Bi L Turner's scientific contributions

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Publication (1)

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the myths
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  • Jan 2001
Common understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article tracks some of the major myths on driving forces of land-cover change and proposes alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence. Cases re...
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... Our results also concur with Sagastume et al. (2018) who reported that over half of agricultural land in Cuba is currently unused and with Stuhlmacher et al. (2020) who found that between the years 1985 and 2010,~18% of Cuban croplands changed to barren/grass/shrublands, built-up lands, and forest. Although the trend we report for Cuba is opposite to the general global pattern, it is an example of how land use change is a complex phenomenon resulting from multiple causes, and difficult to predict (Lambin et al., 2001). ...
Reference: Land-cover change in Cuba and implications for the area of distribution of a specialist’s host-plant
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