The ability to incorporate and manage the different drivers of land-use change in a modeling process is one of the key challenges because they are complex and are both quantitative and qualitative in nature. This paper uses Bayesian belief networks (BBN) to incorporate characteristics of land managers in the modeling process and to enhance our understanding of land-use change based on the limit...

Although land use planning and urban design are increasingly touted as powerful tools for influencing transportation behavior, only modest empirical evidence for this relationship exists. Here, the results from a two-day activity diary are combined with innovative GIS-based measures of urban form and land use pattern to statistically test potential influences on noncommute home-based mode choic...

Urban form plays a critical role in shaping the spatial differentiation of land surface temperature (LST). However, limited research has investigated underlying driving forces and interactions multidimensional urban form, specifically considering two-dimensional (2D) use three-dimensional (3D) buildings, on LST. Furthermore, their multi-scale outcomes remain unclear. Taking main area Wuhan City...

changes in land use can significantly influence the hydrological cycle and hence affect water resources. understanding the impacts of land use changes on hydrology response at the watershed scale can facilitate development of sustainable water resources strategies. this paper investigates the hydrological effects of land use change in the zanjanroodbasinofiran, during last 40 years. the study r...

Landownership is an important form of wealth, especially in a natural-resource dependent region such as the Black Belt of Alabama. We examine the connection between property ownership, land cover, and the wellbeing of communities in Macon County, Alabama. This study is an exploratory application of geographic information systems to integrate information from property tax assessment records, lan...

We propose a framework with endogenous allocation of land between agricultural production, sustainable forest management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and timber supplies when property rights are insecure. Uncertainty over property rights arises through risk of confiscation on sustainably-managed forest land, and ...