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Modelling the impacts of cropland displacement on potential cereal production with four levels of China’s administrative boundaries
Cropland displacement, as an important characteristic of cropland change, places more emphasis on changes in spatial location than on quantity. The...
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Uphill cropland and stability assessment of gained cropland in China over the preceding 30 years
In recent years, cropland development in high-slope regions in China has alleviated the contradiction between total cropland balance and insufficient...
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A New Indicator for Global Food Security Assessment: Harvested Area Rather Than Cropland Area
Cropland area has long been used as a key indicator of food security. However, grain yield is not solely controlled by the area of the cropland....
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Soil Carbon Stocks and Dynamics of Church Forests in Northern Ethiopian
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is a major cause of climate change. Release of soil carbon is one of the major causes. In the Northern part of...
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Exploring detailed urban-rural development under intersecting population growth and food production scenarios: Trajectories for China’s most populous agricultural province to 2030
Henan, China, is likely the most populous agricultural province worldwide. It is China’s major grain-producing area, with a continuously increasing...
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Shoreline dynamics in the reserved region of meghna estuary and its impact on lulc and socio-economic conditions: a case study from nijhum dwip, Bangladesh
The southern region of Bangladesh is more unstable than the other part of the country due to massive discharge of heavy sediment through the Meghna...
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The impact of global cropland changes on terrestrial ecosystem services value, 1992–2015
From 1992 to 2015, ecological environment has been threatened by the changes of cropland around the world. In order to evaluate the impact of...
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Timing and Mechanisms of Fluvial Responses to Rapid Land Use Changes in the Surrounding Highlands of the Pantanal Wetland (Brazil): The Case of Taquari River
Since the 1970s, the intensification of anthropogenic activities in the surrounding plateau has caused changes in surface processes that directly...
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Has Drought Intensified During 1981–2021 Global Warming?
Since the mid-eighteenth century, the Earth climate has been warming up. In the past 60 years, Earth warmed up intensively, leading to never before...
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Accuracy Assessment of ESA WorldCover 2020 and ESRI 2020 Land Cover Maps for a Region in Syria
Obtaining high-accuracy land use/land cover (LULC) maps is very costly; therefore, the use of the global LULC maps may prove to be very effective in...
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Evaluating the impact of flood inundation with the cloud computing platform over vegetation cover of Ganga Basin during COVID-19
Around the month of July 2020, the people suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic got added burden of disastrous floods. The current study tries to...
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Evaluation of Post-Seismic Ground Deformation Using the D-InSAR Technique
Tamenglong, the city of Manipur, and its surrounding areas, were hit by an earthquake at 6.7Mw on 4 January 2016. The epicenter is located at...
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Sheet and Rill Erosion
In this chapter, multiple sets of data collected from both closed (with artificial boundaries) and open plots (without artificial boundaries) are...
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Quantifying and assessing land use and land cover changes around the critical waterbodies — a case study of Bhagirathi-Hooghly floodplain, East India
The study strictly inclined to the Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change map** and assessing, surrounding and inside the abandoned natural river...
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Basic Information on Hydrogeological Hazards (Flood and Landslide)
This chapter provides basic detail information on both flood and landslide hazards. The first section defines the main key concepts followed by the...
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Co** Strategies of People Displaced by Riverbank Erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary
Riverbank erosionRiverbank erosion is common as a disaster event in riverine Bangladesh. It not only affects people living in inland charChars areas...
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Assessing River Bank Erosion in the Ganges Using Remote Sensing and GIS
River bank erosion is one of major issues occurring due to high flow, extra silt charge and river channel shift and causes several physical and...
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Searching for socio-ecological approaches to increase Balanites trees through local small-scale conservation in the conservancies adjoining the Maasai Mara, Kenya
On the edges of the Maasai Mara in western Kenya there are 15 conservancies, where herds of wildlife, cattle, sheep, goats, and predators are found...
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of cultivated land use eco-efficiency and its influencing factors in China from 2000 to 2020
Improving cultivated land use eco-efficiency (CLUE) can effectively promote agricultural sustainability, particularly in develo** countries where...
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Global Change in Mountains and Its Consequences at Different Scales
Throughout this book it has been verified that the world’s mountain areas are being affected by major changes with serious consequences for the...