Remote sensing of land change: A multifaceted perspective

Z Zhu, S Qiu, S Ye - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The discipline of land change science has been evolving rapidly in the past decades.
Remote sensing played a major role in one of the essential components of land change …

A global systematic review of empirical evidence of ecotourism impacts on forests in biodiversity hotspots

JS Brandt, RC Buckley - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2018 - Elsevier
Ecotourism is growing rapidly in biodiversity hotspots because of its promise to achieve both
economic growth and environmental conservation. We reviewed the literature for empirical …

Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

L Porter-Bolland, EA Ellis, MR Guariguata… - Forest ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term
maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case …

Land use and land cover change detection in the western Nile delta of Egypt using remote sensing data

OR Abd El-Kawy, JK Rød, HA Ismail, AS Suliman - Applied geography, 2011 - Elsevier
Continual, historical, and precise information about the land use and land cover (LULC)
changes of the Earth's surface is extremely important for any kind of sustainable …

A GIS application for assessing, map**, and quantifying the social values of ecosystem services

BC Sherrouse, JM Clement, DJ Semmens - Applied geography, 2011 - Elsevier
As human pressures on ecosystems continue to increase, research involving the effective
incorporation of social values information into the context of comprehensive ecosystem …

Assessing land use and land cover change and farmers' perceptions of deforestation and land degradation in South-West Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa

JL Kouassi, A Gyau, L Diby, Y Bene, C Kouamé - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Deforestation and land degradation remain two major economic and environmental threats
in Côte d'Ivoire. This study assessed land use and land cover (LULC) change and farmers' …

Understanding recent land use and land cover dynamics in the source region of the Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia: Spatially explicit statistical modeling of systematic …

E Teferi, W Bewket, S Uhlenbrook… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper was to quantify long-term land use and land cover changes
(LULCC) and to identify the spatial determinants of locations of most systematic transitions …

Influence of watershed land use and riparian characteristics on biological indicators of stream water quality in southeastern Brazil

MO Tanaka, ALT de Souza, LE Moschini… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2016 - Elsevier
Land use changes and riparian corridor degradation strongly influence the water quality of
low-order streams at different spatial scales. Stream water quality can be analyzed by …

[HTML][HTML] LULC changes to riverine flooding: a case study on the Jamuna River, Bangladesh using the multilayer perceptron model

MM Hasan, MSM Nilay, NH Jibon, RM Rahman - Results in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In riverine nations like Bangladesh, floods are frequent, bringing disaster that impairs
people's lives and the national economy. Due to climate change, uncontrolled growth, rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of land use/land cover changes in a watershed: A case study of the Murredu watershed in Telangana state, India

PR Shekar, A Mathew - Watershed Ecology and the Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Land-use change refers to a change in how a particular area of land is utilised or managed
by humans. Land-cover change refers to a change in some continuous features of the land …