Based on cross-sectional telephone survey data collected, the study assesses the degree to which demographic and place-based factors are associated with changing public opinions on climate change, wolves, renewable energy, and land development regulations in rural northeast Oregon.
Using a 14-year MODIS time series, between 2000 and 2014, the study calculated statistical trends in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI—a spectral index representing vegetation cover) to identify areas where vegetation cover has either increased or decreased. There are 125 study areas chosen where statistically significant changes in NDVI were found and used time series of monthly rainfall, Landsat images, Google Earth images and environmental GIS layers to identify the type and cause of landscape changes.
In this paper, the authors use scenarios of climate change, urbanization and management to simulate the future dynamics of the critically endangered and fire-dependent longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem.
To examine the relationship between drought and migration decision-making at the household level, the paper focuses on two geographic areas: the Prairie region of Southeastern Alberta, where drought conditions were severe and population declines were relatively high; and the northwestern Alberta, which received an influx of migrants from the drought-stricken areas.
In this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is proposed and analyzed to study the depletion of forest resources caused by population and the corresponding population pressure.
Based on the results on this study, the authors suggest that socioeconomic factors might be the main cause of landscape transformations in the Eastern Pyrenees Between 1953 and 2000.
In this paper, the authors using both landscape ecology and the human demographics of the northwest Wisconsin Pine Barrens region as basis, discussed landscape level management options of the region.
The article explores the influences of population and demographic change on the vulnerability and socio-economic well-being of communities to climate change and variability.
Article quantifies the effect of Native American settlements on the composition of forest trees.
In the report, the goal is to improved the diagnosis of the causes of forest loss and its relation to forest poverty.
