Historical land use reconstruction for South Asia: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

S Li, F He, X Liu, L Hua - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
To deal with global warming and biodiversity loss, historical land use in South Asia received
wide attention because of its huge population and rich biodiversity. We reviewed …

Land use policies in Nepal: An overview

P Nepal, NR Khanal, Y Zhang… - Land Degradation & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Land degradation due to change in land use and land cover (LULC) is one of the most
serious global environmental problems. Public policies are important drivers of LULC …

Farmers' understanding of climate change in Nepal Himalayas: important determinants and implications for developing adaptation strategies

B Paudel, Y Zhang, J Yan, R Rai, L Li, X Wu… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Climate change affects the livelihood of farmers in a variety of ways. Farmers' indigenous
knowledge influences their perception of climate-related issues. A perception-based, semi …

Farmers' perceptions of agricultural land use changes in Nepal and their major drivers

B Paudel, Y Zhang, J Yan, R Rai, L Li - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Historical trends show that the total area of agricultural land in Nepal has changed markedly
over time, but few studies have addressed the causative drivers underlying this change …

Seasonal variation and crop diversity shape the composition of bird communities in agricultural landscapes in Nepal

HB Katuwal, J Rai, K Tomlinson, B Rimal… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Farmland birds are declining globally due to anthropogenic activities, with particularly few
studies in Asian agricultural landscapes. Various studies have examined the impacts of …

Reconstructing Taiwan's land cover changes between 1904 and 2015 from historical maps and satellite images

YY Chen, W Huang, WH Wang, JY Juang, JS Hong… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
A new reconstruction of changes in Taiwan's land cover and estimated uncertainty between
1904 and 2015 is presented. The reconstruction is made by integrating geographical …

Quantifying the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and hazard and risk area identification in the Kaski District of Nepal

B Rimal, L Zhang, H Keshtkar, X Sun, S Rijal - Land, 2018 - mdpi.com
The present study utilized time-series Landsat images to explore the spatiotemporal
dynamics of urbanization and land use/land-cover (LULC) change in the Kaski District of …

Conservation agriculture for food security and climate resilience in Nepal

DR Joshi, R Ghimire, T Kharel, U Mishra… - Agronomy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations requires innovations in
agriculture and development of climate‐smart and economically feasible approaches for …

Comparison of the HYDE cropland data over the past millennium with regional historical evidence from Germany

D Zhang, X Fang, LE Yang - Regional Environmental Change, 2021 - Springer
Historical land cover data are the basis of quantifying the environmental effects of land use
and land cover change (LUCC), and a lower deviation is expected when they are used to …

Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal

K Bhattarai, D Conway - Springer. DOI, 2021 - Springer
Nepal has been identified as the fourth most vulnerable nation to climate change in the
world. It faces complex environmental problems that are differentiated further by topography …