land use change

Identifying where and when urban renewal occurs: a continuous change detection-based framework using two decades' worth of Landsat data

Urban Renewal & Remote Sensing 🏙️ What if satellites could tell us when a city breathes, rebuilds, and transforms? A new study used 20 years of Landsat satellite data to map urban renewal in Beijing—capturing not just where old buildings were torn down and rebuilt, but when and how fast the changes happened.

Cropland abandonment in the community-forestry landscape in the middle hills of Nepal

This paper aims to understand how feedbacks from the natural system influence cropland-use decisions at the household level in the human system, focusing on cropland abandonment under community forest management in Nepal.

Divergent social-ecological outcomes of payments for ecosystem services

Related publications reforestaion policy, labor migration, and forest dynamics (Zhang et al. 2020)

Interaction between land use change and labor migration under forest conservation

Examining the effects of green revolution led agricultural expansion on net ecosystem service values in India using multiple valuation approaches

Examining effects of climate change and land use dynamic on biophysical and economic values of ecosystem services of a natural reserve region

Responses of ecosystem services to natural and anthropogenic forcings in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem

An efficient approach to capture continuous impervious surface dynamics using spatial-temporal rules and dense Landsat time series stacks

Effects of payment for ecosystem services and agricultural subsidy programs on rural household land use decisions in China: Synergy or trade-off?

Projections of future land use changes: Multiple scenarios-based impacts analysis on ecosystem services for Wuhan city, China