Land Use and Land Cover Change
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Land Use / Land Cover Change

Overview

Recent Accomplishments

Near-Term Plans

Archived News Postings [November 2002 - July 2005]

Related Sites

Calls for Proposals

For long term plans, see chapter on Land Use / Land Cover Change of the draft Strategic Plan posted on web site of US Climate Change Science Program

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center,
Global Change Data and Information Products: Land-Use and Ecosystems

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes.  The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is a non-governmental research organization located in Austria. The institute conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Scenarios.  From Chapter 3 of Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. 

Land Use and Cover Change Project.   Program Element of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).  Includes links page.

NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Program.   Includes list of links.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Global Change Program Office. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Landscape Ecology Branch. 

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Cover Characterization Program.  Includes links page