Scientific papers on landscape planning underline the importance of maintaining and
develo** green spaces because of their multiple environmental and social benefits for city …

Abstract “Co-design “has become a widely used approach in land use science to address
complex sustainability challenges. However, the term “co-design” is applied in quite different …

To date land-change science has devoted little attention to spatial policy and planning in
urban landscapes despite the widely accepted premise that planning affects urban land …

Land use change is influenced by a complexity of drivers that transcend spatial, institutional
and temporal scales. The analytical framework of telecoupling has recently been proposed …

Abstract Knowledge about intensity and spatial pattern of urban land changes (ULCs), ie,
changes from non-built-up to built-up lands, is important to a wide range of issues, from …

The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-
use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to …

Context Hill stations are known for their favorable cool climate and natural environments
which generate valuable ecosystem services that benefit the local population, tourists and …

Payment schemes for ecosystem services such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and forest Degradation (REDD) rely on the prediction of 'business-as-usual'scenarios to …

Agent-based modelling (ABM) simulates Social-Ecological-Systems (SESs) based on the
decision-making and actions of individual actors or actor groups, their interactions with each …

Taking the cases of Perú and Ghana, this paper examines overlaps between the extraction
of minerals, oil and gas on the one hand, and river basins, agricultural land use, and …