Abstract
Human actions are altering the terrestrial environment at unprecedented rates, magnitudes, and spatial scales. Land-cover change stemming from human and uses represents a major source and a major element of global environmental change. An international and interdisciplinary agenda is currently being developed to address these issues, through several closely-connected foci of study. A division of the world according to common situations of environment, human driving forces, and land-cover dynamics will be followed by detailed study of the processes at work within each situation. The results will form the basis for a concurrent effort to develop a global land model that can offer projections of patterns of land transformation. -from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Ambio |
| Pages | 91-95 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Edition | 1 |
| State | Published - 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Engineering