The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

By Eric F. Lambin, Billie L. Turner II, H. Geist, S. B. Agbola, A. Angelsen, J. W. Bruce, Oliver T. Coomes, R. Dirzo, Günther W. Fischer, Carl Folke and 16 more. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review (2008, background): “Assessing and monitoring the state of the earth surface is a key requirement for global change research (Committee on Global Change Research, National Research Council, 1999; Jung et al. 2006; Lambin et al. 2001).”
Land-Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science (2008, background): “These factors are connected to distal ones largely through the narrative, either by providing the characteristics of the political economy in which the proximate factors operate (103) or by specifying the proposed steps or networks of processes operating from the local to global scale (95, 105).”
Conservation planning in a changing world. (2007, background): “Planning for dynamic threats Threats to biodiversity can be categorized as either ultimate or proximate [7, 45 ].”
Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes (2007, background): “The ecological causes and effects of such landscape transformations are increasingly well understood and documented, especially with regard to deforestation and desertification in developing regions (Lambin et al., 2001; Perrings and Gadgil, 2003).”
Land use change modelling: current practice and research priorities (2004, background): “…large volume of recent papers referred to in this study, the multitude of new models and the growing group of researchers gathered in the Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC; Lambin et al. 2001) research community indicates that large investments are being made to improve land use change models.”
Multiple effects of urbanization on the biodiversity of developing countries: the case of a fast-growing metropolitan area (Concepción, Chile). (2006, background): “However, urbanization appears to be having different effects on the biota of developed and developing countries (Lambin et al., 2001).”
Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) Change Detection in Wami River Basin, Tanzania (2019, background): “Increasing anthropogenic activities around the biosphere are causing large-scale alterations of the Earth’s land surface, which affect the effectiveness of global systems [3].”
Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge (2016, background): “It is also of fundamental importance to strengthen collaboration between researchers, policy-makers and farmers in order to implement sustainable practices that are feasible and viable [6,7,37,71,80,83,101,214].”