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The development of land cover change is important to understand, so that the pattern of future land cover changes can be predicted and its negative impacts can be prevented or reduced.
Agus Rudi Darmawan +2 more
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Land use models play an important role in exploring future land change dynamics and are instrumental to support the integration of knowledge in land system science. However, only modest progress has been made in achieving these aims due to insufficient model evaluation and limited representation of the underlying socio-ecological processes.
Verburg, Peter H. +6 more
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Parks, people and pixels: evaluating landscape effects of an East African national park on its surroundings [PDF]
Landscapes surrounding protected areas, while still containing considerable biodiversity, have rapidly growing human populations and associated agricultural development in most of the developing world that tend to isolate them, potentially reducing their
Binford, Elizabeth +7 more
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In Indonesia, land cover change for agriculture and mining is threatening tropical forests, biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, land cover change is highly dynamic and complex and varies over time and space.
Carina van der Laan +7 more
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Long-term assessment using historical satellite imagery is critical for gaining meta-information and identifying trends in land cover change. Informed policymaking about this assessment ensures forest sustainability and mitigates climate change to ...
Adhe Viana Yulida Putri +2 more
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Dynamics of a salinity-prone agricultural catchment driven by markets, farmers' attitude and climate change [PDF]
An agent-based simulation model has been developed with CORMAS combining simplified bio-physical processes of land cover, dry-land salinity changes, rainfall, farm profitability and farmer decisions on land uses in a dry-land agricultural catchment (no ...
Asseng, S. +4 more
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A long-term perspective on deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Monitoring tropical forest cover and forest cover change is central to biodiversity preservation, terrestrial carbon stocks, essential ecosystem and climate functions, and ultimately, sustainable economic development.
ACHARD Frederic +6 more
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Modeling Land Cover Change Using MOLUSCE in Kahayan Tengah Forest Management Unit, Kalimantan Tengah
A management unit-based land cover change analysis was examined in Kahayan Tengah Forest Management Unit (FMU) to understand past, present, and future land cover to assist forest management planning in Kahayan Tengah FMU.
Beni Iskandar +4 more
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Identification of Factors Causing Land Cover Change in the Cikapundung Watershed [PDF]
Land cover change (LCC) is one of the most important global environmental issues in this modern era. Land cover change that occurs at local scales can impact global ecosystems due to cascading effects.
A. B. Harto +7 more
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Spatial Modelling of Landscape and Land Cover Pattern at Semarang City
Semarang City is one of the largest city in Indonesia. Tidal flooding at the coast and landslide at the hills, are the issues the city currently dealing with as a side effect of land conversion.
Kurniawati Sugiyo +2 more
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