Since the turn of the new millennium, the Chinese central government has focused
significant attention on substantially improving rural residents' well-being and achieving the …

Land cover and its configuration in the landscape are crucial components in the provision of
biodiversity and ecosystem services. In Mediterranean regions, natural landscapes mostly …

Land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) change is one of the largest drivers of biodiversity loss
and carbon emissions globally. We use the tropical rainforests of the Amazon, the Congo …

Geodiversity is the variety of earth materials, forms and processes that constitute and shape
the Earth planet. Therefore, geodiversity includes essential for developing nature-based …

Land cover transformations throughout the Amazon basin have significantly intensified in
recent decades due to increased human activity. Using a land change science approach …

Pakistan has an annual deforestation rate of 4.6% which is the second highest in Asia. It has
been described by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that the deforestation rate …

Effective agricultural practices can enable and sustain rural livelihoods, particularly in
rapidly developing and transforming areas such as the Chinese Loess Plateau. Drawing …

In the megadiverse tropical mountain forest in the Andes of southern Ecuador, a global
biodiversity hotspot, the use of fire to clear land for cattle ranching is leading to the invasion …

Very little research has considered the underlying drivers of land cover change in Caribbean
islands, particularly in those islands that are still experiencing a net loss of forest cover. We …

District Swat is a part of the high altitude Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region of Pakistan
comprising a diverse set of biophysical, ecological and socio-economic characteristics …