This study analyzes the characteristics of land use/land cover change in Jordan’s Irbid governorate, 1984–2018, and predicts future land use/land cover for 2030 and 2050 using a cellular automata-Markov model. The results inform planners and decision makers of past and current spatial dynamics of land use/land cover change and predicted urban expansion, for a better understanding and successful...

Managing human-dominated landscapes such as agroecosystems is one of the main challenges facing society today. Decisions about land-use management in agroecosystems involve spatial and temporal trade-offs. The key scales at which these tradesoffs occur are poorly understood for most systems, and quantitative assessments of the services provided by agroecosystems under different combinations of ...

A land classification method was designed for the Community of Madrid (CM), which has lands suitable for either agriculture use or natural spaces. The process started from an extensive previous CM study that contains sets of land attributes with data for 122 types and a minimum-requirements method providing a land quality classification (SQ) for each land. Borrowing some tools from Operations R...

Abstract Decadal changes in land use/land cover for Balachaur watershed in Nawanshahar district, Punjab, India were studied using black and white aerial photographs for March 1984 on approximately 1:20,000 scale and multidate geocoded false colour composites (FCC) of IRS-1D LISS-III on 1:50,000 scale for March 2002, September 2002, and May 2003 and interpreted visually to prepare land use/land...

Land degradation threatens food production especially in smallholder farming systems predominant sub-Saharan Africa. Monitoring the effects of agricultural land uses is critical to guide sustainable intensification (SI). There are various indicators use (SLU), but conventional methods quantify their metrics complex and difficult deploy for rapid large-scale assessments. Considering that SLU dep...

In recent decades, the land use changes induced by various economic activities in agricultural ecosystems have affected many aspects of human life. This is reason why change considered as one agriculture-related environmental impacts a sustainability assessment food and bio-based products. At same time, methodology applied for quantification effects still under intensive research, stimulating s...