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Land Use Change from Non-urban to Urban Areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This reprint is related to land-use change and non-urban and urban relationships at all spatiotemporal scales and also focuses on land-use planning and regulatory strategies for a sustainable future.

core   +2 more sources

UK rural land use archetypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) commissioned the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to identify and characterise a set of baseline archetypes that are representative of current rural land-use and land-management in England and each of the devolved ...
Thomson, Amanda, Young, Hannah
core   +4 more sources

Land use: reducing emissions and preparing for climate change

open access: yes, 2018
This is the first of two reports on how to improve our use of land to meet climate goals. This report identifies areas where changes can enable landowners to deliver climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives, among the other priorities for ...

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Bioenergy and global land-use change [PDF]

open access: yesApplied 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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Preliminary modelling of the effects of land use and management change on available water [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report is part of the "Land use, climate change & water availability (Phase 2a)" project which was commissioned and funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Hess, Tim M., Holman, Ian P.
core   +7 more sources

Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Migration and Food Security of North Central Region, Nigeria

open access: yesLand, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Non-Stationary Flood Frequency Analysis in the Ouémé River Basin, Benin Republic

open access: yesHydrology, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia???Analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tropical forests in Indonesia are subject to major transformation processes from native forests to other land uses, including rubber agroforestry as well as rubber and oil palm plantation systems.
Giessen, Lukas   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Changes In Land Use/ Cover And Water Balance Components During 1964–2010 Period In The Mono River Basin, Togo-Benin

open access: yesGeography, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Research priorities in land use and land-cover change for the Earth System and Integrated Assessment Modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This special issue has highlighted recent and innovative methods and results that integrate observations and modelling analyses of regional to global aspect of biophysical and biogeochemical interactions of land-cover change with the climate system. Both
Janetos, Anthony   +25 more
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