Sentences with phrase «assessing global land use»

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It is worth noting in passing that this lack suggests an important global - level policy recommendation, namely, the world's nations should commit to assessing land / ecosystem degradation using standardized methods to enable us to apply a «sustainability factor» to our present eco-Footprint estimates.

This article investigates this hypothesis by assessing whether global changes caused by human use of land are mostly recent and result from processes that are now accelerating.

We use spatially explicit methods and publicly available global data sets to assess (i) the land area and population distribution in the LECZ and (ii) people living in the 100 - year flood plain for three points in time: For a baseline year (2000) and for the years 2030 and 2060.