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Land Use Science in Action

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Smallholder agriculture productivity must increase in Ethiopia to meet the demands of a growing population to avert food insecurity

CONTINUED FOREST PROTECTION MUST BE CORE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  • Carbon payment mechanisms to incentive sustainable forest management have an impact on forest loss
  • Analyses integrating remote sensing and socioeconomic data can quantify the effectiveness of Village Sustainability Planning program on forest and land use
  • With the rise carbon payment mechanisms for forest conservation, urgent need for such analyses is needed to inform current and future sustainable planning
  • NASA’s role in Earth observation is essential for measuring and monitoring global investments in carbon markets
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Village Sustainable Planning and its influence on tropical forestry outcomes in Guyana

CONTINUED FOREST PROTECTION MUST BE CORE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  • Carbon payment mechanisms to incentive sustainable forest management have an impact on forest loss
  • Analyses integrating remote sensing and socioeconomic data can quantify the effectiveness of Village Sustainability Planning program on forest and land use
  • With the rise carbon payment mechanisms for forest conservation, urgent need for such analyses is needed to inform current and future sustainable planning
  • NASA’s role in Earth observation is essential for measuring and monitoring global investments in carbon markets
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The global wildland-urban interface

A systematic assessment of global areas of potential direct human-environmental conflict

  • The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is where houses and wildland vegetation meet.
  • The WUI is an area of human-environmental conflict such as wildfire.
  • Our new analysis mapped the WUI globally at 10-m resolution from satellite data.
  • The WUI covers 4.7% of the global land and is home to half the global population.
  • WUI hotspots on all continents in including the US, Eastern Africa, and South-East Asia.
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Hotter and drier growing seasons in Serbia are driving shifts in agricultural practices and irrigation decisions

POTENTIAL INCREASES IN WATER SCARCITY AS THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ADAPTS

  • Water scarcity in agricultural regions is worsening as the Earth warms.
  • Urgent need for local and regional analyses to formulate precision adaptation measures.
  • Analyses integrating remote sensing, hydrological modeling, and economic modeling can
    project future water scarcity and farmers’ responses via crop choice and irrigation investment.
  • NASA’s Earth observations are critical to track short-term (crop growth and seasonal water
    use) and long-term (crop system transitions, irrigation investment) agricultural responses to
    drought and target climate adaptation measures.