From pattern to process: landscape fragmentation and the analysis of land use/land cover change |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, 408 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA;2. Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, 450 McEniry, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA;3. Department of Geography and Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI), University of Florida, PO Box 117315, 3141 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-7315, USA;1. Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran;2. Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 46414-356, Noor, Mazandaran, 46417-76489, Iran;1. Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China;2. Key Laboratory of Smart City and Environmental Modeling of Higher Education Institute, College of Resources and Environment Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China;3. Engineering Research Center of Central Asia Geoinformation Development and Utilization, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Urumqi 830002, China;4. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA;1. School of Engineering, John Muir Building, The King''s Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland, United Kingdom;2. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa;3. Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela University, PO Box 77000, Port Elizabeth 6019, South Africa;4. Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa;1. Ambo University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Department of Biology, Ethiopia;2. Ambo University, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Department of Land Administration and Surveying, Ethiopia;1. School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia;2. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia;3. Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK;1. Technische Universität München(TUM), Germany;2. INES-Ruhengeri, Rwanda |
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| Abstract: | The incorporation of landscape ecological and fragmentation analyses within remote sensing science has expanded the inferential capabilities of such research. This issue presents a series of papers on the use of landscape ecological techniques to explore the relationship between land cover and land use spatial pattern and process in an international, comparative context. Methodologically, researchers seek to link spatial pattern to land use process by integrating geographic information systems (GIS), socio-economic, and remote sensing techniques with landscape ecological approaches. This issue brings together papers at the forefront of this research effort, and illustrates the diversity of methods necessary to evaluate the complex linkages between pattern and process in landscapes across the world. The analyses focus on major forces interacting at the earth’s surface, such as the interface of agricultural and urban land, agriculture and forestry, and other pertinent topics dealing with environmental policy and management. Empirical analyses stem from many different ecological, social and institutional contexts within the Americas, Africa, and Asia. |
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