use cover change simulation geosimulation and multiagent based modelling

... land use/ cover will be used chiefly in this thesis, referring to the land cover and the actual land use 2.3 Land Use/ Cover Change Causes and Consequences LUCC can occur through the direct and indirect ... 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 ... influences and decreases core habitat area 2.3 Land Use/ Cover Change Causes and Consequences 11 2.3.2 Climate Change Land use and cover change matters play a significant role in climate change at...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 23:49

... YNAMICS Of CHANGE IN SPACE AND TIME D Land use and land cover changes are inherently spatial and dynamic The magnitude and impact of changes in land use and land cover are such that land use change ... initiatives on land use and land cover change in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and he is initiating work on land use and land cover change in forest lands in Texas He received his BSc in geography and geology ... His research focuses on the impacts of human and institutional agents on spatiotemporal patterns of land use and land cover change and the impacts of land use and land cover change on biological...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 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 ... Croissant, C Landscape patterns and parcel boundaries: An analysis of composition and configuration of land use and land cover in south-central Indiana Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment ... with individual behaviors in urban and densely populated system problems25 as well as land cover change problems26 and technology diffusion and resource use change. 27 They may also be applied...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... conditions and land manager perceptions, values, and practices 3.2  MAPPING CHANGE IN LAND USE AT A REGIONAL SCALE 3.2.1  HY UNDERSTANDING LAND USE CHANGE IS IMPORTANT W A capacity for detecting and ... a Regional Scale 45 3.2.1 Why Understanding Land Use Change Is Important .46 3.2.2 Types of Land Use Change .46 3.2.3 Changes in Land Use in the Lower Murray Region 46 Mapping ... salinity, water quality, and soil loss © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 46 Land Use Change 3.2.2  YPES OF LAND USE CHANGE T A particular difficulty with land use change reporting is discriminating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Land use and land cover data for this study come from land use/ cover maps from the Uganda NBS and FAO Africover Although we refer to them as the 1990 and 2000 maps, the satellite images used ... the forest and woodland cover at 45% of the total land cover in 1890 More recent figures have been in the 20% to 25% range Forest and woodland are important because only 3% of Ugandan households ... reasons, that is, land users convert forest to nonforest uses if the new land rent they can get is higher than for forest uses This approach is based on the fact that people and social organizations­...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 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 ... 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 ... Turner, B L., II, eds Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994 Liverman, D et al People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... of land -cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: The Santarém-Cuiabá corridor Global Change Biology 10, 745–764, 2004 34 Bradley, A V Land -Use and Land -Cover Change ... Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001 17 Lambin, E J., Geist, H J., and Lepers, E Dynamics and land -use and land -cover change in tropical regions Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28, 205–241, 2003 18 Alves, ... interview land owners/managers Subsequently those interviewed were selected randomly © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 124 Land Use Change Land cover maps of each community were created using Landsat...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 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 ... Brown, D G., et al Modeling land use and land cover change In: Gutman, G et al., eds., Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... processes in detail and gain a better understanding and capacity to model human and other social and economic processes influencing land use change Using the basic remote sensing and survey data ... 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 change and ... information and understanding of dynamics may be provided by land use change models33 that range from cellular automata types,34 to statistical or simulation models,33 agent -based models,35 and integrated...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/13/1/39 Page of 11 Table Change in barrier method(s) use at last sex, by visit type and by study groups Change in condom use and use of any barrier method at last sex, among ... method used and by visit type Figure 3a Last sex act by barrier method used and by visit type among diaphragm group participants; n = 381 Figure 3b Last sex act by barrier method used and by ... Diaphragm use at last sex (intervention arm)* 369 190 51.5 Diaphragm use at last sex (control arm)* Diaphragm and male condom use at last sex (intervention arm) 210 381 31 123 14.8 32.3 Diaphragm and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Amphetamine abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence Opioid abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence Sedative abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence Other substance abuse/dependence Polysubstance dependence Drug abuse/dependence ... substance use disorders among young adults in Finland (n = 605)a Males Females Total % Any substance* abuse/dependence Alcohol abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence Cannabis abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence ... disorder, and sex on adolescent substance use and abuse Arch Gen Psychiatry 2007, 64:1145-1152 Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Ridder EM: Conduct and attentional problems in childhood and adolescence and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... better understand these enhancements, a numerical simulation project was undertaken and the results of these simulations are presented in this thesis Sentaurus TCAD simulation suite was used for the ... simulation suite was used for the device simulations The simulation physics and models were discussed before some preliminary simulation results were presented The simulation results presented was generally ... separately, thus the effect of change in mobility due to band structure deformation [2] and change in trap concentration [3] were not simulated accordingly For this reason, this simulation could only...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 20:31

... better understand these enhancements, a numerical simulation project was undertaken and the results of these simulations are presented in this thesis Sentaurus TCAD simulation suite was used for the ... simulation suite was used for the device simulations The simulation physics and models were discussed before some preliminary simulation results were presented The simulation results presented was generally ... separately, thus the effect of change in mobility due to band structure deformation [2] and change in trap concentration [3] were not simulated accordingly For this reason, this simulation could only...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:36

... (Atluri and Zhu, 1998, 2000; Atluri and Shen, 2002; Atluri et al., 1999a, b; Gu and Liu GR, 2001a, b) and the family of local point interpolation method (LPIM) (Gu and Liu GR, 2001c; Liu GR and Gu, ... swell and shrink in response to changes in solution pH Later studies include the work of Dusek et al (1968), postulating that the swollen and shrunken phases of hydrogel could coexist and the ... polymer -based microgels is still at beginning stage, since most works are experimental -based Few efforts have been made on the theoretical understanding and model development For example, Varshosaz and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:31

... the process of land use change causes the change in land cover Therefore land cover also describes how land has been used The land cover is defined as the assemblage of biotic and abiotic components ... greatly increased and research on land use/ land cover change thus providing an accurate evaluation of the spread and health of the world’s forest, grassland, and agricultural land use has become ... (2001) The causes of land -use and land -cover change: moving beyond the myths Global environmental change, 11(4), pp 261-269 Mohan, M., Pathan, S K., Narendrareddy, K., Kandya, A., and Pandey, S (2011)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/11/2020, 14:00

... CONTENTS, HANDLE ECDIS DATA ON BOARD AND ASSESS ALL ERRORS, INACCURACIES AND AMBIGUITIES CAUSED BY IMPROPER DATA MANAGEMENT 3.1 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS: Describe the terms and definitions used in ... - LIBRARY OF TEST QUESTIONS FOR USE WITH CBT PACKAGE 48 APPENDIX - STANDARD PORTS AND ROUTE PLANNING AND ROUTE MONITORING EXERCISES 53 2.A ‘STANDARD PORTS’ FOR USE IN THE ‘TRAINING PORTFOLIO’ ... INDICATORS AND ALARMS FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF SITUATION AND TAKE PROPER ACTION 13.1 DEFINITION AND MEANING OF INDICATORS AND ALARMS Outline the definition and meaning of status indications, indicators and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2016, 16:54

... In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and humanmade hazards should be considered and contrasted ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS against climate change and its implications ... institutional support to businesses and households to help them cut down emissions, and integration of both climate change and disaster risk reduction policies into national and international development ... environmental change and climate change are rapidly altering the world’s socio-ecological systems and affecting human populations at multiple scales Important manifestations of these changes are hazard and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... both DRR and CCA (e.g UNISDR Working Group on Climate Change and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Change Center), suggesting that DRR has much to contribute to CCA policy and research (Handmer, ... learning and the social sources of adaptability, renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems ... O’Brien et al., 2006; Schipper and Pelling 2006; Thomalla et al., 2006), that CCA and DRR must to be integrated together into a larger, holistic and systems -based approach, and that CBA techniques could...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... 456 Meyer, W B and Turner, B L., 1992 Human-population growth and global land -use cover change Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23 39–61 Næss, L O., Bang, G., Eriksen, S and Vevatne, J., ... construction Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters and climate change Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance ... Resilience and stability of ecological systems Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, – 23 Huq, S and Klein, R J T., 2003 Adaptation to Climate Change: Why and How SciDev.Net Climate Change Dossier,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... relationships of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... 1.3 hurricane landfalls and zero landfalling intense hurricanes per year The long-term climatology would have suggested 1.5 hurricane landfalls and about 0.6 intense hurricane landfalls To improve...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57