Land  

Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim Abdi and Mine Islar

Agriculture and rural life in the Middle East have gone through several changes in the past few decades. The region is characterized by high population growth, urbanization, and water scarcity, which poses a challenge to maintaining food security and prod... see more

Russell A. Parsons, Rodman R. Linn, Francois Pimont, Chad Hoffman, Jeremy Sauer, Judith Winterkamp, Carolyn H. Sieg and W. Matt Jolly

Landscape heterogeneity shapes species distributions, interactions, and fluctuations. Historically, in dry forest ecosystems, low canopy cover and heterogeneous fuel patterns often moderated disturbances like fire. Over the last century, however, increase... see more

Bhagawat Rimal, Lifu Zhang, Dongjie Fu, Ripu Kunwar and Yongguang Zhai

The exodus of people from rural areas to cities brings many detrimental environmental, social and cultural consequences. Monitoring spatiotemporal change by referencing the historical timeline or incidence has become an important way to analyze urbanizati... see more

Jeffrey Sayer and Chris Margules

Decentralizing natural resource management to local people, especially in tropical countries, has become a trend. We review recent evidence for the impacts of decentralization on the biodiversity values of forests and forested landscapes, which encompass ... see more

Giorgos Papantoniou and Athanasios K. Vionis

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Richa Bhattarai, Haireti Alifu, Aikebaier Maitiniyazi and Akihiko Kondoh

Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) is a remote sensing technique that is capable of detecting land surface deformation with centimeter accuracy. In this research, this technique was applied to two pairs of Advanced Land Observin... see more

Azad Rasul, Heiko Balzter, Claire Smith, John Remedios, Bashir Adamu, José A. Sobrino, Manat Srivanit and Qihao Weng

The variation between land surface temperature (LST) within a city and its surrounding area is a result of variations in surface cover, thermal capacity and three-dimensional geometry. The objective of this research is to review the state of knowledge and... see more

Nicholas K. Tagliarino

The challenges associated with determining fair compensation for expropriated land have been extensively discussed and debated among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. However, to date, a comprehensive study of national-level compensat... see more

Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, Adel S. Aldosary and Md. Golam Mortoja

Over the past several decades, Saudi cities have experienced rapid urban developments and land use and land cover (LULC) changes. These developments will have numerous short- and long-term consequences including increasing the land surface temperature (LS... see more

R. Travis Belote and G. Hugh Irwin

Conservation scientists recognize that additional protected areas are needed to maintain biological diversity and ecological processes. As regional conservation planners embark on recommending additional areas for protection in formal ecological reserves,... see more

Ioannis Manakos, Christina Karakizi, Ioannis Gkinis and Konstantinos Karantzalos

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Dainee M. Gibson and John E. Quinn

Complexities in the rates and patterns of change necessitate the consideration of alternate futures in planning processes. These scenarios, and the inputs and assumptions used to build them, should reflect both ecological and social contexts. Considering ... see more

Michael R. Coughlan, Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman and Ashley E. Block

Processes of land degradation and regeneration display fine scale heterogeneity often intimately linked with land use. Yet, examinations of the relationships between land use and land degradation often lack the resolution necessary to understand how local... see more

Nathan F. Sayre, Diana K. Davis, Brandon Bestelmeyer and Jeb C. Williamson

Defining rangelands as anthromes enabled Ellis and Ramankutty (2008) to conclude that more than three-quarters of Earth’s land is anthropogenic; without rangelands, this figure would have been less than half. They classified all lands grazed by domestic l... see more

Guoliang Zhao, Xinqi Zheng, Zhiyuan Yuan and Lulu Zhang

Urban expansion has become a widespread trend in developing countries. Road networks are an extremely important factor driving the expansion of urban land and require further study. To investigate the relationship between road networks and urban expansion... see more

Roy E. Petrakis, Willem J.D. Van Leeuwen, Miguel L. Villarreal, Paul Tashjian, Regina Dello Russo and Christopher A. Scott

Riparian ecosystems are valuable to the ecological and human communities that depend on them. Over the past century, they have been subject to shifting management practices to maximize human use and ecosystem services, creating a complex relationship betw... see more

Suranga Wadduwage, Andrew Millington, Neville D. Crossman and Harpinder Sandhu

One of the major consequences of expansive urban growth is the degradation and loss of productive agricultural land and agroecosystem functions. Four landscape metrics—Percentage of Land (PLAND), Mean Parcel Size (MPS), Parcel Density (PD), and Modified S... see more

Somajita Paul and Harini Nagendra

Urban green spaces provide important recreational, social and psychological benefits to stressed city residents. This paper aims to understand the importance of parks for visitors. We focus on Delhi, the world’s second most populous city, drawing on 123 i... see more

Kotaro Iizuka, Brian A. Johnson, Akio Onishi, Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog, Isao Endo and Milben Bragais

This study uses a spatially-explicit land-use/land-cover (LULC) modeling approach to model and map the future (2016–2030) LULC of the area surrounding the Laguna de Bay of Philippines under three different scenarios: ‘business-as-usual’, ‘compact developm... see more

Monika Kopecká, Daniel Szatmári and Konštantín Rosina

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Susan D. Kocher and Van Butsic

Wildfire is a natural part of forested Mediterranean systems. As humans continue to live and build housing in these areas, wildfire is a constant threat to homes and lives. The goal of this paper is to describe aspects of land-use planning that are used t... see more

Chittana Phompila, Megan Lewis, Bertram Ostendorf and Kenneth Clarke

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has been experiencing significant forest depletion since the 1980s, but there is little evidence to demonstrate the major causes and underlying drivers for the forest cover changes. In this study, we investigated the... see more

John Terborgh and Carlos A. Peres

Community-managed reserves (CMRs) comprise the fastest-growing category of protected areas throughout the tropics. CMRs represent a compromise between advocates of nature conservation and advocates of human development. We ask whether CMRs succeed in achi... see more