Distinct Impacts of Land Use and Land Management on Summer Temperatures

Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands

This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Global change is more than just climate change and the ramifications of changing trade patterns (geopolitical and economic aspects), the shift to the market economy, demographic factors (...

Microclimate land surface temperatures across urban land use/ land cover forms

Urbanization brings biophysical changes in the composition of the landscape. Such change has an impact on the thermal environment locally. The urban mosaic of land use and land cover is thus characteristically composed of local climate zones. The spatial variation in the land surface temperature across specific zone is studied for Bhopal city. The objective of the study was to understand how th...

Land use impacts on surface water quality by statistical approaches

Surface waters are the most important economic resource for humans which provide water for agricultural, industrial and anthropogenic activities. Surface water quality plays vital role in protecting aquatic ecosystems. Unplanned urbanization, intense agricultural activities and deforestation are positively associated with carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous related water quality parameters. Multip...

Land-use, Land-cover Changes and Global Aggregate Impacts

Watershed impacts of climate and land use changes depend on magnitude and land use context

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN, USA Center for Integrated Forest Science, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, USDA Forest Se...