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In many Sub-Saharan African countries, fuelwood collection is among the most important drivers of deforestation and particularly forest degradation.
Land use patterns are the consequence of dynamic processes that often include important legacy issues. Evaluation of past trends can be used to investigate the role of path dependence in influencing future land use through a reference “business as usual” (BAU) scenario.
International agreements on climate change have highlighted the role of land in climate and human dynamics, making it an issue of global importance.
Conservation thinking will benefit from the incorporation of a resilience perspective of landscapes as social-ecological systems that are continually changing due to both internal dynamics and in response to external factors such as a changing climate.
Land cover modeling is used to inform land management, but most often via a two-step process, where science informs how management alternatives can influence resources, and then, decision makers can use this information to make decisions.
The urban and the rural are increasingly interconnected. Rural areas have become places of consumption, as leisure and recreation have become important functions of rural areas.
In the United States, urbanization processes have resulted in a large variety—or “continuum”—of urban landscapes.
The predominant environmental consciousness in both the United States and China reflects an underlying sense of separation of people from nature. Likewise, traditional landscape paintings in the United States and China share a common underlying aesthetic—i.e., the “picturesque”.
Tallgrass prairie once occupied 67.6 million hectares in the North American Midwest but less than 0.1% remains today.