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Urban Land Use Land Cover Change

2017
Indian cities are on the cross roads of rapid urban growth, which calls for meticulous and everlasting urban spatial planning. Cities live for longer and it should be compatible for the future growth. The previous mistakes committed in the land use planning have lead to many serious issues like floods (e.g., Chennai 2015 and Mumbai 2005 Floods) fire ...
Arun Das, Koichi Kimoto, K. Jabir, Dhritiraj Sengupta, B. S. Shriharsha, M. Ravikumar   +5 more
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths [PDF]

Global Environmental Change, 2001
Common understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article tracks some of the major myths on driving forces of land-cover change and proposes alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence.
Lambin, E.F., Turner, B.L., Geist, H.J., Agbola, S.B., Angelsen, A., Bruce, J.W., Coomes, O.T., Dirzo, R., Fischer, G., Folke, C., George, P.S., Homewood, K., Imbernon, J., Leemans, R., Xiubin Li, Moran, E.F., Mortimore, M., Ramakrishnan, P.S., Richards, J.F., Skanes, H., Steffen, W., Stone, G.D., Svedin, U., Veldkamp, A., Vogel, C., Jianchu Xu   +25 more
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Land-Use Land-Cover Change

2013
Land use/land cover changes are occurring at greater pace than ever before in human history. Within the context of land use/land cover change, changes to forest cover are extremely important particularly for rich biodiversity hotspots. This chapter addresses the question: what is the quantum of forest cover loss in the the Hamren sub-division, the Rani-
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Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change

2012
Models are used in a variety of fields, including land change science, to better understand the dynamics of systems, to develop hypotheses that can be tested empirically, and to make predictions and/or evaluate scenarios for use in assessment activities.
Daniel G. Brown, Robert Walker, Steven Manson, Karen Seto   +3 more
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Impact of land cover and land use change on runoff characteristics

Journal of Environmental Management, 2015
Change in Land Cover and Land Use (LCLU) influences the runoff characteristics of a drainage basin to a large extent, which in turn, affects the surface and groundwater availability of the area, and hence leads to further change in LCLU. This forms a vicious circle.
N, Sajikumar, R S, Remya
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Land-use and land-cover change in Western Ghats of India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2016
The Western Ghats (WG) of India, one of the hottest biodiversity hotspots in the world, has witnessed major land-use and land-cover (LULC) change in recent times. The present research was aimed at studying the patterns of LULC change in WG during 1985-1995-2005, understanding the major drivers that caused such change, and projecting the future (2025 ...
Manish P, Kale, Manoj, Chavan, Satish, Pardeshi, Chitiz, Joshi, Prabhakar A, Verma, P S, Roy, S K, Srivastav, V K, Srivastava, A K, Jha, Swapnil, Chaudhari, Yogesh, Giri, Y V N, Krishna Murthy   +11 more
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Prediction of land use/land cover change methods: A study

2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), 2017
Prediction of Land use and cover change using remotely sensed imagery has attracted huge attention. From several decades, multiple researchers have investigated different approaches. The complex nature of the land use change process, due to human-nature interactions and the singularities of satellite images, demands a well-studied approach.
Bounouh, Oumayma, Essid, Houcine, Farah, Imed Riadh   +2 more
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Land use and land cover change modelling

2014
Forest fires result from a number of interacting factors like ignitions, conditions amenable for fire initiation and spread, and landscapes with vegetation (i.e., fuels) that can support the combustion process. In Europe, most fires occur in the southern countries with a Mediterranean climate.
M. Santini, E. Maillé, S. Noce, MICHETTI, MELANIA, F. Bosello, O. Viedma, N. Koutsias, V. Bacciu, B. Duguy   +8 more
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Global Warming and the Economics of Land-Use and of Land-Cover Change

2003
Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) is driven by a combination of: (1) biophysical factors which determine the capability of land use; (2) technological and economic considerations which determine the socioeconomic feasibility of land use and (3) institutional and political arrangements which determine the acceptability
Groeneveld, R.A., Kruseman, G., van Ierland, E.C.   +2 more
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Land use/land cover: inventory and change

1985
Land use information is an important input to a host of planning decisions and for this reason has been gathered by various levels of government for many years. Existing land uses, because of their strong influence on how land will be used in the future, are a crucial element in the development of a land use or land development plan.
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