Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation

BE Robinson, MB Holland… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political
factors. Many assume that among the most important of these are the particular bundles of …

Does the Sahelian smallholder's management of woodland, farm trees, rangeland support the hypothesis of human-induced desertification?

M Mortimore, B Turner - Journal of Arid Environments, 2005 - Elsevier
A simple theory of 'desertification'is found inadequate for understanding the complexity,
diverse patterns and flexibility of farmers' responses to change in environmental conditions …

Farmers' perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies in rural Sahel

O Mertz, C Mbow, A Reenberg, A Diouf - Environmental management, 2009 - Springer
Farmers in the Sahel have always been facing climatic variability at intra-and inter-annual
and decadal time scales. While coping and adaptation strategies have traditionally included …

Assessing driving forces of land use and land cover change by a mixed-method approach in north-eastern Ghana, West Africa

J Kleemann, G Baysal, HNN Bulley, C Fürst - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is the result of complex human-environmental
interactions. The high interdependencies in social-ecological systems make it difficult to …

Historical patterns and drivers of landscape change in Colombia since 1500: a regionalized spatial approach

A Etter, C McAlpine, H Possingham - Annals of the Association of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The extent and the spatial patterns of landscape transformation we observe today are the
result of the historic human settlement process, often dating back hundreds or thousands of …

Separating built-up areas from bare land in mediterranean cities using Sentinel-2A imagery

P Ettehadi Osgouei, S Kaya, E Sertel, U Alganci - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this research work, a multi-index-based support vector machine (SVM) classification
approach has been proposed to determine the complex and morphologically …

From LTER to LTSER: conceptualizing the socioeconomic dimension of long-term socioecological research

H Haberl, V Winiwarter, K Andersson, RU Ayres… - Ecology and society, 2006 - JSTOR
Concerns about global environmental change challenge long term ecological research
(LTER) to go beyond traditional disciplinary scientific research to produce knowledge that …

Scenario modelling of land use/land cover changes in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands

M Kindu, T Schneider, M Döllerer, D Teketay… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Models under a set of scenarios are used to simulate and improve our
understanding of land use/land cover (LULC) changes, which is central for sustainable …

生态足迹方法及研究进展

刘淼, 胡远满, 李月辉, 常禹, 张薇 - 生态学杂志, 2006 - cje.net.cn
本文介绍了生态足迹的计算方法, 回顾了国内外的研究进展, 重点介绍了生态足迹计算中能源
足迹算法的研究进展. 目前, 国外对生态足迹的研究集中在对长时间序列计算分析和计算方法的 …

Drought vulnerability drives land-use and land cover changes in the Rift Valley dry lands of Ethiopia

B Biazin, G Sterk - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2013 - Elsevier
The Ethiopian Rift Valley is a dry land zone where for a long time pastoral communities have
made their living from acacia-based woodlands. But many pastoralists have changed from a …