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Land-Use Change Scenarios

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Land-use transformation

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Land use refers to how people make use of the land. It also refers to specifying how land is used. Land use encompasses patterns, activities, and inputs that are utilized by people in a certain type of land cover for production operation or its change and protection (Jansen and Gregorio 1998). Land-use change means changes in how a land is used. This change is not necessarily confined to the changes in land surface, but it includes the changes in land density and management too (Ziari 2007).

Introduction

The earth is the place where human activities are done. The use of this resource is called land use that provides different situations depending on goals like food production, shelter supply, and material extraction and processing, as well as biophysical characteristics of the land (Mehrabi et al. 2013). Land use is dictated by two components: basic living requirements of human being and bioenvironmental attributes and processes. Currently,...

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  1. Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

    Amir Ahmadpour

  2. Department of Natural Resources and Watershed Management of Golestan Province, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

    Mohamad Reza Shahraki

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, The University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari

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Ahmadpour, A., Shahraki, M.R. (2020). Land-Use Change Scenarios. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_31

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