A ca. 1980 national-scale land-cover classification based on aerial photo interpretation was combined with 2000 AVHRR satellite imagery to derive land cover and land-cover change information for forest, urban, and agriculture categories over a seven-state region in the U.S. To derive useful land-cover change data using a heterogeneous dataset and to validate our results, we a) stratified the cl...

TERESA SERRA, DAVID ZILBERMAN, JOSÉ M. GIL, AND ALLEN FEATHERSTONE* ________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The purpose of this article is to study the impact of agricultural policy decoupling on land allocation decisions. Our analysis contributes to the literature by formally assessing the effects of decoupling on farms’ crop mix and on the decision to...

Food security covers aspects at all spatial levels from local to global and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. This book aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socioeconomic, political, technological, and institutional drivers, costs, and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors inc...

BACKGROUND Land use and land cover change occurring in tropical forest landscapes contributes substantially to carbon emissions. Better insights into the spatial variation of aboveground biomass is therefore needed. By means of multiple statistical tests, including geographically weighted regression, we analysed the effects of eight variables on the regional spatial variation of aboveground bio...

CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. Abstract: Southeastern and southwestern Australia have quasiand classical-Mediterranean climates respectively. Vegetation varies widely from forests to woodlands to shrublands. Attitudes to landscape have been important in allocating land use in these areas with a general contrast between what is "practical"...

Few land-allocation models consider the impact of off-farm income on tropical deforestation. We provide a concept to integrate in mechanistic multiple-objective model, while distinguishing between farms with and without re-allocation on-farm labor obtain income. On we found that reduced farmers’ financial dependency deforestation-related agricultural leading less The influence covered two aspec...

The aim of this study is to develop a new approach for delineating urban growth boundaries (UGBs) by applying the weight of evidence (WOE) method to land suitability assessments. Rapid urbanization is causing urban areas to encroach on agricultural land in China, posing a threat to national food security. Land use planning with clear delineation of UGBs is an effective method for controlling ur...

This project analyzes the impact of land titling on child health and education. The empirical evaluation of the effect of land property rights typically suffers from selection problems. The allocation of property rights across households is usually not random but based on wealth, family characteristics, political clientelism, or other mechanisms built on differences between the groups that acqu...