Many small-scale private forest owners increasingly focus their management on amenity functions rather than on wood production functions. This paradigm shift is an opportunity to implement novel forestry management approaches, such as forested land zoning. Forest zoning consists in separating the land base in three zones that have different management objectives: (1) conservation zones; (2) eco...

Carbon storage plays an important role in the global carbon cycle and climate change mitigation. Understanding relationship between land use can significantly contribute to neutrality sustainable development. However, most previous studies only analyze due change, while few quantitatively evaluate contributions of various transitions (LUTs) which cannot provide enough information for management...

The National Agricultural Statistics Service, the statistical arm of US Department Agriculture, and Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium, a group federal agencies, collect publish several land-use land-cover data sets. aim this study is to analyze consistency forestland estimates based on two widely used, publicly available products: Land-Cover Database (NLCD) Cropland Data Layer (C...

The formalization of rural people’s rights to agricultural and forest land is a key policy focus for many developing countries (Larson et al. 2010; Deininger and Hilhorst 2013). These reforms can improve marginalized people’s wellbeing by securing their hold on durable income-yielding assets, especially where land ownership is culturally prized (Holden et al. 2013; Lawry et al. 2014). However, ...

The changes of natural habitat structure and function due to human interference is hastening worldwide, it compulsory preserve biological resources in a protected system. This study aims measure the landscape ecological extent fragmentation Bale mountains national park. land use/land cover change was determined by interpreting 1985, 1995, 2005 2017 Landsat images with ArcGIS 10.3, selected stru...