From land-use/land-cover to land system science
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DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01510-4
Abstract: Before transitioning to questions of sustainability, international research agendas addressing the Anthropocene focused on global environmental change, or the alterations in the structure and functioning of the earth system affected by human activity. Research focusing… read more here.
Keywords: science; land; cover; land use ... See more keywords
Toward a normative land systems science
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.003
Abstract: Science should provide solutions for societal transformations toward sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socio-ecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and… read more here.
Keywords: land system; science; land systems; normative land ... See more keywords
From transdisciplinary projects to platforms: expanding capacity and impact of land systems knowledge and decision making
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.001
Abstract: Land system science can inform decision making to address societally important issues, including food, energy, and water security, livelihoods and lifestyles, biodiversity loss, and climate change. There is growing experience among scientists and practitioners with… read more here.
Keywords: decision making; land system; land systems; system science ... See more keywords
Unraveling land system vulnerability to rapid urbanization: An indicator-based vulnerability assessment for Wuhan, China.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.112981
Abstract: Rapid urbanization induced by land use change poses a great threat to the structure and function of land system. There is an urgent need to profile the components underlying the vulnerability of land system and… read more here.
Keywords: rapid urbanization; land system; land; system vulnerability ... See more keywords
Effects of rapid urbanization on ecological functional vulnerability of the land system in Wuhan, China: A flow and stock perspective
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119284
Abstract: Abstract Exploring how rapid urbanization affects ecological functional vulnerability is a key issue in regional ecological risk assessment. This paper proposes a complex network approach to explore the response of ecological functional vulnerability to different… read more here.
Keywords: stock; land system; functional vulnerability; ecological functional ... See more keywords
China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2
Abstract: China has responded to a national land-system sustainability emergency via an integrated portfolio of large-scale programmes. Here we review 16 sustainability programmes, which invested US$378.5 billion (in 2015 US$), covered 623.9 million hectares of land… read more here.
Keywords: national land; system sustainability; china; sustainability ... See more keywords
A CA-based land system change model: LANDSCAPE
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DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1315536
Abstract: ABSTRACT Cellular automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate land-use changes because of their simplicity, flexibility, intuitiveness and ability to incorporate the spatial and temporal dimensions of processes. A small number of CA-based models… read more here.
Keywords: land; land uses; model; allocation ... See more keywords
A Scenario-Based Simulation of Land System Changes on Dietary Changes: A Case Study in China
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DOI: 10.3390/su11195196
Abstract: The dietary change of Chinese residents is driven by increasing incomes and urbanization, which will bring about non-negligible changes in the food production of the land system. To explore how dietary changes might influence future… read more here.
Keywords: dietary change; land; dietary changes; china ... See more keywords