Land Use and Land Cover Change

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Land Use and Land Cover Change

Author	: Eric F. Lambin
File Size	: 52,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 January 2008
ISBN	: 9783540322023
Pages	: 222 pages

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Land Use and Land Cover Change by Eric F. Lambin Book PDF Summary

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.

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This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions

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This book analyses the impact of human activities on the Earth's surface and environment.

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This text aims to promote a better understanding of land use and land-cover change in the assessment and management of global environmental resources, and to develop a comparative framework for assessing these changes.

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Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century. From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term impacts

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Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of how remote sensing can be used for land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring from the local to the global scale. With contributions by

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Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe by Ioannis Manakos,Matthias Braun

Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its different patterns of utilization superimposed on the natural vegetation. LULC is a core information layer for a variety

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Land Cover and Land Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 by Garik Gutman,Volker Radeloff

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed. It explores the collapse of socialist governance and management systems on land cover and land use in various parts of Eastern Europe. As readers will discover, this involved rapid

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