Mangroves dwell at the land-ocean interface and are thus encroached upon by competing land use at the coastal zone. They are also subject to impacts from catchments developments. As a result, mangroves worldwide are having their extension changed (Spalding et al, 1997). Worldwide it is well accepted that mangrove extension is decreasing mostly due to conversion to other uses, in particular aqua...

Urban agriculture offers an alternative land use for integrating multiple functions in densely populated areas. While urban agriculture has historically been an important element of cities in many developing countries, recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries including the United States. In these region...

owing to the vital effects of future land use changes, it is necessary to predict land use growth pattern before any decision making by the authorities and decision makers. purpose of this research is to model land use change of kohmare scorch plain of shiraz province using ordinary least squares regression (ols) for pre-processing variables and modeling using neural networks. to perform this m...

Changes in land use and agriculture have occurred frequently during the last millennium in Europe. Now at the start of the millennium a review of how and why changes took place may lead to a better understanding of these developments. This insight based on scientific analysis and understanding may be combined with explorative studies to gain a view on future possibilities. Such an explorative s...

this study aimed to determine the effect of land use changes from rangeland to horti-agricultural lands on the most important qualitative characteristics of soil such as total soil carbon and particulate organic matter, in salavatabad region, sanandaj. in the present study, one rangeland, two cultivated pea lands, two cultivated wheat lands and two gardens were selected in growth season in the ...

South Carolina is the nation's second largest coastal resort state in terms of beach destination trips, superseded only by Florida. Its coastal resources and tourism industry are now undergoing tremendous coastal change due to tourism development and associated commercial and residential growth. As the negative elements of coastal change draw more public attention, and sustainable development b...