Land use change models are tools to support the analysis of the causes and consequences
of land use dynamics. Scenario analysis with land use models can support land use …

Nutrient balances are useful tools as indicators of potential land degradation and for
optimizing nutrient use, and are thus highly relevant in the African context. A comprehensive …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Despite research that has been conducted elsewhere, little is known, to-date, about land
cover dynamics and their impacts on land surface temperature (LST) in fast growing mega …

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 …

This paper applies methods of multiple resolution map comparison to quantify
characteristics for 13 applications of 9 different popular peer-reviewed land change models …

This paper explores potential future land use/cover (LUC) dynamics in the Attica region,
Greece, under three distinct economic performance scenarios. During the last decades …

This study applied logistic regression to model urban growth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
of Georgia in a GIS environment and to discover the relationship between urban growth and …

Urban expansion has been a hot topic not only in the management of sustainable
development but also in the fields of remote sensing and geographic information science …

In tropical Latin America, pasture land for extensive grazing continues to expand, mostly at
the expense of forest cover. Until now, scientists and policy makers tackling this issue had …