… -basedresearch on land-use/land-cover change requires a … of local-scale land-use change
studies,conducted over a range … an explanation and prediction of new land-use changes. …

… of key processes in land use changes. Land-use change models should represent part of
the complexity of land use systems. They offer the possibility to test the sensitivity of …

… relative to rapid changes in land use and land cover that affect … land-use change on the
global environment. Central to this discussion are three questions: * How are land-use changes …

… of land use in considering climate change impacts. The purpose of this paper is to review
current practice in assessing and modeling land-use change as it relates to climate change …

… factors, drive land-cover changes. Opportunities and constraints for new land uses are created
by … Global forces become the main determinants of land-use change, as they amplify or …

… Although changes in land use may have been relatively small before the start of settled
agriculture some 10,000 years ago, until the last four or five thousand years changes in climate …

… , but land cover may change even if the land use remains unaltered. A forest … of land use
and land cover are connected, in the terminology we adopt, by the proximate sources of change: …

… definitions of the principal terms land, land use and land use change. Definitions and
descriptions of these terms vary with the purpose of the application and the context of their use. It is, …

… Such changes in land use have enabled humans to appropriate an increasing share of the
planet's resources, but they also potentially undermine the capacity of ecosystems to sustain …

… Land use science is now at a crucial juncture in its maturation process. Much has been learned,
but the array of factors influencing land use change, … in land cover and land use change. …