Measuring organic carbon (OC) losses from soils presents a challenge because of the intricate interplay of human-induced and biophysical processes that govern its transfer from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. This study employed a modeling approach to enhance our comprehension of human...

The increasing occurrence of floods due to global climate change poses challenges to the growth of urban resilience. However, research on how to avoid flood risks in the process of long-term and detailed land use development is limited. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method that...

Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil has been standing for a critical global traded product in terms of embodied deforestation. The European Union (EU) is one of the major players in...

This essay serves as the introduction for an edited, interdisciplinary symposium of articles studying recent land use reforms at the state and local level. These papers provide important descriptive analyses of a range of policy interventions, using quantitative and qualitative methods to...

Land urbanization has been widely identified as an important driver that influences the structure of land use, thereby causing changes in the order of land-use systems. Therefore, this study adopted the land cover data from MCD12Q1 products to estimate the land-use intensity (Lui) and...

Land and water degradation caused by soil erosion and climate change pose major environmental threats, particularly in agricultural watershed like Kakia-Esamburmbur. Soil erosion in the catchment has led to decreasing crop yields due to a declining soil quality, productivity and sustainability....