There still exist confusion and misunderstandings of what is exactly meant with land, land
cover and land use, and about how to study and classify these. This is partly due to the …

Land cover is a critical variable linking the human and physical environments. Moreover,
these three variables namely land cover, the human environment and physical environment …

Landscape is a key geographical concept and geographical research on land change and
land use has a tradition that can be dated back for almost a hundred years. The …

To understand recent changes in Earth's system and provide adequate policy advice,
quantitative and spatially explicit data are needed on how land cover has been changed by …

Changes in land use and land cover have contributed substantially to the increased C02
content of the atmosphere, have exacerbated shortages of water, have substantially …

Introduction worldwide as at present. Almost all of the world's lands are now used and
managed, albeit in widely varying degrees of intensity (Richards, 1990). Land …

This book contains 24 papers which provide information on land use, land cover change in
relation to information bases, historical assessment, modelling and prediction, remote …

The contemporary state of the world's land cover is a constantly shifting mosaic of cover
types determined by both the physical environment and human impact. The distribution of …

The expertise and knowledge accumulated by geographers in this area are now in urgent
demand by the international scientific and policy communities to illuminate key issues of …

Making sense of changes in global patterns of land use or land cover requires drastic
simplification. The complexity of changes on the world scale easily defies the most acute …