The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
Land change science has emerged as a fundamental component of global environmental change and sustainability research. This interdisciplinary field seeks to understand the dynamics of land cover and land use as a coupled human–environment system to ad- dress theory, concepts, models, and applications relevant to environmental and societal problems, including the intersection of the two. The major components and advances in land change are addressed: observation and monitoring; understanding the coupled system—causes, impacts, and consequences; modeling; and synthesis issues. The six articles of the special feature are introduced and situated within these components of study.
Credits: PNAS December 26, 2007
Fair Use OK
DOWNLOAD FILE — PDF document, 428 kB (438,972 bytes)
