China's urbanization has resulted in significant changes in both agricultural land and
agricultural land use. However, there is limited understanding about the relationship …

The complexity of risks posed by climate change and possible adaptations for crop
production has called for integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) approaches linking …

The impact of globalization on trade, production and land use was key to the Doha
development round. Although many studies have shown the positive influence of …

Frequent human activity and rapid urbanization have led to an assortment of environmental
issues. Monitoring land-cover change is critical to efficient environmental management and …

The environmental and economic sustainability of future cropping systems depends on
adaptation to climate change. Adaptation studies commonly rely on agricultural systems …

We analyze trends in crop yields and yield variability of barley, maize, oats, rye, triticale and
wheat in Switzerland from 1961 to 2006. It shows that there have been linear increases in …

This analysis assesses the impacts of global change on hydrological processes in Alpine
catchments. We applied the regional hydroecological simulation system RHESSys to five …

Dynamic changes of farmland use intensity (FUI) have an important impact on the
sustainable agricultural intensification in developing countries. This study characterizes the …

To offer an increased understanding of the spatial patterns, temporal, social and physical
predictors of the conversion and transformations of land use in Lake Victoria basin, an …

This paper presents a method to downscale aggregated land use data based on statistical
techniques. A purely spatial multinomial logistic regression (MNLR) model is proposed …