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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In this research work, a multi-index-based support vector machine (SVM) classification approach has been proposed to determine the complex and morphologically …
Concerns about global environmental change challenge long term ecological research (LTER) to go beyond traditional disciplinary scientific research to produce knowledge that …
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 …
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 …