... villages or along canals or roads LAND COVER CHANGES IN CAI NUOC 527 3.6 LandCover Changes From 1968 to 2003, the Cai Nuoc district underwent serious changes in landcover (Table I) While agricultural ... between 1968 and 2003 New land is covered by mangrove Between 1968 and 2003, the area occupied by villages increased from 7.99 to 302.99 Figure Changes in landcover of the major landcover groups ... 1968 and 2003, 15 different landcover categories were identified for the Cai Nuoc district The total area (ha) and the landcover percentages fluctuated quite considerable 524 BINH ET AL LAND COVER...
... settlement, the landcover now is not only naturally but also artificially In addition, the process of land use change causes the change in landcover Therefore landcover also describes how land has ... sustainable landscape, simulating scenario of landcover changes and estimating the carbon storage in landcover which in turn mapping the carbon dioxide emission from change of landcover (World ... M.C., and Ramankutty, N (2012) Carbon emissions from land use andlandcoverchange Biogeosciences, 9(12), pp 5125-5142 Kalnay, E and Cai, M (2003) Impact of urbanization and land- use change...
... 1990s land rights and security Tenure lengths were extended to 20 years for an nual cropland and 50 years for perennial cropland Households were al lowed to rent out and mortgage their landand ... Growth, andPoverty David Dollar 29 The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam John Luke Gallup 53 Household Enterprises in Vietnam: Survival, Growth, and Living Standards Wim P M Vijverberg and ... Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam WORLD BANK REGIONAL AND SECTORAL STUDIES Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam Edited...
... of total terrestrial land area in each ecoregion My definition of human-modified landcover includes cultivated and managed land, cropland mosaics, and artificial surfaces and associated areas ... to 2050 Lee and Jetz (2008) classified transformation from natural- to humaninduced landcover types as land- use-driven (e.g., pristine forest converted to agricultural land) , andchange from ... [OS], and TechnoGarden [TG]) Land- cover projections in the MEA were made based on the IMAGE v 2.2 model (Image-Team 2001), which provided current and projected areal distributions for 18 land- cover...
... Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Cape Floristic Region, Succulent Karoo, Maputaland-PondolandAlbany Cape Floristic Region, Succulent Karoo, Maputaland-PondolandAlbany Sundaland Western Ghats and Sri ... Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Sundaland Himalaya, Indo-Burma Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Sudanian savannas East African Moorlands Arabian Highlands woodlands and ... Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Hengduan Shan conifer forests Middle Asian montane woodlands and steppe Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean...
... published literature, and legal and policy documentation in relation to changes in lagoon’s resource management policy, aquaculture development activities under land policy and globalization of ... edible seaweeds and farm on the sandy land at its edge The area used for food production is 269 hectares, of which 220 hectares are planted spring paddy crop (from December to April) and 49 hectares ... utilization and management We used software tools such as Mapinfo 8.5 and Excel in order to modify maps and reckon the surveyed data And we also used the comparative method to collate Viet Nam standards...
... the term land use andlandcoverchange (LULCC) identifies all kinds of human modification of the Earth’s surface Landcover refers to the physical and biological cover over the surface of land, including ... term land use /cover will be used chiefly in this thesis, referring to the landcoverand the actual land use 2.3 Land Use /Cover Change Causes and Consequences LUCC can occur through the direct and ... Driving Forces of the Land Use /Cover Changes 2.5 Land Use /Cover Change Simulation 2.6 Land Use Change Trend 2.7 Predicting Future Land Use Patterns ...
... focuses on the impacts of human and institutional agents on spatiotemporal patterns of land use andlandcoverchangeand the impacts of land use andlandcoverchange on biological phenomena ... variety and commonality of data sources, methods, and issues faced when studying and developing understanding of land use changeLand use andlandcoverchange reflect a variety of environmental and ... land use, as well as the role and importance of land use, land use change, andland management and policy, and the importance of land use for sustainability.2 Land use is also considered a central...
... 42 Croissant, C Landscape patterns and parcel boundaries: An analysis of composition and configuration of land use andlandcover in south-central Indiana Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment ... the city of Rome Landscape and Urban Planning 65, 41–52, 2003 41 Krause, C L Our visual landscape: managing the landscape under special consideration of visual aspects Landscape and Urban Planning ... location of behaviors and recorded preferences in relation to land use patterns and changes, and temporally in the sense that t rajectories in opinion and behavior lead to land use change Social systems...
... periodicities of landscape drivers and change, which are important enough in any given landscape, and how then to best define a temporal landscape scale 6.1.2 FROM PATTERN AND STRUCTURE TO PROCESS AND FUNCTION ... LULC and NDVI variation in Nang Rong District, Northeast Thailand Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 85, 47–64, 2001 19 Walsh, S J et al Patterns of change in land use, land cover, and plant ... situation for landscape assessment, and disentangling these types of landscape change is critical for extracting a better understanding of process and function from pattern Temporally, landscapes...
... Brown, D G., et al Modeling land use andlandcoverchange In: Gutman, G et al., eds., LandChange Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface ... 132.) around year 2000 1,450 80 Urban Land- Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking –180 80 142 Land Use Change The usefulness of an urban land use change model is judged in connection ... Policy-relevant land use change models may target a variety of types, levels, and stages of policy-making activity that heavily influences observed land use patterns Some facets of urban land use change...
... to landscape change, the Landscape Design Research Framework.9 All of these frameworks seek interdisciplinary definition and focus on key questions within the broad scope of land use changeand ... maximization of land rent This is one of the main issues for analysis of coupled human environment systems: is economic return a fully adequate driver for land use changeand consequent landcoverchange ... optimisation Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 104, 691–716, 2000 28 Verberg, P H Simulating feedbacks in land use andlandcoverchange models Landscape Ecology 21, 1171–1183, 2006 29...
... Discontinuous growth increments and wounds formed in 1982 and 1986 (arrows) Scale bars in A, B, C and D are 4, 4, 0.1 and mm, respectively than at 60 cm above and below the swelling level (23.5 ± 1.7 and ... radial growth to monthly climate To minimize the influence of size and age and to underscore the climatic influence on radial growth, the raw data of tree-ring widths were standardised and detrended ... presented as 1, and corresponding to α = 0.1, 0.05 and 0.01, respectively The signs + and - indicate positive and negative relationships, respectively Radial -growth loss1 Radial growth of asymptomatic...
... what happens when those activities changeand threaten contemporary ecological relations? By reviewing land use practices in Qatar, where dramatic and rapid social change has occurred, we query the ... parts of Europe; national parks in England, for instance (designated in 1949 - [16]), often include substantial human settlement and resource use, and the land remains largely in private ownership ... subsidised fodder and water supplies and permit controls promoting environmentally damaging changes in traditional communal land management strategies Sillitoe et al Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine...
... fields, and rangelands are of significant conservational and historical value In some parts of the world, however, highland management had no tradition (e.g., New Zealand and Australia), and when ... November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Land Use Changeand Mountain Biodiversity FIGURE 1.1 Fingerprints of millennia of land use in the highlands Examples of anthropogenic grassland from (a) Bolivian altiplano, ... grazing lands in Ethiopia, East African highlands Mount Res Dev 23: 156–160 Tappeiner, U., Cernusca, A (1998) Effects of landuse changes in the Alps on exchange processes (CO2, H2O) in grassland...