Agricultural land suitability analysis (ALSA) for crop production is one of the key tools for
ensuring sustainable agriculture and for attaining the current global food security goal in line …

The design and implementation of effective environmental policies need to be informed by a
holistic understanding of the system processes (biophysical, social and economic), their …

The “requisition-compensation balance policy” is a basic arable land protection policy
promulgated by the Chinese government to maintain the dynamic balance of the total arable …

Spatially land use models are indispensable for sustainable land use planning. This study
demonstrates a combined Markov–Cellular Automata model to analyze temporal change …

The rapid development of productivity and economy has led to a substantial change in
global land use/land cover (LULC), which has caused a series of environmental problems …

Land use and land cover (LULC) form a baseline thematic map for monitoring, resource
management, and planning activities and facilitate the development of strategies to balance …

China's high-speed economic growth has been characterized by rapid urbanization and a
series of environmental issues. This study investigates the urbanization and eco …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

A comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems over
this century is developed, up to 2080 and at a global level, albeit with significant regional …

Land use change models are tools to support the analysis of the causes and consequences
of land use dynamics. Scenario analysis with land use models can support land use …