Land-use systems are characterized by complex interactions between human decision-
makers and their biophysical environment. Mismatches between the scale of human drivers …

Agricultural training is a potentially effective method to diffuse relevant new technologies to
increase productivity and alleviate rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However …

Within a region plagued by deforestation, Vietnam has experienced an exceptional
turnaround from net forest loss to forest regrowth. This so-called forest transition, starting in …

Agricultural abandonment is widespread and growing in many regions worldwide, often
because of agricultural intensification on productive lands, conservation policies, or the …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

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 …

The breakdown of socialism caused massive socio-economic and institutional changes that
led to substantial agricultural land abandonment. The goal of our study was to identify the …

The rapid expansion of non-grain production (NGP) on cultivated land is of increasing
concern regarding grain security in China. Characterizing the developmental mechanism of …

This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei
Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing …