agricultural land conversion (alc) has been introduced as one of the most important factorsaffecting ecosystem. this type of conversion has led to several challenges in agricultural development andhuman life. monitoring alc plays a crucial role when dealing with such challenges. the main objective of thisstudywas to monitor the trend ofalc in theqazvin province located in northwest iran from 19...

prediction of climatic variables on a local scale by general circulation models of the atmosphere is impossible because the models have large-scale network of resolution. therefore, downscaling methods are used to solve this problem. since the climate change phenomenon can affect different systems such as, water resources, agriculture, environment, industry and economy as well, selection of the...

Climate change and invasive species are often treated as important, but independent, issues. Nevertheless, they have strong connections: changes in climate and societal responses to climate change may exacerbate the impacts of invasive species, whereas invasive species may affect the magnitude, rate, and impact of climate change. We argue that the design and implementation of climate-change pol...

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This paper investigates the impact of climate change on the chosen destinations of British tourists. Destinations are characterised in terms of ‘attractors’ including climate variables, travel and accommodation costs. These and other variables are used to explain the current observed pattern of overseas travel in terms of a model based upon the idea of utility maximisation. The approach permits...

The aim of this study is investigation of climate change impact on Karoon3 basin in future periods. For this purpose, the simulated precipitation and potential evapotranspirationof four AOGCM models was used to simulate drought index. Monthly precipitation was calculated by inverse distance weighted method. Reclamation Drought Index (RDI) was used as watershed drought index. RDI was calculated ...

the projected rainfall change under various scenarios is likely to have both positive and negative implications on agriculture and water supply because in rainfall pattern across the country. rise in rainfall is seen over all states except punjab, rajasthan and tamil nadu, which show slight decrease in precipitation in the future scenarios. marked increase in covering the western ghats and nort...