Land|use change

Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, 2000-2020 | GLAD

The Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, 2000-2020 The GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change dataset quantifies changes in forest extent and height, ...

Land Use/Land Cover Change and Its Driving Forces in Shenkolla ...

Shenkolla watershed has changed significantly during the past 4 decades between 1973 and 2017. This observed change indicates a reduction in forest land and an ...

Reducing land-use change and conversion of natural ecosystems ...

Interventions for climate change mitigation and adaptation that help to maintain and restore ecosystems, improve soil and water quality, and that increase ...

Land use change - Biodiversity Information System for Europe

Land use change ... Human land use, and its influence on land cover, is a major driver of the distribution and functioning of ecosystems, and thus in the delivery ...

Issue: Land Use Change - Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance

Development is slicing, dicing, and nibbling away at forest lands. From 1982 to 1997, 8.2 million acres of open space in the Northeast and Midwest were lost to ...

Environmental Effects of Agricultural Land-Use Change - USDA ERS

Keywords: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), crop insurance, erosion, extensive margin, farm policy, imperiled species, land use, land-use change, land quality ...

Land - the planet's carbon sink - the United Nations

Without efforts to restore and protect land, nearly 70 gigatonnes more carbon would be emitted by 2050 due to land use change and soil degradation, representing ...

Land use, land-use change and forestry | Climate Action Tracker

The land sector can play a large role in reducing global emissions and land sinks need to be preserved to meet the Paris Agreement.

Land cover, land use, climate change and food security

The article discusses the intricate relationships between land cover and land use change on the one hand and climate on the other.

What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National ...

Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other ...

NLCD Land Cover Change Index (CONUS)

The NLCD change index summarizes NLCD land cover change into 11 change classes. ... For example, pixels assigned to the agriculture change index included “from or ...

Land use and land-use change - NDC LAC

Land-use change refers to changes in the use or management of land by humans, which can also lead to a change in land cover (Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Land Use - Our World in Data

The visualization shows human land use over the long term (since 10,000 BCE) and details the change in total land used for cropland, grazing land, and built-up/ ...

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the ...

This article tracks some of the major myths on driving forces of land-cover change and proposes alternative pathways of change that are better supported by ...

How do changes in land use impact water resources?

Agriculture, the clearing of forests, and the draining of wetlands have caused significant modifications to the surface of the Earth. Tillage of the land and ...

4 Priorities for Managing US Lands in the Face of Climate Change

Forest loss due to land use change is an equally significant threat to natural carbon stores and ecosystem resilience. WRI's Global Forest Watch ...

Land Use and Land Cover Changes | My NASA Data

Major natural forces cause such changes as volcanoes, continental shifts, building and erosion of mountains, reorganization of oceans, appearance and ...

Future Land Use/Land Cover Change Has Nontrivial and Potentially ...

Future land use/land cover change has nontrivial and potentially dominant impact on global gross primary productivity.

Changing Land Use and Land Cover - Planetary Health Alliance

Changing Land Use and Land Cover ... THE CONVERSION of natural habitat to land used for agriculture and industry is occurring on a global scale, driven by an ...

Land Use and Ecological Change: A 12000-Year History

Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and foraging to burning the land to farming to ...