Land Resources
Research on land-use and land-cover changes
focus on: 1) the processes that determine
temporal and spatial distributions of land-cover
and land-use at local, regional, and global
scales; and how and how well land-use and
land-cover can be projected over time scales
of 5 to 50 years; and 2) how changes in land-use,
management, and cover affect local, regional,
and global environmental and socioeconomic
conditions, including economic welfare and
human health, taking socioeconomic factors
and potential technological change into consideration.
Specific foci will:
- identify and quantify human drivers of
land-use and land-cover change;
- improve monitoring, measuring, and mapping
land-use and land-cover, and the management
of these data; and
- develop projections of land-cover and
land-use change under various scenarios
of climate, demographic, economic, and
technological trends.
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