Land-Cover and Land-Use Change at the Frontier: Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors Influencing Land Cover and Land-Use Changes in the Cerrado Biome
Characterizing land-use transitions helps combat climate change impacts and informs land-use policy
- The most biologically diverse savanna on earth is a major frontier of LCLUC
- It is yet unknown where high-impact land-use transitions are concentrated and the main drivers of those changes
- Urgent need to develop detection methods and novel data sets to inform decision-making a to address biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change impacts
- Use of Earth Observation data, time series analyses, and machine learning algorithms to expand the spatial and temporal data on agricultural development and a novel data set on irrigated agriculture in combination with spatial analyses of socioeconomic influences
