The world population is estimated to reach nine billion by 2050. Many challenges are
adding pressure on the current agriculture supply chains that include shrinking land sizes …

This paper reviews the evolution of forest policies and forestry institutions in Nepal and
tracks the accompanying trends of change in the country's forest cover over the last century …

Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and
monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountains represent one of the largest ice
masses of the Earth. The region, referred to by scientists as the Third Pole, covering 5 million …

Spatially land use models are indispensable for sustainable land use planning. This study
demonstrates a combined Markov–Cellular Automata model to analyze temporal change …

Land cover and its change analysis across the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is
realized as an urgent need to support diverse issues of environmental conservation. This …

Monitoring the impact of current Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) management practices on
future Ecosystem Services (ESs) provisioning has been emphasized because of the effect of …

In modern agriculture, only the cultivation of highly productive and easily accessible slopes
remains profitable. As a consequence, inaccessible and steep areas are being increasingly …

Habitat fragmentation and land conversion by humans for agricultural purposes are constant
threats to conservation of biodiversity in the Cerrado biome. These landscapes dominated …

Nepal is going through a major socio-economic transition in rural areas and hence in forest
management practices, leading to changes in and evolution of new forest-people …