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Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia

Ecology and Society
Foreign investment in agricultural land, often referred to as large-scale land acquisition (LSLA), presents a complex phenomenon with significant social-ecological trade-offs and synergies, leading to potential lasting ecological impacts.
Carly S Muir, Reza Khatami, Jane Southworth   +2 more
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Global change of land use systems : IMAGE: a new land allocation module [PDF]

The Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment (IMAGE) aims at assessing the state of the environment taking into account the effects of human activities.
Letourneau, A.P., Stehfest, E., Verburg, P.H.   +2 more
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An Agent-Based Model of Mediterranean Agricultural Land-Use/Cover Change for Examining Wildfire Risk [PDF]

Humans have a long history of activity in Mediterranean Basin landscapes. Spatial heterogeneity in these landscapes hinders our understanding about the impacts of changes in human activity on ecological processes, such as wildfire.
George Perry, James Millington, John Wainwright, Ra�l Romero-Calcerrada   +3 more
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Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of subtropical ant communities with land-cover change. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2023
Kass JM, Yoshimura M, Ogasawara M, Suwabe M, Hita Garcia F, Fischer G, Dudley KL, Donohue I, Economo EP.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Patterns and Rates of Land Use Land Cover Change: A Case Study of Ambos Nogales (Arizona and Sonora), 1985-2004 [PDF]

The continued expansion of the paired U.S.–Mexican border cities of Ambos Nogales presents many environmental management and urban planning challenges.
Jyoti Jain, Soe W. Myint, Subhrajit Guhathakurta   +2 more
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Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Zhang W, Chen A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Carbon fluxes related to land use and land cover change in Baden-Württemberg. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess, 2023
Ulrich V, Schultz M, Lautenbach S, Zipf A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Causal machine learning methods for understanding land use and land cover change. [PDF]

Landsc Ecol
Eigenbrod F, Alexander P, Apfel N, Athanasiadis IN, Berger T, Bullock JM, Duveiller G, Equihua J, Menezes I, Moreira R, Paudel D, Sitokonstantinou V, Reichstein M, Willcock S, Woodman T.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The impact of land cover change on the carbon stock of moist afromontane forests in the Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve. [PDF]

Carbon Balance Manag, 2023
Tadese S, Soromessa T, Aneseye AB, Gebeyehu G, Noszczyk T, Kindu M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Forest cover change in space and time : combining the von Thunen and forest transition theories [PDF]

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by ...
Angelsen, Arild
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