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... An increase in shrubs or woody species is likely, directly or indirectly, to significantly affect rural livelihoods, wildlife/livestock productivity and conservation efforts. Poor and inappropriate land use management practices have resulted in rangeland degradation, particularly in semi-arid regions, and this has amplified the bush encroachment rate in many African countries, particularly in key ...
landuseplanning, etc ; case studies; ecological restoration; ecosystem services; ecosystems; forests; social welfare; soil erosion; stakeholders; water yield; watersheds; China; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Considering that the degradation of ecological systems is an urgent environmental challenge, promoting multiple ecosystem services (ES) through ecological restoration has recently become more critical. However, the complicated interactions among multiple ES are not fully considered in ecological restoration planning and management, which prevents simultaneous improvements to environmental and huma ...
landuseplanning, etc ; ecosystem management; ecosystems; geography; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The trade-offs and supply-demand relations of ecosystem services (ES) are at the frontier of geographical and ecological studies. However, previous studies have focused on either trade-offs or the supply-demand aspects, while ES conflicts and supply/demand contradictions have not been comprehensively examined. The relationship between ES trade-offs and supply-demand is logically valid and studying ...
landuseplanning, etc ; case studies; ecosystem services; ecosystems; environment; food production; forest conservation; habitats; landscapes; sustainable land management; urban development; China; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Promoting land use planning through ecosystem service (ES) protection is a crucial approach for maintaining landscape sustainability. Identifying ES bundles to serve landscape functional zoning can provide a new perspective for sustainable land use planning. Taking the Beijing metropolitan region as a study area, we quantitatively assessed the spatiotemporal distributions of multiple ESs, from 198 ...
landuseplanning, etc ; Cryptosporidium; Giardia; United States Environmental Protection Agency; diarrhea; feces; hazard identification; humans; microbiological risk assessment; pollution; risk; watersheds; Latin America; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Human and animal feces are one of the main pollutants in drinking water systems (DWS). Both sources of fecal pollution are related to environmental conditions, such as poor land use management and little micro-basin protection. Cryptosporidium sp. and Giardia sp. are zoonotic protozoan water and foodborne transmitted parasitic pathogens and a frequent cause of diarrhea in children in low- and midd ...
landuseplanning, etc ; carbon; case studies; financial economics; models; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The rational land use allocation is of great significance to the construction of low-carbon cities. The optimization model of land use allocation is an important tool that helps urban planners to quantitatively trade-off among the multi-objectives and achieve optimal land use schemes. For multi-objective optimization of low-carbon land use allocation, the models conducted by existing studies gener ...
landuseplanning, etc ; Landsat; case studies; coasts; cropland; forests; habitat fragmentation; infrastructure; issues and policy; landscapes; risk; socioeconomics; spatial variation; topography; tourism; urbanization; China; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Island ecosystems have distinct and unique vulnerabilities that place them at risk from threats to their ecology and socioeconomics. Spatially exhibiting the fragmentation process of island landscapes and identifying their driving factors are the fundamental prerequisites for the maintenance of island ecosystems and the rational utilization of islands. Haitan Island was chosen as a case study for ...
landuseplanning, etc ; agricultural watersheds; catenas; computer software; data collection; hydrodynamics; hydrologic models; rain; runoff; seasonal variation; soil erosion; time series analysis; watershed management; Show all 13 Subjects
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... The detrimental impacts of surface runoff and soil erosion, particularly in cultivated areas, call for the use of distributed runoff and soil erosion models with a view to supporting adapted catchment management strategies. However, runoff model parameterization remains challenging in agricultural catchments due to the high spatial and seasonal variability of soil properties. Data acquisition is d ...
... East African ecosystems have been shaped by long-term socio-ecological–environmental interactions. Although much previous work on human–environment interrelationships have emphasised the negative impacts of human interventions, a growing body of work shows that there have also often been strong beneficial connections between people and ecosystems, especially in savanna environments. However, limit ...
landuseplanning, etc ; Andosols; acidification; agricultural land; base saturation; bulk density; carbon sequestration; carbon sinks; coniferous forests; forest soils; organic carbon; pH; surface area; Indonesia; Show all 14 Subjects
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... We investigated changes in geochemical soil properties in response to deposition age and land use management over 30 – 50 years on tropical volcanic soils. Our purpose was to find out how weathering stage and land use interactively affect soil properties and organic carbon, and to check if phenoforms (management-related soil subtypes) exist within the genoforms (genetic soil types). Soil samples w ...
landuseplanning, etc ; case studies; fuzzy logic; groundwater; risk assessment; Qatar; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Vulnerability maps are useful for groundwater protection, water resources development, and land use management. The literature contains various approaches for intrinsic vulnerability assessment, and they mainly depend on hydrogeological settings and anthropogenic impacts. Most methods assign certain ratings and weights to each contributing factor to groundwater vulnerability. Fuzzy logic (FL) is a ...
landuseplanning, etc ; agricultural land; ecosystem services; ecosystems; environmental management; forest land; grasslands; land use change; surface water; sustainable development; water purification; watersheds; wavelet; Yangtze River; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Clarifying the complex land use impacts on ecosystem services (ESs) trade-off will be beneficial to watershed sustainable development, especially through scientific land use management and decision making. Dongting Lake Basin (DLB) is not only one of the most significant ecological barriers for the Yangtze River Economic Belt, but also an important grain production base of China. The trade-off bet ...
landuseplanning, etc ; Hevea brasiliensis; Landsat; agriculture; cassava; crop production; data collection; electronics; food security; international trade; land cover; models; remote sensing; rice; stakeholders; sugarcane; Thailand; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Crop production and productivity monitoring play a crucial role for food security and livelihoods, international trade and sustainable agricultural practices. Earth Observation (EO) data provides high spectral, spatial and temporal data for various agricultural applications. However, mapping and monitoring small crop fields and complex landscapes are still challenging, in particular when attemptin ...
landuseplanning, etc ; deforestation; forests; hydrologic cycle; rivers; runoff; soil; water yield; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Assessment of forest impact on river runoff plays an important role in the rational use of water resources and the choice of optimal land use management. A top priority task of this research is to find out whether the forest increases or decreases the annual river runoff and how significant these changes can be. The influence of forest on river runoff generation is a result of complicated interact ...
landuseplanning, etc ; data collection; gravity; land; models; quantitative analysis; urbanization; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Rapid urban sprawl is a key characteristic of the current urban land use changes in China. It leads, however, to inefficient land use and spatial imbalance. This paper conducts a quantitative analysis of the urban land use efficiency (ULUE) at a provincial scale in China, based on the SBM-GPA integration model, and using the datasets of 31 province-level regions (provinces, municipalities and auto ...
landuseplanning, etc ; decision making; environmental protection; humans; models; pollution; urbanization; Taiwan; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Land resources are not only the spatial carriers of social and economic development, but also the carriers of environmental and ecological services. With the accelerated urbanization, the non-coordinated development of land resources and environmental protection will restrict economic growth and the benefits of land use changes. Moreover, the economic efficiency and environmental efficiency of lan ...
landuseplanning, etc ; bioavailability; environment; landscapes; population density; solubility; streams; subwatersheds; water pollution; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Influence of land use and population characteristics on solid-liquid partitioning of heavy metals in aquatic ecosystems is little understood. This study hypothesised that the partitioning of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) between water and sediments is influenced by different land use classes, their configuration patterns including patch density, Shannon's diversity index, largest patch ...
landuseplanning, etc ; advocacy; governance; land policy; models; policy analysis; public policy; Ethiopia; Rwanda; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Land policies are formulated with the goal of addressing land use management challenges. Therefore, a thorough investigation is required to assess effectiveness of land policy processes. The unknown land use policy effectiveness is how and where the formulation and identification of land use problems affect the throughput of policy implementation. The main objective of this paper is to assess the ...
landuseplanning, etc ; decision making; land; market value; markets; rural areas; social welfare; soil; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In public management, it is common to face conflicting objectives, particularly in relation to land use. Adequate land use management requires a valuation of land that incorporates the value of all its characteristics. That is, in addition to the traditional direct use value, it must incorporate the non-use value (existence and legacy), as well as the indirect use and option values. The analytic h ...
landuseplanning, etc ; ecosystems; environmental quality; land policy; spatial variation; sustainable land management; Italy; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The progressive artificial covering of originally natural surfaces (land consumption) is a major concern of today’s societies due to the implications for the environment and the availability of land resources. This study aims to explore the local variations in the effects of the main socio-demographic, economic and institutional determinants of land consumption in Campania (southern Italy). Using ...