The study of land use transition has generally become an important breakthrough point to
deeply understand the human-land interaction and reveal major socio-economic …

The surface soil and vegetation had been destroyed by opencast mining, leading the
decrease of the vegetation fractional coverage, which caused a severe damage to the …

Intensity Analysis is a mathematical framework that compares a uniform intensity to
observed intensities of temporal changes among categories. Our article summarizes …

In recent decades, the region of Madrid has experienced extensive changes in land use-
land cover (LULC). Most of these changes are related to an increase in developed areas …

This paper examines the size and intensity of changes among five land categories during
the two time intervals in a region of Indonesia that is pioneering negotiations concerning …

Climate change has been most evident since the mid-twentieth century and has caused
unprecedented planetary change. Economically, the agricultural sector may be the most …

Land-use change is becoming an important anthropogenic force in the global climate
system through alteration of the Earth's biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes …

Fire is one of the main disturbance factors shaping the landscape, and landscape is a key
driver of fire behavior. Considering the role played by land use and land cover (LULC) …

The advancing global urbanization puts great pressure on the society and ecosystem,
especially in developing countries. Reasonable land‐use policies adapted to local …

Landscape change is driven by a complex combination of physical, ecological and socio-
cultural drivers. Because of their inherent complexity, integrative strategies that combine …