Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

Global and regional economic and environmental changes are increasingly influencing local land-use, livelihoods, and ecosystems. At the same time, cumulative local land changes are driving global and regional changes in biodiversity and the environment. To understand the causes and consequences of these changes, land change science (LCS) draws on a wide array synthetic and meta-study techniques...

Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

Land-change science has emerged as a foundational element of global environment change and sustainability science. It seeks to understand the human and environment dynamics that give rise to changed land uses and covers, not only in terms of their type and magnitude but their location as well. This focus requires the integration of social, natural, and geographical information sciences. Each of...

‘ ‘ Land Change Science Special Feature : The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability , ’ ’

PERSPECTIVE. For the article ‘‘Land Change Science Special Feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability,’’ by B. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg, which appeared in issue 52, December 26, 2007, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (104:20666– 20671; first published December 19, 2007; 10.1073 pnas.0704119104), the authors note that, due t...

A Review of Methodological Integration in Land-Use Change Models

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