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Landsat time series reveal simultaneous expansion and intensification of irrigated dry season cropping in Southeastern Turkey J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Philippe Rufin; Daniel Müller; Marcel Schwieder; Dirk Pflugmacher; Patrick Hostert
ABSTRACT Long-term monitoring of the extent and intensity of irrigation systems is needed to track crop water consumption and to adapt land use to a changing climate. We mapped the expansion and changes in the intensity of irrigated dry season cropping in Turkey´s Southeastern Anatolia Project annually from 1990 to 2018 using Landsat time series. Irrigated dry season cropping covered 5,779 km² (± 479 km²)
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Spatiotemporal changes in vegetation greenness across continental Ecuador: a Pacific-Andean-Amazonian gradient, 1982–2010 J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Xavier Haro-Carrión; Peter Waylen; Jane Southworth
ABSTRACT The tropics are greening, but little is known about greening patterns in the tropical Andes. Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data on monthly and annual bases, this research analyzes greening across Ecuador from 1982–2010. Findings indicate overall significant greening after the mid ’90s with distinct seasonal variations across regions. In the Amazon greening occurs during
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Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Melanie Feurer; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Andreas Heinimann; Su Myat Naing; Jürgen Blaser; Enrico Celio
ABSTRACT In complex tropical forest frontier landscapes, ecosystem service (ES) models are essential tools to test impacts of different land schemes on people. Considering several factors of supply, demand and flow and focusing on local stakeholders, we developed nine ES models using Bayesian networks and applied them in different land scenarios in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. We found land use and
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Pious pioneers: the expansion of mennonite colonies in Latin America J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Yann le Polain de Waroux; Janice Neumann; Anna O’Driscoll; Kerstin Schreiber
ABSTRACT Nearly one hundred years ago, a group of Mennonites left the prairies of Manitoba for the deserts of Northern Mexico. Since then, Mennonites have created over two hundred agricultural colonies across Latin America, spanning nine countries and seven biomes. In this paper, we provide the first continental-scale map and account of Mennonite expansion in Latin America over the last century. We
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Using participatory system dynamics modelling to quantify indirect land use changes of biofuel projects J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Lorenzo Di Lucia; Steve Peterson; Eva Sevigné-Itoiz; Alberto Atzori; Domenico Usai; Raphael Slade; Ausilio Bauen
ABSTRACT The use of biomass to produce biofuels can lead to both direct and indirect Land Use Change (LUC). While the causes underlying LUCs are complex their quantification is a scientific challenge that hinders decision-making. Here we demonstrate the application of participatory modelling in combination with System Dynamics techniques to the analysis of the land-change dynamics associated with biofuel
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Agri-urban patterns in Mediterranean urban regions: the case study of Pisa J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Irune Ruiz-Martinez; Marta Debolini; Tiziana Sabbatini; Enrico Bonari; Sylvie Lardon; Elisa Marraccini
ABSTRACT Urban regions require planning tools in order to manage agricultural areas under urban pressure. The aim of our paper is to test an analytical framework that combines both the composition in urban and agricultural land covers and their spatial configuration into four general agri-urban patterns: isolated fields, urban belt fields, periurban agricultural areas and rural areas. We evaluated
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Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Jasper van Vliet; Torben Birch-Thomsen; Marta Gallardo; Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx; Anna M. Hersperger; Mengmeng Li; Samuel Tumwesigye; Ronald Twongyirwe; Anton van Rompaey
ABSTRACT Rural and urban areas are often conceptualized as two separate entities and studied accordingly. However, in reality, they are related in multiple ways. Here we explore this relation between rural and urban areas from a land use perspective. We argue that land should be characterized along a gradient from rural to urban. Further, we argue that land use along this gradient typically combines
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Socio-ecological trajectories in a rural Austrian region from 1961 to 2011: comparing the theories of Malthus and Boserup via systemic-dynamic modelling J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-27 Claudine Egger; Helmut Haberl; Karl-Heinz Erb; Veronika Gaube
ABSTRACT This paper investigates to what extent the theories of Thomas Robert Malthus and Ester Boserup are still useful to analyse population and land-use trajectories in an industrial society at a regional scale. Following a model-based approach toward long-term socio-ecological research, we built two system dynamic models, each representing one theory, and calculated socio-ecological trajectories
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Spatial impact of cropland supplement policy on regional ecosystem services under urban expansion circumstance: a case study of Hubei Province, China J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Xinli Ke; Qiushi Zhou; Chengchao Zuo; Lanping Tang; Andy Turner
ABSTRACT The Cropland Supplement Policy (CSP) helps maintain the total area of cropland in China as urban areas expand, but can result in environmental degradation as areas of more natural habitat are turned into cropland. Current and future impacts of the CSP are explored under different land-use change scenarios by comparing the differences in ecosystem services value (ESV) at province level. Scenario-based
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Institutional shifts and landscape change: the impact of the Período Especial on Cuba’s land system architecture J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Michelle Stuhlmacher; B.L. Turner II; Amy E. Frazier; Yushim Kim; Jessica Leffel
ABSTRACT Formal institutions, especially policies, play a key role in land system change. Compared to other drivers of change, however, the impact of policies on landscapes is under-addressed in land system science, in part due to difficulties isolating their effect on longitudinal land change. We address this gap by examining land system architecture changes in Cuba brought about by the 1991 collapse
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Access mapping highlights risks from land reform in upland Myanmar J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Laura Kmoch; Matilda Palm; U. Martin Persson; Martin Rudbeck Jepsen
ABSTRACT Secure land access is vital for Myanmar’s upland households, who rely on crops and forests to meet their subsistence needs. But recent land reforms threaten to undermine customary tenure and land-use practices in Myanmar. This paper combines income accounting methods with access theory to assess how new legislation may affect four Chin communities in the country’s north-west. Our assessment
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Land-system science to support achieving the sustainable development goals J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Darla K. Munroe; Daniel Müller
(2020). Land-system science to support achieving the sustainable development goals. Journal of Land Use Science: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 477-481.
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Framing the search for a theory of land use J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 BL Turner II; Patrick Meyfroidt; Tobias Kuemmerle; Daniel Müller; Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved understanding and theorization of land and its change as a social-ecological system (SES). The absence of a general land-use theory, anchored in the social subsystem but with explicit links to the environmental subsystem, hampers this effort. Drawing on land-use explanations, meta-analyses, and associated frameworks
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Farmland size, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation management effects on maize and wheat yield in Mexico J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Matthew C. LaFevor; Nicholas R. Magliocca
Farmland size is a key factor in debates over agricultural land use, food security, agrochemical pollution, and the future of smallholder systems. This paper examines relationships between farmland size, chemical fertilizers and irrigation management, and maize and wheat yield in Mexico. We used agricultural census data to estimate the mean farmland areas and crop yields of 5.5 million farms and nine
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Agency and structure: a grounded theory approach to explain land-use change in the Mindo and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Claudia Coral; Wolfgang Bokelmann; Michelle Bonatti; Robert Carcamo; Stefan Sieber
Although life and land decisions are individual, driven by perceptions of reality, they reflect broader social processes. This research aims to understand relevant land-use change processes and the context within which land-use change occurs in the study area. For this, we employ grounded theory techniques and procedures to analyze narratives and life history interviews. Based on these narratives,
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Environmental governance and conservation. Experiences in two natural protected areas of Mexico and Costa Rica J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Blanca M. Vázquez-Villa; Humberto Reyes-Hernández; Edgar Gregorio Leija-Loredo; José G. Rivera-González; Carlos Morera-Beita
ABSTRACT Natural protected areas are recognized as key to the conservation of biodiversity and to face deforestation. Their effectiveness requires both an integrated model and the social participation of local actors. The present study analyzes the deforestation process and its relationship with governance at the Sierra de la Abra Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (RBSAT), Mexico, and Piedras Blancas National
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Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert; Regine Schönenberg
(2020). Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America. Journal of Land Use Science: Vol. 15, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Transformations at Extractive and Agrarian Frontiers in Latin America, pp. 99-107.
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Too small to count? Making Land Use Transformations in Chiquitano communities of San Ignacio de Velasco, East Bolivia, visible J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert
The Santa Cruz lowlands, east Bolivia, are one of South America’s most dynamic agricultural frontiers. In the Chiquitania, bordering Brazil, San Ignacio de Velasco was in 2017 ranked first nationally in terms of deforestation. There, two deforestation fronts meet with mechanized agriculture expanding from the West and South and cattle ranching from the East. Chiquitano communities are demographically
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The importance of agricultural yield elasticity for indirect land use change: a Bayesian network analysis for robust uncertainty quantification J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Oliver Perkins; James D. A. Millington
A major barrier to realising biofuels’ climate change mitigation potential is uncertainty concerning carbon emissions from indirect land use change (ILUC). Central to this uncertainty is the extent to which yields can respond dynamically to increased demand for agricultural commodities. This study examines the elasticity of soybean and corn yields in the USA for 1990–2017 using Bayesian network models
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The impact of urbanization on agricultural dynamics: a case study in Belgium J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-06-07 Veronique Beckers; L. Poelmans; A. Van Rompaey; N. Dendoncker
ABSTRACT Urbanization leads to a continuous loss of agricultural land, both directly under the form of land take, and indirectly through the use of agricultural land for non-productive rural activities like recreation, horse keeping or hobby farming. These urbanization processes put pressure on farmers, making farming activities harder through reduced agricultural land, negative externalities and the
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Land use/land cover change detection and urban sprawl in the peri-urban area of greater Cairo since the Egyptian revolution of 2011 J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Muhammad Salem; Naoki Tsurusaki; Prasanna Divigalpitiya
ABSTRACT Land use/land cover (LULC) has changed dramatically in the peri-urban area (PUA) of greater Cairo (GC) since the Egyptian revolution of 2011. This study analyzes LULC change in the PUA of GC using two Landsat images from 2010 and 2018. The spatial trends of LULC change and visualizations of the gains and losses in LULC were analyzed using TerrSet software. The driving forces of LULC change
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The long and winding boundaries: quantifying interfaces between residential, natural and agricultural land uses J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Dani Broitman
ABSTRACT The coexistence of different land uses in peri-urban areas is a well-known planning and managerial challenge, but explicit analyses of the boundaries and interfaces between different land uses are lacking. This paper suggests a method to explicitly quantify the spatial extent of the interfaces between different land uses. The analysis is carried out using urban development models and an empirical
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Who owns the Earth? A challenge for the land system science community J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Kendra McSweeney; Oliver T. Coomes
Reflecting on the 2019 Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Program and on commentaries since, we argue that the time is ripe for the land system science community to fully embrace the thorny issue of land ownership and control. Beyond land governance and institutions, the issue of who actually owns and controls land, and how land holding and rents are distributed across society, is central to the
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Towards a better understanding of land conversion at the urban-rural interface: planning intentions and the effectiveness of growth management J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Anna M. Hersperger; Simona R. Grădinaru; Stefan Siedentop
ABSTRACT The conversion of open space to built land is a key feature of urban-rural transformations. In many countries, urban sprawl represents the dominant mode of urban growth. Against this background, urban growth management plays a crucial role in mediating between diverse spatial requirements and curbing sprawl-like land-use patterns, but its effectiveness is not fully understood. Relatively few
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Quantifying inconsistencies in old cadastral maps and their impact on land-use reconstructions J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Michal Forejt; Martin Dolejš; Johana Zacharová; Pavel Raška
Old cadastral maps represent a historical reference dataset for long-term land-use reconstructions. This study presents identification of inconsistencies in the nineteenth century Franziscean cadastre, one of the largest sets of old cadastral maps worldwide, by comparing three versions of the maps and written documents created in the same period. We identified all parcels and their land-use in the
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Frontiers created by ‘the Others’ J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Claudia Guedes
This paper highlights the colonized perspective, and aims to reflect on the consequences of a predominant perspective of land control and use for Amazonian indigenous people. The demarcation of indigenous territories has been presented by external public actors, the ‘Others’ to explicitly support indigenous people defend their territories. However, demarcation effectively creates a frontier and enclosure
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How to overcome the development deadlock in the Quilombo Vila Formosa, Brazil? J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-04-03 Regine Schönenberg
Although Brazilian Quilombolas possess specific land rights referring to their past as African slaves, the realization of such rights often fails due to the absence of land surveys, clarified institutional competencies and the general lack of power under which minorities suffer. Additional factors such as an expanding commercial agriculture contributing to land and water degradation and new actors
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Post-frontier governance up in smoke? Free-for-all frontier imaginations encourage illegal deforestation and appropriation of public lands in the Brazilian Amazon J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-03-21 Michael Klingler; Philipp Mack
ABSTRACT Post-frontier governance in the Brazilian Amazon highlights the interaction of regulatory technologies, institutions and practices to combat illegal deforestation and appropriation of public lands. While the Amazon fires received tremendous media coverage in 2019, the dismantlement of environmental laws and regulatory agencies has supported the rise in deforestation as early as 2012. We discuss
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Mountain wood-pastures and forest cover loss in Romania J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Magdalena Drăgan, Gabriela-Alina Mureşan, József Benedek
Currently, land cover changes occur in wood-pastures all over Europe driven by abandonment of traditional farming, as well as by management and policy changes. Based on reviewing of official documents, semi-structured interviews and one case study we examined how policies and governance settings for mountain wood-pastures have led to forest cover loss in Romania. In general, wood-pastures are formal
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The role of environmental placemaking in shaping contemporary environmentalism and understanding land change J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Amrita Sen, Harini Nagendra
It is important to understand environmental and conservation consciousness, commonly referred to as ‘environmentalism’, considering the crisis of global environmental change. Environmentalism of the North has been characterized as focused on ‘pristine’ landscapes of wilderness. In contrast, discussions on environmentalism of the South focus on indigenous and long-settled communities with intrinsic
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Classification of Indian cities using Google Earth Engine J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-29 Shivani Agarwal, Harini Nagendra
The rapid expansion of cities and the impacts of urbanization on local and global environmental factors such as biodiversity and climate change are of great concern. Reliable rapid approaches for mapping the expansion of cities are of increasing importance today. In this paper, we explore the use of Google Earth Engine to classify land cover in Indian cities from Landsat imagery, using a Random Forest
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Agricultural Technology Adoption among Migrant Settlers and Indigenous Populations of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Are Differences Narrowing? J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-23 Samuel Sellers,Richard Bilsborrow
We consider trends in the use of modern agricultural inputs of migrant settlers and indigenous populations in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon and the demographic, socioeconomic, and land use-related factors affecting input use. It is widely believed that the different livelihood strategies, and therefore different relationships to the land, of indigenous populations and migrant settlers result in different
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Deconstructing sustainable rubber production: contesting narratives in rural Sumatra J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-15 Fenna Otten; Jonas Hein; Hannah Bondy; Heiko Faust
ABSTRACT The growing demand for natural rubber is increasingly threatening biodiversity and forest ecosystems. Recently, the French Michelin Group started a cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to establish environmentally and socially sustainable ‘model’ rubber plantations in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia. The framing of Michelin’s tyre production as ‘eco-friendly’ and their purported
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Land use land cover change and the comparative impact of co-management and government-management on the forest cover in Malawi (1999-2018) J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-09 Monica Fides Gondwe, Moses Azong Cho, Paxie Wanangwa Chirwa, Coert Johannes Geldenhuys
Miombo Woodland is the major Land use/land cover with important ecological functions in Africa. In Malawi, government-management was designed to manage Woodlands. However, when illegal activities continued, Participatory Forest Management (co-management) in forest reserves was institutionalised for woodland sustainability. Currently, information on co-management mitigating deforestation and degradation
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Value chains and soft commodities in Amazonia. Regulatory prospects for commodified biodiversity according to the glocal production chain of açaí J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-07 Paula Veloz
This triple case study attempts, from the viewpoint of economic and environmental anthropology, to take into account and to assess pertinent cultural, political, institutional, and economic factors that have an impact on how the açaí value chain develops or restrains according to the given regulatory frameworks. Based on the common-pool resources approach (CPR), the study examines how institutional
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Spatial determinants and underlying drivers of land-use transitions in European Russia from 1770 to 2010 J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-03 Victor Matasov, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Daniel Müller
Historic land-use and land-cover data are important inputs for assessing the impacts of human activity on the environment. Our goal was to reconstruct land-cover change from 1770 to 2010 and to evaluate its spatial determinants and underlying drivers for three study sites in diverse agroecological settings in Ryazan province in European Russia. We used historic maps and statistics as well as satellite
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Agricultural technology adoption and land use: evidence for Brazilian municipalities J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ademir Rocha, Eduardo Gonçalves, Eduardo Almeida
The Green Revolution spread ‘modern agriculture’ to agricultural areas of the world through the creation of new products and practices. The adoption of agricultural technology brought about great changes in land use. The growth of new cultivated varieties, expansion of existing crops and deforestation are some of the results of this process. This article evaluates the relationship between agricultural
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A Bayesian network approach to modelling land-use decisions under environmental policy incentives in the Brazilian Amazon J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Nathália Nascimento; Thales A. P. West; Lisa Biber-Freudenberger; Eráclito R. de Sousa-Neto; Jean Ometto; Jan Börner
Deforestation driven by agricultural expansion is a major threat to the biodiversity of the Amazon Basin. Modelling how deforestation responds to environmental policy implementation has thus become a policy relevant scientific undertaking. However, empirical parameterization of land-use/cover change (LUCC) models is challenging due to the high complexity and uncertainty of land-use decisions. Bayesian
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Aerial laser scanning reveals the dynamics of cropland abandonment in Poland J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-29 Jaroslaw Janus, Piotr Bozek
Understanding the patterns of cropland abandonment is important when formulating policies that can limit negative and facilitate positive outcomes of abandonment. We present a new approach to determining the dynamics of this phenomenon using aerial laser scanning (ALS) data. Assuming that the height of trees correlates with their age made it possible to reconstruct the dynamics of cropland abandonment
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A classification scheme for vacant urban lands: integrating duration, land characteristics, and survival rates. J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-22 Ryun Jung Lee,Galen Newman
This study develops a methodology to distinguish vacant land types and introduces a classification scheme using a citywide vacancy inventory. Using Minneapolis, MN as a study area, three land characteristics associated with vacant properties – parcel size, ownership, and land use – are examined. Kaplan-Meier survival rates are then estimated to evaluate and compare the durations of vacancy between
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Differentiated impacts of environmental policies on the Colombian Frontier: coercive conservation and containment of illicit activities in the Pacific and the Ariari region J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-11 Diego Andrés Lugo
This article, through the use of political ecology perspectives on coercive conservation, aims to explain how in two separate Colombian Natural Parks and buffer zones, environmental policies designed to (re)take control of the frontier, have produced a similar territorial differentiation in the contention of illicit activities. Los Farallones in the Colombian Pacific and La Macarena/Puerto Rico in
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Forests in the time of peace J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Kristina Van Dexter; Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
The signing of Colombia’s peace agreement in 2016 signaled the end of a decades-long war between the government and the FARC (Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), but also an emerging assault against the country’s forests. This article aims to understand the interactions between forests and peace. In doing so, it traces landscape transformations of deforestation and possibilities for making
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A critical geography approach to land and water use in the tourism economy in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Juan Carlos Graciano; Manuel Ángeles; Alba E. Gámez
This paper offers a critical assessment of how tourism development in the municipality of Los Cabos, Baja California Sur affects land and water use. Los Cabos is a seaside tourism Mecca located at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in Mexico’s northwest. There, subsidised profits and a process of dispossession in the tourism sector have to do mainly with land and water appropriation
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Land-use changes across distant places: design of a telecoupled agent-based model J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-11-17 Yue Dou, James D.A. Millington, Ramon Felipe Bicudo Da Silva, Paul McCord, Andrés Viña, Qian Song, Qiangyi Yu, Wenbin Wu, Mateus Batistella, Emilio Moran, Jianguo Liu
Land-use changes across distant places are increasingly affected by international agricultural trade, but most of the impacts and feedback remain unknown. The telecoupling framework – an analytical tool for examining socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances – can be used to conceptualize the impacts of agricultural trade on land-use change and feedbacks across borders of importing
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Invisible territory: mapping land-use change and power in the Peruvian Amazon J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-11-02 Sarah Sax
This paper follows the evolution of the discourse of agricultural productivity, from its inception in colonial land-use mapping to current land-use changes, using a case study of the expansion of an oil palm company onto the territory of an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon that caused large-scale deforestation. Drawing on analytical tools of political ecology and insights from historical
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Integrating pattern-based modelling and political ecology in land-use change research: the case of Mexican dry tropics J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-10-28 Fernanda Figueroa; Leonardo Calzada; Jorge A. Meave
Agricultural and extractive frontiers experiment rapid landscape transformation. Land-Use Sciences and Political Ecology are complementary approaches for analysing how landscape transformations are related to biophysical conditions, and socioeconomic, cultural and political processes developed at global, national and local scales. This study examines such relationships in a long-standing agrarian and
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Relating imperviousness to building growth and developed area in order to model the impact of peri-urbanization on runoff in a Mediterranean catchment (1964-2014) J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-10-24 Dennis M. Fox, Zahida Youssaf, Cyriel Adnès, Olivier Delestre
Urban growth transforms vegetated lands into impervious surfaces, thereby increasing runoff and peak discharge. In this study, the relationships between building growth, developed area, and impervious area were examined to determine the impact of peri-urbanization on peak discharge. This was modeled for four dates spanning 50 years (1964–2014) in a Mediterranean catchment located in S-E France. Imperviousness
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Correction to “Designing spatiotemporal multifunctional landscapes to support dynamic wildlife conservation” J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-10-23
(2019). Correction to “Designing spatiotemporal multifunctional landscapes to support dynamic wildlife conservation”. Journal of Land Use Science: Vol. 14, Linking Land Architecture and Landscape Ecology for Land Systems Science, pp. 190-190.
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Mining on communal land as a new frontier –a case study of the Kunene Region, Namibia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-10-16 Willem Odendaal; Paul Hebinck
ABSTRACT This paper is about mining under communal ownership which makes this kind of mining a new mining frontier. The newness of the frontier is that it has introduced a series of institutional complexities that is uncommon to artisanal and large-scale mining. Mining companies have to negotiate deals with communities and their leaders to be able to prospect for mineral resources. We also argue that
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Deforestation processes in the livestock territory of La Vía Láctea, Matagalpa, Nicaragua J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-10-07 Diego Tobar-López, Muriel Bonin, Hernán J. Andrade, Astrid Pulido, Muhammad Ibrahim
Land-use change is considered one of the main causes of environmental degradation. Thus, its analysis will allow stakeholders to make reasonable decisions for land management. The objective of the present study was to understand the patterns of land-use/land-cover change and deforestation in a territory of importance for livestock development in Nicaragua: La Vía Láctea. The methodology was based on
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Patterns of forest cover change and their association with forest management regimes of forest reserves in the high forest zone of Ghana J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-09-15 Frank Ankomah, Boateng Kyereh, Winston Asante, Michael Ansong
This paper sought to determine how different forest management regimes influence the pattern of forest degradation at different periods in Ghana. The paper tested the hypotheses that timber production forests degrade faster than protection forests and forest degradation slows down with time. For monitoring the changes in forest cover, Landsat TM, ETM+ and Landsat 8 with a spatial resolution of 30 m
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The neglected burden of agricultural intensification: a contribution to the debate on land-use change J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Florencia Arancibia; Renata Campos Motta; Peter Clausing
Between 1992 and 2015 Argentina lost 17% of its tree cover. Regionally, deforestation continues, but net forest loss recently came to a halt. Some scholars argue that this was facilitated by industrial agricultural intensification. This view is debated, but we focus on the neglected costs associated with this intensification. An almost tenfold increase of pesticide use in Argentina during the last
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Linking landscape ecology and land system architecture for land system science: an introduction to the special issue J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-08-30 Amy E. Frazier, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, Peter Kedron, Todd Fagin
Explaining global environmental change requires an understanding of the relationships that exist between social systems and the natural environment. Creating integrative research frameworks capable of explaining these coupled human and natural systems has been a central activity in this long-standing intellectual project. One way to advance framework development is to focus on relationships among people
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Assessing the capacity of three Bolivian food systems to provide farm-based agroecosystem services J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-08-19 Horacio Augstburger; Stephan Rist
Food system activities have modified 40% of the Earth’s terrestrial surface. These activities affect the sustainability of food systems – and their ability to provide agroecosystem services. Here, we compare three food systems in Bolivia. One is agro-industrial (soybean), one is indigenous to a Guarani community (maize and beans), and one is an agroecological, horticulture-based food system. We use
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New ‘renewable’ frontiers: contested palm oil plantations and wind energy projects in Brazil and Mexico J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-08-16 Maria Backhouse; Rosa Lehmann
This paper argues that new land conflict frontiers are emerging in the context of renewable energy production. The novel aspect of these frontiers is a ‘green’ framing of the use of land considered ‘degraded’, expressing it as a climate protection strategy, and consequently causing similar dynamics of conflict in different regions. With reference to political ecology debates on the notion of frontiers
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Village-scale reserves in the forest frontier regions of Chenes and Calakmul, Mexico J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-08-03 John Kelly
Sketch-map-facilitated interviews were conducted in 23 villages in two adjacent regions in the southern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico – the Maya (and increasingly Mennonite) forest-agriculture mosaic of the Chenes, and the late-20th-century-settlement forest frontier of Calakmul – to determine the frequency and typology of local-scale reserves, including the external (e.g. Payments for Environmental
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Governing intensification: the influence of state institutions on smallholder farming strategies in Calakmul, Mexico J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Carlos Dobler-Morales; R. Roy Chowdhury; B. Schmook
In forest frontiers, smallholder agrarian livelihoods remain uneasily juxtaposed with conservation interests. Agricultural intensification is often considered a viable means of reconciling competing environmental and livelihood objectives given its potential to concentrate production on less land. However, intensification may have unintended consequences, including loss of resilient agricultural systems
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Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Tracy Hruska
(2020). Evolving patterns of agricultural frontier expansion in Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert: a political ecology approach. Journal of Land Use Science: Vol. 15, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Transformations at Extractive and Agrarian Frontiers in Latin America, pp. 270-289.
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Spatial determinants and future land use scenarios of Paragominas municipality, an old agricultural frontier in Amazonia J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-07-24 Reinis Osis, François Laurent, René Poccard-Chapuis
This paper analyzes the role of the main spatial determinants of land use dynamics and simulates past and future scenarios of land use in Paragominas, an old agricultural frontier in Amazonia. Deforestation rates have been reduced since 2007–2008 but soybean cropping and tree plantations are currently undergoing intense expansion. During this transition period, deforestation has shifted from areas
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Ten years of contested enforcement of the Forest Law in Salta, Argentina. The role of land-change science and political ecology J. Land Use Sci. (IF 1.106) Pub Date : 2019-07-24 A. G. J. Salas Barboza; J. M. Cardón Pocoví; C. Venencia; L. L. Huaranca; J. L. Agüero; M. A. Iribarnegaray; M. Escosteguy; J. N. Volante; L. Seghezzo
In this study, we present a critical account of the enforcement of the Forest Law in the Province of Salta, Argentina. We discuss whether the objectives of this law were accomplished and we analyze the role that some technical tools, coupled with specific theoretical approaches, could play in its future enforcement. We illustrate our analysis with data from a case study in the Chaco region of this
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