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How may deforestation rates and political instruments affect land use patterns and Carbon emissions in the semi-arid Chaco, Argentina?
(Pergamon, 2020-12)
In the last decades, dry Chaco forests experienced both intensive deforestation and land use changes. The intensification of deforestation at the national level led to the enactment of the National Forest Law (N° 26.331) ...
UNEP-SETAC guideline on global land use impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services in LCA
(Springer Heidelberg, 2013-04-02)
Purpose As a consequence of the multi-functionality of land, the impact assessment of land use in Life Cycle Impact Assessment requires the modelling of several impact pathways covering biodiversity and ecosystem services. ...
Sustainable land management in a european context : a co-design approach
Sustainable land management is a key issue among the various applications of
sustainable development. Humans are mobile terrestrial beings who need land as
terra firma to support their activities and obtain vital resources. ...
Land field survey
(CIMMYT, 2016)
Regional variability of volcanic ash soils in south Ecuador: the relation with parent material, climate and land use
(2007)
The high Andes region of south Ecuador is characterised by intense land use changes. These changes affect particularly the páramo, which is a collection of high altitudinal grassland ecosystems. In this region, the interaction ...
Agriculture adjustment, land-use transition and protected areas in Northwestern Argentina
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2009-02)
Land-use change is the main component of regional environmental change, while protected areas represent a direct land use policy to prevent its potentially negative effects on biodiversity and environmental services. We ...
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 ...
Reconciling farming and wild nature: Integrating human–wildlife coexistence into the land-sharing and land-sparing framework
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)
Land has traditionally been spared to protect biodiversity; however, this approach has not succeeded by itself and requires a complementary strategy in human-dominated landscapes: land-sharing. Human–wildlife conflicts are ...