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

Land, 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, Appollonia Aimiosino Okhimamhe, Safietou Sanfo, Christine Fürst   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Geography, 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, Kossi Atchonouglo, Julien G. Adounkpe, Badabate Diwediga, Yao Lombo, Kossi E. Kpemoua, Komi Agboka   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

, 2017
This paper presents the overview of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and their energy, land use, and emissions implications. The SSPs are part of a new scenario framework, established by the climate change research community in order to ...
K. Riahi, D. P. Vuuren, E. Kriegler, J. Edmonds, B. O’Neill, S. Fujimori, N. Bauer, K. Calvin, R. Dellink, Oliver Fricko, W. Lutz, A. Popp, J. Cuaresma, S. Kc, Marian Leimbach, Leiwen Jiang, T. Kram, Shilpa Rao, J. Emmerling, K. Ebi, T. Hasegawa, P. Havlík, Florian Humpenöder, L. Silva, Steven J. Smith, E. Stehfest, V. Bosetti, J. Eom, D. Gernaat, T. Masui, J. Rogelj, J. Strefler, L. Drouet, V. Krey, Gunnar Luderer, M. Harmsen, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Lavinia Baumstark, J. Doelman, M. Kainuma, Z. Klimont, G. Marangoni, H. Lotze-Campen, M. Obersteiner, A. Tabeau, M. Tavoni   +45 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Hydrology, 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, Bernd Diekkrüger, Djigbo F. Badou, Abel A. Afouda   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Change Analysis and Prediction of Future Land Use and Land Cover Changes Using QGIS MOLUSCE Plugin and Remote Sensing Big Data: A Case Study of Linyi, China

Land, 2022
Land use and land cover (LULC) change analysis is a systematic technique that aids in the comprehension of physical and non-physical interaction with the natural habitat and the pursuit of environmental sustainability.
R. Muhammad, Wenyin Zhang, Zaheer Abbas, Feng Guo, Luc Gwiazdzinski   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Estimating farmers’ willingness to pay for weather index-based crop insurance uptake in West Africa: Insight from a pilot initiative in Southwestern Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2018
Weather index-based crop insurance is increasingly becoming important as a risk mitigation strategy that farmers may use to mitigate adverse climate shocks and natural disasters encountered during farming.
William M. Fonta, Safietou Sanfo, Abbi M. Kedir, Djiby R. Thiam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of WRF Land Surface Model Performance over West Africa

Advances in Meteorology, 2020
Simulations with four land surface models (LSMs) (i.e., Noah, Noah-MP, Noah-MP with ground water GW option, and CLM4) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 12 km horizontal grid resolution were carried out as two sets for 3 months ...
Ifeanyi C. Achugbu, Jimy Dudhia, Ayorinde A. Olufayo, Ifeoluwa A. Balogun, Elijah A. Adefisan, Imoleayo E. Gbode   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Location-allocation combining fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for waste to energy facilities siting in developing urban areas: The case study of Lomé, Togo

Heliyon, 2023
Waste facilities siting is one of the complex problems encountered by decision makers of waste management in urban developing areas. Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities siting alongside transfer stations involves a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA ...
Kanlanféi Sambiani, Yendoubé Lare, Adamou Zanguina, Satyanarayana Narra   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors of land abandonment in mountainous Mediterranean areas : the case of Montenegrin settlements [PDF]

, 2016
Land use changes have been investigated in the surroundings of 14 rural Montenegrin settlements in order to get specific information about trends in land abandonment since around 1950. Permanently, seasonally and less inhabited settlements with different
Kerckhof, Annelies, Nyssen, Jan, Spalevic, Velibor, Van Eetvelde, Veerle   +3 more
core   +1 more source

An open and extensible framework for spatially explicit land use change modelling in R: the lulccR package (0.1.0) [PDF]

, 2015
Land use change has important consequences for biodiversity and the sustainability of ecosystem services, as well as for global environmental change.
Buytaert, W, Mijic, A, Moulds, SC
core   +2 more sources