Land use/cover change (LUCC), as an important factor in global change, is a topic that has
recently received considerable attention in the prospective modeling domain. There are …

Land change models can help scientists and users to understand change processes and
design policies to reduce the negative impact of human activities on the earth system at …

The decade since the initiation of the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project in 1995 (see
Chap. 1) has witnessed considerable advances in the field of modeling of land-use/cover …

Land use change modelling, especially if done in a spatially-explicit, integrated and multi-
scale manner, is an important technique for the projection of alternative pathways into the …

Highlights•We review approaches to modeling land change in scientific and practical
applications.•Modeling approaches need to be considered relative to the different purposes …

Being a widespread phenomenon, land use changes are being increasingly evaluated by
modeling methods, including statistical modeling. Land use changes models facilitate …

Land-change models are increasingly used to explore land-change dynamics, as well as for
policy analyses and scenario studies. In this paper we review calibration and validation …

Abstract The CLUE (Conversion of Land Use and its Effects) model is one of the most widely
applied models with approximately 30 applications in different regions of the globe focusing …

Landscape pattern indexes are quantitative descriptions of the spatial composition and
configuration of land use, which can influence a variety of ecological phenomena. In this …

Abstract Models are used in a variety of fields, including land change science, to better
understand the dynamics of systems, to develop hypotheses that can be tested empirically …