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Local authorities are important actors to mitigate climate change. They can implement policies which can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in sectors like transport, waste, agriculture and land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF). They can also implement policies which can increase carbon dioxide removals. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is one of the most important...
This research simulated the urban growth scenarios of a mountain city of Chongqing, China through a CA-based model of SLEUTH. The fundamental data were four Landsat TM images of 1978, 1988, 1993, and 2001 which were utilized for generating maps of land use, road networks, and urbanized area. Three alternative development scenarios, including business as usual, compact city and decentralized concentration,...
In order to make full use of mining subsidence areas, a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method on the land reclamation suitability is used. According to the three directions of land reclamation of agriculture, forestry and pond, we choose proper evaluation elements and weights, and then obtain the structure of land reclamation suitability of this coal mining subsidence as a result which provides a...
Based on understanding the meaning to sustainable capacity of the Cropland Conversion Program, a set of indicators has been developed for assessing sustainable development capacity of the Cropland Conversion Program from the environment, economical, social, intelligence system's support ability; Anding District in Gansu Province. Yichuan County in Shanxi Province. Zhungeer Banner in Inner Mongolia...
With the development of the society, the problem of population, resources and environment has become more and more serious. The land use change is being given more attention accordingly. So it is important to extract the spatial-temporal change information of land use, to analyze the land use pattern, and to find the driving factors of land use change by mathematic model. Based on remote sensing and...
This study uses remote sensing and spatial modeling to quantify and analyze land-cover change in one of Cameroon's rich ornithological montane forest biomes, the Kilum/Ijim mountain forest and surrounding watersheds. Change trajectories are identified over the entire watershed for a thirty year period (1978-2008). The role of satellite imagery, biophysical variables, locational context, and household...
Indigenous lands represent an efficient way to protect indigenous communities and environment in Brazil. However, these lands are also highly affected y the land use changes occuring in its surroundings. We quantified the land use changes in the Xingu basin based on MODIS EVI data between 2000 and 2006. We estimated the deforested area inside and outside the indigenous lands, the crop expansion and...
The application of ubiquitous technology in Korea has been expanded with city as the center, but establishing U-Technology utilization plan for farm village and forest is required now according to pan-national growth strategies recently came to fore including national balanced development, sustainable development, and green growth. Therefore, in order to organize the concept of U-Territory, U-Land,...
In this paper computer environmental planning in the field of forestry is studied. Forestry planning's target is focused on sustainable ecology development rather than economic concerns. Aim of this research is the creating new planting patterns which makes the future forest more safer against the affects of wind as an example to simulation the sustainable environment. For the reason of computer environment...
Several approaches exist to model the production, transport and delivery of water and sediment flows in watersheds but none of these are dealing with spatial optimality requirements. However, policy and decision makers dealing with environmental conservation and land use planning often require identifying potential sites for contributing to minimize sediment flow reaching riverbeds. This is the case...
Responses of hydrologic process to human induced land use changes, which have affected a wide portion of China since last century, were evaluated with a coupled land surface-hydrology model. The main land use changes were assessed by the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) historic (1970) and potential land use types in the Huaihe River basin. The variations of flood...
Land is an important and fundamental natural resource which the mankind depends on for existence. Governor wants a better and cheaper mechanization to supervise land usage. The predominant source of remote intelligence for monitoring land change activities, remote sensing satellites especially Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)satellites are finding a niche on this arena. The high resolution and fully...
Along with the infections of human activities to the environment, some problems with regard to population, resources and environment have become increasingly prominent, and result in the changes in land use, so that which have been concerned very much. A dynamic data base of land use is speedily and precisely established as to study the space-time changes of regional land use and land overlay by using...
Based on the phantom interpretation data of land TM/ETM of 1996 and that of 2006, this article analyzed the land use and land cover change of ChangBai Mountain area in the recent 10 years, and calculated the change of ecosystem service value resulted from this change. During the 10 years, LUCC of Changbai Mountain area had changed fiercely, the paddy field, the forest land and the wetland were in...
The Brazilian Amazon is an area where extensive tropical rainforest areas are being converted to agriculture and cattle raising activities, contributing to environmental and landscape changes of this large region. The main objective of this paper is test whether spatial patterns of deforestation as visualized by satellite images are related to land use data as collected by household survey. This linkage...
This work focus on two municipalities established first as rural settlements in Rondonia State in 1982. These two municipalities consist on a unique land use change study due to the differences in settlements planning, but also because they are part of recent frontiers of deforestation. The main land use patterns in the study area are mainly related to small farmers. However, medium and big farms,...
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