Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …

Research practice, funding agencies and global science organizations suggest that
research aimed at addressing sustainability challenges is most effective when 'co …

Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most
recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and …

Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation,
climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we …

Land system science provides a theoretical lens for deepening our understanding of
interactions between social and environmental systems. Synthesis and integration of land …

Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Context A background assumption of landscape approaches is that some landscape
patterns are more sustainable than others, and thus searching for these patterns should be a …

The study of land use transition has generally become an important breakthrough point to
deeply understand the human-land interaction and reveal major socio-economic …

To date land-change science has devoted little attention to spatial policy and planning in
urban landscapes despite the widely accepted premise that planning affects urban land …