Activities of LUCC-IPO
Annual Report 2001
International Project Office of the ‘Land-Use and Land-Cover
Change’ (LUCC) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions
Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
Département de Géographie
Université Catholique de Louvain
3, pl. Pasteur
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Contents
1 – Promotion of LUCC Science
2- Outreach Activities
3 – Regional Networks & Endorsed Projects
4 – Transition to Land Change Science
5 - Meetings at which Project was Presented
6 - Publications
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Promotion of LUCC Science
1.1
Identification of gaps and prioritisation of research
LUCC-IPO assisted the chair in convening the LUCC Scientific Steering Committee Meeting
in Wavre, Belgium, 11-13 January 2001, took responsibilities for follow-up activities, and has assisted
in organising the LUCC SSC Meeting in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 11-13 April 2002. A working
paper on identification of gaps and prioritisation of LUCC research was worked out on the basis of the
Wavre Meeting minutes. It got published in IGBP Newsletter #46 in June, was given on to LUCC’s
homepage in July, and became part of LUCC’s position paper in the restructuration of IGBP.
1.2
Dialogue with funding agencies
LUCC-IPO was in dialogue with:
 European Commission (EC), Research Directorate General, Units Global Change & Biodiversity,
and Environment: study course proposal on LUCC modelling, conference and workshop
proposals, input into a soil strategy paper.
 European Space Agency (ESA): proposals for Earth Explorer Opportunity Missions.
 European Science Foundation (ESF): distribution of LUCC relevant calls for proposal.
 Asia-Pacific Network (APN): future management of proposal reviews.
 Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START): regional IHDP/LUCC
initiative for West Africa, recruitment of participants for Amsterdam OSC, distribution of award
announcements.
 US National Science Foundation (NSF): exploration of opportunities of focussed NSF funding of
LUCC activities.
 International Council for Science (ICSU): contribution to the ICSU/GEC global programmes
initiative as part of the Rio+10 planning process in the form of a LUCC position paper on
sustainable land development.
 NASA’s Land Use and Land Cover Change programme: scientific collaboration and review of ongoing projects.
1.3
Coordination of data efforts
To develop a data strategy in order to access and produce needed data sets, LUCC-IPO
collaborated with IHDP’s Sustainability Geoscope Preparatory Project (global observation system for
the emergent ‘Anthropocene’)
1.4
Standardization of methodologies, definition of experimental protocols
The Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) methodology of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was recommended by the LUCC SCC to the wider
community through a research report and newsletter/web information. FAO’s Africover Project, the
finalisation of which made possible LCCS, got endorsed.
Based on a meta-analyis of tropical deforestation cases, LUCC-IPO together with chair
designed and published an improved framework for causative factor analysis in land change science.
1.5
Synthesis and state-of-the-art papers
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Major recent progress in and priority tasks for future land-use change research as outcome
of the Janurary SSC Meeting got published in LUCC and IGBP newsletters.
A special journal got published on state-of-the-art in land use change modelling and was
distributed to SSC members and leaders of LUCC endorsed projects.
An international journal article got published on causes, drivers and pathways of land
change as outcome of the March 2000 LUCC synthesis workshop.
At several occasions, LUCC-IPO assisted in reviewing contributions of individual SSC
members to IGBP’s Earth System Overview (ESO).
1.6
Collaborations
LUCC-IPO contributed to IHDP’s urbanisation initiative through a position paper, focussed
announcements and recruitment of Third World participants.
It assisted IGBP’s secretariat to have included most recent and important LUCC results on
their website (‘science highlights’) and in science (synthesis) publications.
Mainly through its Focus 1 Office, it collaborated with ‘Past Global Changes’ (PAGESIGBP) to bridge the gap between global databases and local studies in cooperation with palaeo
researchers and environmental historians, and with ‘Human Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems’
(HITE-PAGES) to better include results from ‘Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems
During The Period of Agriculture’ (LUCIFS).
It collaborated with ‘Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems’ (GCTE-IGBP) to organise
LUCC input into several workshops (carbon, biodiversity), to run joint EU-COST actions on historical
reconstruction, non-linear land change and coupling of land-use with soil erosion models, and to
launch joint project activities in the fields of biodiversity, landscape fragmentation, fire dynamics,
land degradation and land use change modelling.
Together with the chair, it provided ‘Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling’ (GAIMIGBP) with a short paper synthesizing major recent progress in and priority tasks for future LUCC
research.
It submitted to ‘Data & Information System’ (DIS-IGBP) databases of the global historical
cropland development (BIOME 300 initiative) to be included into IGBP’s digital atlas project.
It collaborated with ‘Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change’ (IDGECIHDP) to review a Forest Scoping Paper, discussed joint IDGEC-LUCC proposals, forwarded requests
for collaborative research in the field of environmental law, discussed specific pathways of future
collaboration (case study comparison, joint workshops), and provided IDGEC-IPO with information
on specifics of funding an international project office.
Common project endorsements by LUCC-IPO and ‘Industrial Transformation’ (IT-IHDP)
were done in the field of food production and (dis)intensification in land use.
LUCC-IPO collaborated with IHDP’s GeoScope through submission of potential
collaborators and input into several workshops.
It provided specifics of how to run an international project office to its local host university
for the potential establishement of an ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’ (IPCC) focus
office at LUCC-IPO’s host university.
In collaboration with selected SSC members, LUCC-IPO worked out and circulated a
rationale containing pros & cons of future involvement in the ‘Millenium Ecosystem Assessment’
(MA), submitted names and contacts of potential collaborators to MA, and committed itself to
produce a 10-years global map of land cover change hot spots.
LUCC-IPO established closer relations to the LUCC Study Group of the International
Geographical Union (IGU) through membership and joint development of IGU-LUCC workshop
rationals.
LUCC produced a paper for preparation of the ICSU meeting in Paris on Science and
Sustainable Development.
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2Outreach Activities
2.1
Comparative case studies
LUCC-IPO gave Research Report #4 (meta-analysis of 152 deforestation cases) in review,
reworked, published and distributed the report (paper and web version). Based on the case study
comparison, LUCC-IPO together with chair designed and published an improved framework for
causative factor analysis in land change science.
LUCC-IPO started a meta-analysis of desertification cases (causes, drivers, indicators),
complementing Focus 1 Office work on agricultural intensification.
2.2
Regional and thematic electronic conferences
Besides day-to-day electronic activities, LUCC-IPO signed up and participated in regional
and thematic electronic conferences (‘Land use change and intensification in mountain areas of
Africa’, IHDP’s and IUSSP’s Population-Environment Research Network).
In collaboration with the endorsed ‘Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project’
(HERO), means were were set up for virtual conferences between LUCC SSC Meetings (remote
collaboration including synchronous and asynchronous conferencing, and automated Delphi).
2.3
Regional workshops
LUCC-IPO participated in a Ricamare regional network workshop (Medenine, Tunisia, 2021 April 2001),
It assisted in recruiting participants for the Open Symposium of the LUTEA network and
the TEA Regional Committee for START (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 28 June-1 July 2001), for the
GOFC Regional Workshop on Remote Sensing of Forest Cover in Northwestern Russia and
Fennoscandia (Russian Academy of Sciences, 25-27 June 2001).
It collaborated with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) on two workshops (late 2001,
early 2002) to discuss state-of-the-art research.
2.4
Focused workshops
LUCC-IPO assisted chair, focus offices and/or individual SSC members in preparation
and/or implementation of workshops such as the initial planning meeting of ‘Human Impacts on
Terrestrial Ecosystems’ (HITE, 14-16 June 2001, Bern), ‘Biodiversity and Spatial complexity’ (early
2002, Giessen), ‘Land use scenarios and climate at regional scales’ (early 2002, Utrecht or Brussels),
‘Socio-economic factors and soil erosion’ (early 2002, Brussels), ‘Natural and Historical archives: soil
erosion and global change’ (Firenze, 23-26 Oct 2002), ‘Linking household and remotely sensed data:
Methodological and practical problems’ (3-8 January 2002, Honolulu).
It contributed to several scoping workshops of IHDP’s Geoscope initiative (Weilburg, 1011 September 2001, Berlin, 25-26 October 2001) by attendance, to IHDP’s capacity building
workshop on ‘Urbanisation and the transition to sustainability’ (Bonn, 3-12 June 2002) by working
out rationale and securing announcement (website, newsletter, database search).
2.5
Open Science Conferences
LUCC-IPO was involved in bringing together the scientific community at four major
international conferences, and supported the implementation of other conferences in 2002 and 2003.
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‘Challenges of a Changing Earth’, Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, 1013 July 2001: agenda development (parallel and poster sessions), provision of key speaker in
plenary with materials from LUCC projects, distribution of announcement, recruitment of
participants, preparation of background documents, approach of potential funding agencies,
publication of results (GeoJournal, several newsletters), contribution to media campaign, and
active participation (parallel session talks, poster clusters).
‘Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Period of Globalization’, Prague, 14-20 July 2001:
contribution to conference rationale.
‘International Conference on Land Use/Cover Change Dynamics’, Beijing, 26-30 August 2001:
representation in International Scientific Steering Committee, distribution of announcement,
recruitment of participants, and active participation (keynote address).
‘Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research’, Rio de
Janeiro, 6-8 October 2001: distribution of announcement, and recruitment of participants.
‘International Symposium on LUCC Contribution to Asian Environmental Problems’, Tokyo,
13-14 December 2001: provision of the newly established Focus 2 Office (in Japan) with digital
project presentation materials to inform LUCC Japan Committee and Science Council of Japan.
‘Land Use and Land Cover Change’, Symposium at the Regional Conference of the
International Geographical Union (IGU), Durban, 4-7 August 2002: contribution to session
rationale.
‘Framing Land Use Dynamics’, Utrecht, 16-18 April 2003: provision of endorsement and
organisation of LUCC input (scientific steering committee, database for announcement).
Newsletter, reports, website, and database
In the period considered, LUCC-IPO produced two newsletters sent out to ca. 2400 users:
 No. 6 : May 2001, 32 pp, mainly featuring endorsed research projects.
 No. 7 : December 2001, 16 pp, outline of priority questions for future research, and others.
The newsletters are available on the website in pdf format.
In the period considered, LUCC-IPO completed, gave into review and produced one
research report (#4, 116 pp., ISSN 1138-7424) on the proximate causes and underlying driving forces
of tropical deforestation.
Database as well as website information (http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/LUCC), mainly
‘calendar’ and endorsed projects, were constantly updated. Currently, the database is being updated
based on a query included in Newsletter #7. The LUCC website was linked to other (new) sites (e.g.,
CIESIN Land Use Thematic Guide, IGBP ‘science highlights’, new IGBP paragraph to announce
LUCC at separate, interlinked page, etc.). Discussions were held with IHDP and IGBP secretariats to
discuss database improvements, make them searcheable, shareable and more user friendly. Efforts
were made to remove old links to former LUCC websites and to make the project number one under
the term ‘LUCC’ in most important search engines.
2.7
Other outreach activities
The necessity of organising a reduced reprint of the Implementation Strategy (in May, 160
out of 5000 copies left) was considered to be of lower importance than investment in generation and
distribution of LUCC science results (research reports, special journal issues, separate prints).
LUCC-IPO arranged with the editor of ‘Land Use Policy’ (Elsevier Science) a special
subscription arrangement for members of the LUCC community (Euro 60, yearly).
LUCC-IPO submitted a successful proposal for an Advanced Study Course (Proposal
#EVK2-2001-00159, European Commission) titled ‘Modelling Land Use Change’ (MODLUC) to be
held at IPO’s host university in 2003. The one-week course, including field trips and a policy panel, is
to bring together 40 postgraduate students and 15 key lecturers to advance the understanding of
modelling of land-use change processes.
LUCC-IPO started to rework and update CIESIN’s web-based Land Use and Global
Environmental Change thematic guide (http://www.ciesin.org/TG/LU/LU-home.html): introductory
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overview, bibliography, deforestation, desertification. The guide of Columbia University's Center for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) provides access to selected scientific
articles, grouped under a series of overview pieces which provide synopses of current issues in the
field.
In the period considered, LUCC-IPO received several visits from members of the SSC,
regional networks, endorsed research projects, partner projects (GCTE, IDGEC), research
organisations and university departments worldwide.
LUCC-IPO constantly answered or forwarded requests for mainly project materials and
research cooperations.
LUCC-IPO provided data for IHDP’s South Participation Inventory. Members of the
LUCC community that are listed in the database were categorized per country, and per workshop at
which they participated. The LUCC database does not contain any explicit information on gender, so
the latter could not be provided.
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Regional Networks & Endorsed Projects
3.1
Regional Networks
In the period considered, LUCC-IPO assisted, mainly in collaboration with START, to
establish two new regional networks (West Africa, Aral Sea Basin) and to implement others
(Mediterranean, Indian coastal regions). It initiated the currently 10 networks in operation to regularly
report in the newsletter and assistend, in collaboration with IGBP and IHDP secretariats, to recruit
participants for Open Science Conference:
 LUCC-IPO, together with Focus 1 Office, communicated with ‘The South East Asia Regional
Committee’ (SARCS) which committed itself to further investigate coding robustness and
reliablity of LCCS (see 1.4).
 LUCC-IPO provided assistance for ‘Coastal Areas and LUCC in the Indian sub-continental
context’ (COSTED) for championing leadership in the region and gave direction for
conceptualising science projects with an immediate possibility to organise training workshops
around LUCC themes, especially capacity building in LUCC modelling.
 LUCC-IPO attended the ‘Ricamare’ workshop and provided assistance for the linkage between
land-use changes and land degradation problems.
 LUCC-IPO provided a letter of support to the ‘Mountain Research Initiative’ (MRI) for a
proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Biocomplexity in the Environment
Program, Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH), called ‘Global Change,
Globalization and the Vulnerability of Mountain Systems’.
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Endorsed Projects
In the period considered, nine projects were newly endorsed, while four project applications
were not taken into consideration. The total of LUCC endorsed projects during the period considered
increased from 30 to 39:
 ‘Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains’: Myron P. Gutmann (Principal
Investigator & Project Coordinator), The University of Texas at Austin, History/Population
Research Center, United States of America: examination of the demographic experience of the
grasslands of the Great Plains and of changes in the environment since 1880, drawing from a
model of recursive change (relevant to Focus 1 and 3).
 ‘How does land use change affect the vulnerability of people and places to climate variation
and change? The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project (HERO)’: Brenton M.
Yarnal (principal co-ordinator), The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography,
United States of America: relevant for science question #6 (LUCC Implementation Strategy)
and provision of case studies under Focus 1 to understand human-environment interactions at
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local and small regional scales in the context of infrastructure development to monitor them
(development of research protocols and data standards).
 ‘Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism’: Helmut Haberl (Principal Investigator &
Project Coordinator), Universities of Innsbruck, Klagenfurt & Vienna, Institute for
Interdisciplinary Research, Social Ecology Department, Austria: relevant to better understand
the links between land use/cover change and changes in socio-economic metabolism as a
driving force, closely relates to Focus 1 issues, and collaborator in IHDP’s GeoScope project.
 FAO’s Africover Project: John Latham (principal contact), Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO), Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN), Italy: the
project made possible FAO’s Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) and provides a study
relevant under Focus 2 (see 1.4).
 ‘ACCLERATES – Assessing Climate Change Effects on Land Use and Ecosystems : From
Regional Analysis to the European Scale’: Mark D. Rounsevell (Project Leader), University of
Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: relevant to understand the rate, extent and dynamics of
agricultural land use change arising from climate, policy and socio-economic pressures, the
impact of agricultural land use and climate change on biological resources, and agroecosystem
vulnerability reflecting both the sensitivity to change and capacity to adapt, in the context of the
relationship between the response of agroecosystems to environmental change and the
management of biological resources in Europe (relates closely to Focus 3 issues).
 ‘Land-use and land-cover change in Africa and SE-Asia – Its causes and implications’: Anette
Reenberg (Principal Investigator), Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
departamental research for studies on land use system in the tropics, i.e., land use and land
cover dynamics and their relation to human resource management, landscape structures,
biogeochemical cycles and water resource managment (studies relevant for Focus 1).
 ‘Land Use Thematic Guide’ (http://www.ciesin.org/TG/LU/LU-home.html): Center for
International Earth Science Information Network, CIESIN, Columbia University, Palisades,
NY, United States of America: a web-based thematic guide addressing various topics of land
use and human dimensions of global environmental change; the guides provide access to
selected scientific articles, grouped under a series of overview pieces which provide synopses of
current issues in the field (relevant for Focus 1 to 3).
 ‘Networks in the Delta – Integrated Research Programme into the Dynamics and Management
of Spatial Interactions between Socio-economic and Environmental Systems in Northwest
Europe’: Martin Dijst and Paul Schot (Project Co-ordinators), Utrecht University, The
Netherlands: studies relevant to enlarge the insight into possible and desirable changes in land
use for sustainable development, to the development of a decision support system of models and
scenarios enabling communication of changes in land use towards policy makers and
stakeholders, and to the development of a generic theoretical and methodological framework as
a scientific basis for interactive (participatory) integrated physical planning and related
legislature at the regional/sub-regional level of the Northwest European Delta Region.
 ‘Contemporary Process of Land Use/Cover Change and its Environmental Effects in China’
(PLUCEE): Xiubin Li (Project Leader), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: studies relevant
(i) to understand the main characteristics, driving forces and functioning mechanisms of land
use change (in those areas of China which experienced rapid change in the past 20 years), (ii) to
appraise the impacts of land use/cover change on water cycle, silt and nutrient erosion (in
medium-scale river basins), and (iii) to clarify the relation of these changes to important
resources and environmental issues with a view of providing advice for policy-making under
the terms of sustainable development (6 case studies from East and West China, including
systematic modelling).
LUCC-IPO raised awareness of Open Science Conferences among the projects, handed out
core LUCC science publications to project leaders, co-organized (endorsed) workshops and
conferences, and recruited key researchers for LUC-IPO training courses (land use change modelling).
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Transition to Land Change Science
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It was recommended at the LUCC Scientific Steering Committee Meeting in Wavre,
Belgium, in January – and confirmed by IGBP and IHDP SCs - that the project will continue in its
present form until 2005, but is given as an additional responsibility the task of interacting more
closely with planning groups in the transition to IGBP II (running from 2003 onwards). For the latter
purpose, the following activities were carried out in the period considered:
 LUCC-SSC responded to the research agenda of the Terrestrial Futures document (June 2000)
by commenting major research questions there and establishing a task force bridging old and
new LUCC science questions. It is LUCC’s understanding that the jointly sponsored project per
se, settled at the interface of natural and social sciences, already constitutes a model for
integration of various research communities.
 In order to better integrate the various social/natural science LUCC perspectives at an early
stage, and to attract and include (younger, mainly social) scientists in the framing of activities
from the beginning, LUCC-IPO produced a list of eleven key persons for transition activities,
through database research and in collaboration with LUCC-SSC and IGBP/IHDP secretariats.
 A position paper (6 pp) was produced that was meant to help co-develop with other global
change communities a set of jointly shared science questions in the process of transition (a.
LUCC science in continuation until 2005: what have we achieved so far?, priority questions for
future research, b. Research in the transition process: fundamental principles, multiple scale
systems approach, major concepts, methodological issues, c. Programmatics).
 LUCC scientists, including some from the ‘young generation’, were proposed as contributors to
the planning of research in the land-atmosphere domain as part of IGBP II (project co-chair,
scoping members).
 To foster closer collaboration between LUCC and GCTE scientists, joint COST actions were
started leading to the following workshops: ‘Biodiversity and Spatial complexity’ (early 2002,
Giessen), ‘Land use scenarios and climate at regional scales’ (early 2002, Utrecht or Brussels),
‘Socio-economic factors and soil erosion’ (early 2002, Brussels), ‘Natural and Historical
archives: soil erosion and global change’ (Firenze, 23-26 Oct 2002).
 Again, to foster closer collaboration between LUCC and GCTE scientists, three joint projects
were implemented: integrated fire research (paper for Science or Ecosystems under preparation),
landscape fragmentation and biodiversity, and desertification.
 Again, to foster closer collaboration in the field of land use change and terrestrial ecology,
invitations for a LUCC synthesis workshop (April 2002) on linking causes/drivers of land
change with rates/patterns were extended beyond LUCC-SSC members to five GCTE-related
scientists.
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Meetings at which Project was Presented
(LUCC-IPO staff, chair)
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16th Science Committee (SC) Meeting of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP) -Chiang Mai, Thailand, 20-24 February 2001.
RICAMARE Network on land-use changes and water resources in the Mediterranean region,
Medenine, IRA Workshop, 20-21 April 2001.
‘Land use, land cover – From local, empirical case studies to models of global environmental
change’, Lecture, Faculty of Earth Sciences Lecture Series, University of Bonn, 16 May 2001.
‘Hotspots and critical regions: Defining and mapping vulnerability’, International Workshop on
Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change, Stockholm Environment Institute, 17-19 May
2001.
‘ What are the key dimensions of desertification at the international scale?’, Rapporteur,
Dahlem Workshop on ‘An integrated assessment of the ecological, meteorological and human
dimensions of global desertification’, Free University, Berlin, 10-15 June 2001.
‘Pathways of data integration: Lessons from the LUCC Project’, Short presentation & plenary
group moderation, ‘Towards the development of a Geoscope’, German National Committee on
Global Change Research & Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschat (DFG), Weilburg an der Lahn,
10-11 September 2001.
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‘Progress and priority tasks in land-use/cover change research: What have we learned so far?’,
Keynote Lecture, International Conference on Land Use/Cover Change Dynamics, Beijing
Normal University & National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, 24-26 August
2001.
‘Regional sampling and comparative case studies: The LUCC approach’, Short presentation &
break-out group moderation, ‘A Sustainability Geoscope: Observing, Understanding and
Managing the Sustainability Transition’, International conference & workshop, German
National Committee on Global Change Research & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research (PIK), Berlin, 25-26 October 2001.
‘Land-use changes : patterns and processes’, International conference on Carbon Sinks and
Biodiversity, Belgian Presidency of the European Union, Namur, 24-26 Octobre 2001.
‘Drivers and patterns of land-use change in tropical regions’, International workshop ‘Tropical
agriculture in transition : Opportunities for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions’, Center for
Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, 7-9 Novembre 2001.
‘Land-use changes as part of global change’, Joint Research Center information day in Belgium,
European Commission, Brussels, 6 December 2001.
Publications
(science publications only as released from press in 2001, mentioning LUCC project and/or
carrying LUCC logo; no newsletter contributions; in alphabetical order; LUCC-SSC
members in bold)
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Geist HJ, Lambin EF (2001): What drives tropical deforestation? A meta-analysis of proximate
and underlying causes of deforestation based on subnational case study evidence (= LUCC
Report Series; 4). – LUCC International Project Office, University of Louvain: Louvain-laNeuve, 116 pp.
Haberl H, Batterbury S, Moran E (2001) (Guest Editors, Special Issue): Using and shaping the
Land, Land Use Policy, Vol. 18 (1), 78 pp.
Klein Goldewijk K (2001): Estimating global land use change over the past 300 years: the
HYDE database. - Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Vol 15 (2), 417-434.
Lambin EF, Turner BL II, Geist HJ, Agbola S, Angelsen A, Bruce JW, Coomes O, Dirzo R,
Fischer G, Folke C, George PS, Homewood K, Imbernon J, Leemans R, Li X, Moran EF,
Mortimore M, Ramakrishnan PS, Richards JF, Skånes H, Steffen W, Stone GD, Svedin U,
Veldkamp T, Vogel C, Xu J. (2001): The causes of land-use and land-cover change - Moving
beyond the myths. - Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions. Vol. 11 (4),
261-269.
McConnell, W (2001): Land Use and Cover Change. – In: Smelser N, Bates P (eds): The
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. - Elsevier Science: Oxford.
McConnel WJ, Moran EF (eds) (2001): Meeting in the Middle – The Challenge of Meso-Level
Integration. An International Workshop, October 17-20, 2000, Ispra, Italy (= LUCC Report
Series; 5). – LUCC Focus 1 Office, Indiana University: Bloomington, 68 pp.
Moran E (2001): Progress in the Last Ten Years in the Study of Land Use/Cover Change and
the Outlook for the Next Decade. In: Diekman A, Dietz T, Jaeger CC, Rosa EA (eds): Human
Dimensions of Global Change. MIT Press: Cambridge.
Moran EF, Brondízio ES, McCracken SD (2001): Trajectories of Land Use - Soils, Succession,
and Crop Choice. - In: Wood C et al. (eds): Patterns and Processes of Land Use and Forest
Change in the Amazon. - University of Florida Press: Gainesville.
Turner BL II (2001): Toward Integrated Land-Change Science - Advances in 1.5 Decades of
Sustained International Research on Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. – In: Steffen W (ed):
Advances in Global Environmental Change Research. – Springer Verlag: Berlin, New York.
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Veldkamp A, Lambin E (2001) (Guest Editors, Special Issue): Predicting land-use change. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 85 (1-3), 292 pp.
Veldkamp A, Kok K, G.H.J. De Koning GHJ, Schoorl JM, Sonneveld MPW, Verburg PH
(2001): Multi-Scale system approaches in agronomic research at the landscape level. - Soil
And Tillage Research, Vol. 58, 129-140.
Verburg PH, de Koning GHJ, Kok K, Veldkamp A, Priess J (2001): The CLUE modelling
framework: an integrated model for the analysis of land use change. – In: Singh RB, Fox J,
Himiyama Y (eds): Land Use and Cover Change Science. - Pub. Inc.: Tokyo, 11- 25.
Veldkamp A, Kok K, de Koning GHJ, Verburg PH, Priess J, Bergsma AR (2001): The need
for multi-scale approaches in spatial specific land use change modelling. - Environmental
Modeling and Assessment, Vol. 6, 111-121.
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