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Land Change

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We analyzed the progresses of land change research in the world with bibliometric method in this chapter. In the past 15 years, land change research worldwide mainly concerned the observation and monitoring, driving forces and causal mechanism, and environmental effect of land change. China produced many influential achievements in observation and monitoring based on remote sensing, influence of urbanization on land change and the impacts of land change on soil environment. NSFC tended to support the researches of urban land expansion, effects of urbanization and policy, and the impacts of land change on soil.

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Zhu, H., Song, W. (2017). Land Change. In: The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_10

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