TY - JOUR
T1 - The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
AU - Turner, B. L.
AU - Lambin, Eric F.
AU - Reenberg, Anette
PY - 2007/12/26
Y1 - 2007/12/26
N2 - Land change science has emerged as a fundamental component of global environmental change and sustainability research. This interdisciplinary field seeks to understand the dynamics of land cover and land use as a coupled human-environment system to address theory, concepts, models, and applications relevant to environmental and societal problems, including the intersection of the two. The major components and advances in land change are addressed: observation and monitoring; understanding the coupled system - causes, impacts, and consequences; modeling; and synthesis issues. The six articles of the special feature are introduced and situated within these components of study.
AB - Land change science has emerged as a fundamental component of global environmental change and sustainability research. This interdisciplinary field seeks to understand the dynamics of land cover and land use as a coupled human-environment system to address theory, concepts, models, and applications relevant to environmental and societal problems, including the intersection of the two. The major components and advances in land change are addressed: observation and monitoring; understanding the coupled system - causes, impacts, and consequences; modeling; and synthesis issues. The six articles of the special feature are introduced and situated within these components of study.
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0704119104
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0704119104
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18093934
AN - SCOPUS:38049134453
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 104
SP - 20666
EP - 20671
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 52
ER -