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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Land Use and Land Cover Changes"”.
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Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
… depreciation of its stocks of natural capital and produced capital. Thus, these indicators allow trade-offs where, for example, natural capital might be depreciated in order to build up other forms of capital, such as in the built environment or in the form of human capital. As an application …
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Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Changes, and Climate Variability on Hydrology and Soil Erosion in the Upper Ruvu Watershed, Tanzania
Land alterations including deforestation, unsustainable land management practices and an increase in cultivated areas have occurred in the Upper Ruvu watershed in recent decades threatening water and natural resources. This study, which used a combination of remote sensing techniques, field …
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Changing Land Use in the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Case Study of Southwest Grand Forks
<p>Between 1954 and 1980 significant changes took place in southwest Grand Forks. The predominant land use in 1954 was cultivated cropland, which covered 80.5 percent of the total study area. By 1980 cropland had declined to 26.7 percent of the total, with urban land uses such as single family …
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A model for generating object-based change information from multi-temporal remotely-sensed imagery
… Tools such as remote sensing have been widely used by researchers to monitor urban areas for applications such as land use and land cover changes and population distribution to name a few. Air- and space-borne sensors with fine spatio-temporal resolutions have facilitated these analyses, …
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Sensitivity of Precipitation to Land-use Changes in a Regional Climate Model of West Africa
Limited water resources, climate change and food security needs in West Africa present a special set of challenges in the years to come as the population grows. An optimized irrigation scheme for agriculture can change regional climate by increasing rainfall in specific areas, possibly increasing …
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Intensification of agriculture and livestock based on low carbon technologies in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
The Amazon and the Atlantic Forest are Brazilian biomes that have undergone intense land use and cover changes, marked by the loss of native forest and the expansion of agriculture and livestock. These are areas with potential use for intensification based on low-carbon technologies, but this …
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The seasonal dynamics of Arctic surface hydrology in permafrost environments
Climate-induced landscape evolution is resulting in changes to biogeochemical and hydrologi- cal cycling. In the Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost zones, rising air temperatures are warming, and in some regions even thawing, the frozen ground. Permafrost is a carbon sink. The thermal state of the …
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Analysis of land use and land cover change and its impact on soil erosion in Nzhelele Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Globally, the rate of land use and land cover changes has affeceted the magnitude of soil eroion. Strategies to combat soil erosion can give assistance as solutions to provide food security in many agricultural areas. Although some changes are caused by natural factors, anthropogenic factors and an …
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Impact of climate variability and human activities on water resources.
… (climate change, groundwater dynamics, etc.) and human activities (land-use/land-cover changes, dam construction, etc.) interact and affect the hydrological regime in some selected basins in the semi-arid region of southeastern Spain. To conduct a comprehensive causal analysis, this PhD Thesis …
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Urban Households' Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… society is a recurrent issue among scholars and policy makers in the 21st century. While the literature is replete with theoretical discussion and empirical analysis, particularly studies focusing on the major cities of developed economies, there is dearth of empirical studies on the cities …