mark Rounsevell, Martin Herold   +3 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, Simon Anastasiadis, Suzi Kerr, Wei Zhang, William Power   +4 more
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Landsat-8 vs. Sentinel-2: examining the added value of sentinel-2’s red-edge bands to land-use and land-cover mapping in Burkina Faso

GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018
The availability of freely available moderate-to-high spatial resolution (10–30 m) satellite imagery received a major boost with the recent launch of the Sentinel-2 sensor by the European Space Agency.
Gerald Forkuor, Kangbeni Dimobe, Idriss Serme, Jerome Ebagnerin Tondoh   +3 more
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