[PDF] Top 20 Understanding driving forces and implications associated with the land use and land cover changes in Portugal

... Abstract: Understanding the processes of land use and land cover changes (LUCC) and the associated driving forces is important ... See full document

... analysis and monitoring of land cover changes require a substantial amount of data about the Earth‘s ...updated land use/land cover (LULC) information ... See full document

... many changes in land use over a period of three decades in a salinity affected semi-arid region of coastal Saurashtra in ...scarcity and quality issues, efforts have been ... See full document

... included in models. This variable represents land management under montado cover promoting pas- ture, crops, and/or fallow land associated with livestock ...production. ... See full document

... nature and biodiversity protection by reducing land fragmentation and support several ecosystems services (European Environment Agency ...climate-friendly in terms of land use as ... See full document

... particularly the movement of residential and commercial land use to rural areas at the periphery of metropolitan areas, has long been considered as a sign of regional economic vitality ... See full document

... Second, the expansion of urbanization and new housing developments have had a strong impact on LULC change since the ...1970s. In particular, urban sprawl in the most densely ... See full document

... relevant land use and land cover changes (LUCC) in recent ...decades. The revision of existing land use and land cover (LUC) ... See full document

... fact, the economic and urban development over last decades in the district has influenced land resource demands and land concession widely, which is also causing a problem ... See full document

... compound the basin. The results showed that the greatest water user grant has industrial purpose, with underground extraction massively than the superficial, where the palm oil ... See full document

... analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix in South ...expansion changes deforestation dynamics ... See full document

... to the rivers, which was already expected, due to the conservation of riparian ...However, the increase of dirty pasture showed the presence of cattle ranching, maybe caused by the need ... See full document

... Firstly the global land cover data sets are cropped into official Continental Portugal borders using the administrative borders of 2015 provided by official Portuguese institute ... See full document

... of the variance in the nitrogen losses was explained by carbon losses ...carbon and nitrogen (McGill et al., 1975). There are several studies at the plot level showing that ... See full document

... Today the increased dissemination and utilization of geographic data is the result of an unprecedented growth on the geospatial technologies- referring the three sciences- Global ... See full document

... analyze the land use and land cover changes and to model the changes for the case study area Malatya, ...Turkey. The first step of ... See full document

... exist in the TCMA (bogs, deep marsh, seasonally flooded basin, shallow marsh, shallow open water, shrub swamp, wet meadow, and wooded swamp) were extracted and used as a wetland ...from ... See full document

... ulations. The simulations based on the current surface conditions are able to reproduce the observed trend in Red flood occurrence and intensity since the ...verified with ... See full document

... especially in forest and agricultural areas, a fact that could have an impact on the landslide susceptibility zonation of the study ...This in- ventorying method does not allow for ... See full document

... from the Landsat image show a significant potential to help in the identification and delimitation of anthropic and natural features in the Amazon- Cerrado transition ... See full document