Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

As anthropogenic transformation of Earth's ecology accelerates, and its impacts on the
sustainability of humanity and the rest of nature become more obvious, geographers and …

Quantitative reconstructions of past land-cover are necessary for research into the
processes involved in climate-human-land interactions. We present the first temporally …

With more people now living in urban areas than outside of them, urbanism is becoming an
increasingly important socioeconomic and ecological arena for our species in the twenty-first …

Estimating past population dynamics has become a major research topic for archaeology,
which uses several proxies for studying past demography. The Czech Republic represents a …

Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

Projecting and managing the feedback between tropical deforestation and global Earth
system dynamics, and identifying potential critical thresholds or tip** points, will be key to …

Charting the long-term trends in European wheat and maize yields and harvested areas and
the relation of yields to climatic and economic drivers, two profound spatial processes …

The concepts of planetary boundaries are influential in the sustainability literature and assist
in delineating the 'safe operating spaces' beyond which critical Earth system processes …

An emerging arena of archaeological research is beginning to deploy remote sensing
technologies—including aerial and satellite imagery, digital topographic data, and drone …