Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

F Pendrill, TA Gardner, P Meyfroidt, UM Persson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems,
climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it …

The impact of population growth on natural resources and farmers' capacity to adapt to climate change in low-income countries

MM Maja, SF Ayano - Earth Systems and Environment, 2021 - Springer
Population growth and natural resources are intricately linked and play role in climate
disruption and farmers' ability to adapt to climate change especially in developing countries …

Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

X Xu, P Sharma, S Shu, TS Lin, P Ciais, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Agriculture and land use are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but
previous estimates were either highly aggregate or provided spatial details for subsectors …

A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

X Zhang, M Brandt, X Tong, P Ciais, Y Yue, X Xiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
China has experienced unprecedented urbanization and associated rural depopulation
during recent decades alongside a massive increase in the total population. By using …

[图书][B] The economics of biodiversity: the Dasgupta review.

P Dasgupta - 2021 - bibliotecadigital.ciren.cl
Economics, like I imagine other scientific disciplines, normally moves in incremental steps,
and always without a central guide. Much like practitioners of other disciplines, we …

Moving towards a sustainable environment: the dynamic linkage between natural resources, human capital, urbanization, economic growth, and ecological footprint in …

Z Ahmed, MM Asghar, MN Malik, K Nawaz - Resources Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The relationship between natural resource abundance and environmental degradation has
important environmental implications. However, this domain is insufficiently investigated …

Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests

NT Hoang, K Kanemoto - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Deforestation, a significant threat to biodiversity, is accelerated by global demand for
commodities. Although prior literature has linked deforestation to global supply chains, here …

Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

X Li, P Gong, Y Zhou, J Wang, Y Bai… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies.
However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge …

Sentinel-2 data for land cover/use mapping: A review

D Phiri, M Simwanda, S Salekin, VR Nyirenda… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The advancement in satellite remote sensing technology has revolutionised the approaches
to monitoring the Earth's surface. The development of the Copernicus Programme by the …

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

XP Song, MC Hansen, SV Stehman, PV Potapov… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Land change is a cause and consequence of global environmental change,. Changes in
land use and land cover considerably alter the Earth's energy balance and biogeochemical …