Conservation decisions should be evaluated for how they meet conservation goals at multiple spatial extents. Conservation easements are land use decisions resulting from a combination of social and environmental conditions. An emerging area of research is the evaluation of spatial distribution of easements and their spatial correlates. We tested the relative influence of interacting social and ...

This paper adds to a sparse but growing literature on the economic costs and benefits of hosting refugees, including unique policy providing refugees with access cultivable land. We construct general equilibrium model from microsurvey data simulate spillover effects giving land income production in host-country economy surrounding refugee settlement Uganda. Reduced-form econometric analysis all...

doi 10.1002/gea.21532 Fresh water availability was an important variable that influenced prehistoric human settlement on California’s northern Channel Islands. Previous attempts to understand settlement on the islands use watershed size as a proxy for water at canyon mouths. In semi-arid regions, this approach has limitations because streams may lose much or all of their flow to groundwater. We...

The spatial distribution of populations and settlements across a country and their interconnectivity and accessibility from urban areas are important for delivering healthcare, distributing resources and economic development. However, existing spatially explicit population data across Africa are generally based on outdated, low resolution input demographic data, and provide insufficient detail ...

An important goal of regional development in the BrazilianAmazonwas to enhance social welfare and alleviate dire poverty in other parts of the country by providing land to the poor.Nevertheless, both poverty and landlessness have persisted despite development policies that distributed billions of dollars on highway construction, loans, and outright subsidies. Inequitable land distribution has b...

Understanding changes in land use cover is essential managing and monitoring natural resources development, particularly where urbanization expanding. In present study, describes use/land (LU/LC) mapping change detection analysis of Mettupalayam taluk Coimbatore district Tamil Nadu. Estimation ArcGIS for LU/LC classification from LANSAT images, the best method classifier different features were...

Centennial-scale climate-ecosystem feedbacks are a major source of predictive uncertainty for land-atmosphere fluxes of energy, carbon, and water. Accurate representations of plant functional type (PFT) distributions through time and space are required for modeling centennial-scale feedbacks within Earth system models (ESMs). We tested the ability of ESMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison ...