Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Local Processes and Global Impacts
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Introduction: Local Processes with Global Impacts
Concerns about land-use/cover change emerged in the research agenda on global environmental change several decades ago with the realization that land-surface processes influence climate. In the mid-1970s, it w...
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Causes and Trajectories of Land-Use/Cover Change
One of the key activities of the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project has been to stimulate the syntheses of knowledge of land-use/cover change processes, and in particular to advance understanding of the caus...
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Linking Land-Change Science and Policy: Current Lessons and Future Integration
Human use of the land and oceans is at the center of some of the most complicated and pressing problems faced by policy makers around the world today (e.g., DeFries et al. 2004b; Platt 2004; Millennium Ecosyst...
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Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs
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Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges
Since time immemorial, humankind has changed landscapes in attempts to improve the amount, quality, and security of natural resources critical to its well being, such as food, freshwater, fiber, and medicinal ...
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Multiple Impacts of Land-Use/Cover Change
Local changes in land-use/cover are so pervasive that, when aggregated globally, they may significantly affect central aspects of the Earth System functioning and thus life support functions and human liveliho...
