The potential impact of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon on greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere calls for policies that take account of changes in forest cover. Although much research has focused on the location and effects of deforestation, little is known about the distribution and reasons for the agricultural uses that replace forest cover. We used Landsat TM-based deforestation ...

introduction: heavy metals are found to be one of the major environmental hazardous contaminants, for human health, animal life, air quality and other components of environment. they can affect geochemical cycles and accumulate in animal tissues since physical processes are not able to remove them, so they are consistent in long term. the analysis of the total concentration of heavy metals in s...

landsat data for 1992, 2000, and 2013 land use changes for ekbatan dam watershed was simulated through ca-markov” model. two classification methods were initially used, viz. the maximum likelihood (mal) and support vector machine (svm). although both methods showed high overall accuracy and kappa coefficient, visually mal failed in separating land uses, particularly built up and dry lands.there...

1 Land Use Division, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 2 Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, Institute of Land Use Systems, Muencheberg, Germany, 3 Department of Biological Production Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchuu, Japan, 4 Field Science Centre for Education a...

Kline, Jeffrey D.; Alig, Ralph J. 2001. A spatial model of land use change for western Oregon and western Washington. Res. Pap. PNW-RP-528. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 24 p. We developed an empirical model describing the probability that forests and farmland in western Oregon and western Washington were developed for resident...

The objective of this paper is to propose a spatial disaggregation procedure that will be useful in assessing economic and environmental impacts of the last CAP reform of EU agriculture(e.g., the study of water pollution due to agriculture). The proposed disaggregation method uses agricultural data in conjunction with biophysical processes to break down agricultural FADN data available at the r...

Community land trusts are flexible organizations that embrace diverse land uses to address various community needs. While the majority of CLTs currently focus on the development and stewardship of owner-occupied housing, some organizations have broadened their focus to emerging opportunities in non-residential development. The study examines non-residential programs and activities implemented b...