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Future land use conflicts: Comparing spatial scenarios for urban-regional planning
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2022)
Latin America's intensive urbanization processes are triggering rapid peri-urban transformations and the expansion of cities. These include accelerated metropolization processes, urban sprawl, and the emergence of new ...
Changes in the land use and coverage in the PPAs of the rivers from the County of Jacarezinho-PR, from 1995 to 2015
(Univ Estadual Centro-oeste, 2017-01-01)
The research aimed to analyze the changes in the land use and coverage in the permanent preservation areas of the rivers from the County of Jacarezinho-PR, from 1995 to 2015, and then confront the results with the current ...
Does land-use change increase the abundance of zoonotic reservoirs? Rodents say yes
(Springer, 2020)
Land-use change can raise the risk of human exposure to zoonotic diseases by increasing abundance of reservoir hosts. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis on the associations between land-use change and the abundance ...
Land-cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon with satélite images: towards increasing accuracy.
(In: LBA-ECO SCIENCE TEAM MEETING, 10., 2006. Brasília, DF. Abstracts... Brasília: LBA-ECO, 2006., 2006)
Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts
(Elsevier, 2019-06)
Sustainable intensification of agricultural production is expected to be an important pathway for achieving future food security while protecting the environment. Recognizing that there is no single answer to how different ...
Markov processes in modeling land use and land cover changes in sintra-cascais, portugal
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, 2009)
In this article the process of land use and land cover change (LUCC) is investigated using remote sensing and Markov chains for the municipalities of Sintra and Cascais (Portugal) between years 1989 and 2000. The role of ...
Change in forest cover of the northwest region of Amazon in Mato Grosso state
(Univ Federal Mato Grosso, 2019-09-01)
In the past few years, the intensification of anthropic activities that modify the soil-vegetation cover in Brazil's land has been occurring on a large scale. To monitor the forest cover changes, the techniques of Remote ...
Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach
(Elsevier, 2013-10)
Previous estimates of the land area available for future cropland expansion relied on global-scale climate, soil and terrain data. They did not include a range of constraints and tradeoffs associated with land conversion. ...