Land use has become a highly attractive research topic for understanding human–
environment interactions in the Anthropocene [1]. Tremendous changes in population …

Humans carry out fundamental activities like agriculture, mineral extraction, and home
building on land. Through these activities, they inscribe revealing patterns in landscapes …

Land use science can be defined as an inclusive, interdisciplinary subject that focuses on
material related to the nature of land use and land cover, their changes over space and time …

Land use science has traditionally used case-study approaches for in-depth investigation of
land use change processes and impacts. Meta-studies synthesize findings across case …

Research on the determinants of land use change and its relationship to vulnerability
(broadly defined), biotic diversity and ecosystem services (eg Gullison et al. 2007), health …

Changes in the use of land reflect a variety of environmental and social factors,
necessitating an equally varied suite of data to be used for effective analysis. While remote …

Land is critical to society by providing foods, fuel, fibers and many other ecosystem services
that support production functions, regulate risks of natural hazards, or provide cultural and …

The concept of global environmental change evolved from concerns about the sustainability
of the Earth, which is being transformed by human activities at an unprecedented scale and …

Land change science has emerged as a fundamental component of global environmental
change and sustainability research. This interdisciplinary field seeks to understand the …

Human use of the land and oceans is at the center of some of the most complicated and
pressing problems faced by policy makers around the world today (eg, DeFries et al. 2004b; …