Terrestrial ecosystem services (ES) are vulnerable to land use and land cover changes
(LULCC). These changes are triggered by different drivers of change (eg, economic, social …

Increasing land and water scarcity, unequal distribution and competition over resource use,
land degradation and biodiversity loss, exacerbated by climate change, question the …

Land use change is one of the challenges that aggravate environmental problems.
Understanding the scope of land use change, driving forces, and consequences is very …

This study uses a combination of remote sensing data, field interviews and observations,
and landscape indices to examine the dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC), identify …

Sustainability science is a use-inspired and place-based transdisciplinary enterprise that
integrates natural and social sciences, engineering/design sciences, and humanities to …

Landscapes can lead to different emotions towards nature that in turn shape people's
environmental behavior and decision processes. This study explores the role of emotions …

Context Landscape ecology early on developed the awareness that central objects of
investigation are not stable over time and therefore the historical dimension must be …

The fragmentation of agricultural land is influenced by political, economic, social, ecological
and environmental factors, which affect its dynamics, patterns, structures, and functions …

There have been incredible changes that have taken place in the land use pattern globally
over the last 50 years, which resulted from environmental degradation and climate change …

Over the past 25 years, the study of driving forces of landscape change has developed into a
central theme in land change science by contributing to theory development, promoting the …