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Volume 6, issue 4, 2017

In the Land of the Dammed: Assessing Governance in Resettlement of Ghana’s Bui Dam Project pp. 1-24

Kwabena Asiama, Monica Lengoiboni and Paul Van der Molen

Identifying Hot Spots of Critical Forage Supply in Dryland Nomadic Pastoralist Areas: A Case Study for the Afar Region, Ethiopia pp. 1-31

B. G. J. S. Sonneveld, Cornelia van Wesenbeeck, M. A. Keyzer, F. Beyene, K. Georgis, F. Urbano, M. Meroni, O. Leo, M. K. Yimer and M. Abdullatif

Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes pp. 1-16

Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis and Paraskevi Manolaki

What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language pp. 1-16

Flurina M. Wartmann and Ross S. Purves

Assessing the Sustainability of EU Timber Consumption Trends: Comparing Consumption Scenarios with a Safe Operating Space Scenario for Global and EU Timber Supply pp. 1-16

Meghan O’Brien and Stefan Bringezu

Impact of the Household Registration System on Farmers’ Rural Housing Land Use Decisions in China pp. 1-12

Xinhua Zhu

Agricultural Land Use Change after NAFTA in Central West Mexico pp. 1-14

Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Marta Astier and Sara Barrasa

Mapping Land Cover and Estimating the Grassland Structure in a Priority Area of the Chihuahuan Desert pp. 1-14

Alberto Rodríguez-Maturino, José Hugo Martínez-Guerrero, Isaías Chairez-Hernández, Martín Emilio Pereda-Solis, Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Marusia Renteria-Villalobos and Alfredo Pinedo-Alvarez

Effect of Climate and Agricultural Land Use Changes on UK Feed Barley Production and Food Security to the 2050s pp. 1-14

David O. Yawson, Barry J. Mulholland, Tom Ball, Michael O. Adu, Sushil Mohan and Philip J. White

Landscape Risk Assessment Model and Decision Support System for the Protection of the Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean Area pp. 1-27

Maria Gabriella Trovato, Dana Ali, Jessica Nicolas, Ammar El Halabi and Sarah Meouche

Grassroots Innovation Using Drones for Indigenous Mapping and Monitoring pp. 1-25

Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez, Brian M. Napoletano and Anthony Cummings

A Conceptual Model for Land System Dynamics as a Coupled Human–Environment System pp. 1-9

Richard Aspinall and Michele Staiano

Determining the Frequency of Dry Lake Bed Formation in Semi-Arid Mongolia From Satellite Data pp. 1-9

Yuta Demura, Buho Hoshino, Kenji Baba, Christopher McCarthy, Yuki Sofue, Kenji Kai, Tsedendamba Purevsuren, Katsuro Hagiwara and Jun Noda

Collaborative Research on the Ecology and Management of the ‘Wulo’ Monsoon Rainforest in Wunambal Gaambera Country, North Kimberley, Australia pp. 1-20

Tom Vigilante, Stefania Ondei, Catherine Goonack, Desmond Williams, Paul Young and David M. J. S. Bowman

Horse Welfare and Natural Values on Semi-Natural and Extensive Pastures in Finland: Synergies and Trade-Offs pp. 1-20

Markku Saastamoinen, Iryna Herzon, Susanna Särkijärvi, Catherine Schreurs and Marianna Myllymäki

Bequest of the Norseman—The Potential for Agricultural Intensification and Expansion in Southern Greenland under Climate Change pp. 1-20

Chatrina Caviezel, Matthias Hunziker and Nikolaus J. Kuhn

A Stakeholders’ Analysis of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes: Contextualities, Commonalities and Concerns pp. 1-20

Theano S. Terkenli and Dimitris Kavroudakis

Constraining the Deforestation History of Europe: Evaluation of Historical Land Use Scenarios with Pollen-Based Land Cover Reconstructions pp. 1-20

Jed O. Kaplan, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Marie-José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Anna-Kari Trondman, Ralph Fyfe, Laurent Marquer, Florence Mazier and Anne Birgitte Nielsen

Monitoring Changes in Croplands Due to Water Stress in the Krishna River Basin Using Temporal Satellite Imagery pp. 1-18

Venkata Ramana Murthy Reddi, Murali Krishna Gumma, Kesava Rao Pyla, Amminedu Eadara and Jai Sankar Gummapu

Water Rights on Community Lands: LandMark’s Findings from 100 Countries pp. 1-18

Liz Alden Wily, Fabrice Dubertret, Peter Veit, Katie Reytar and Nicholas K. Tagliarino

Simulating Stakeholder-Based Land-Use Change Scenarios and Their Implication on Above-Ground Carbon and Environmental Management in Northern Thailand pp. 1-18

Melvin Lippe, Thomas Hilger, Sureeporn Sudchalee, Naruthep Wechpibal, Attachai Jintrawet and Georg Cadisch

Land Cover Change in Northern Botswana: The Influence of Climate, Fire, and Elephants on Semi-Arid Savanna Woodlands pp. 1-23

John Tyler Fox, Mark E. Vandewalle and Kathleen A. Alexander

Dust Storms from Degraded Drylands of Asia: Dynamics and Health Impacts pp. 1-5

Shinji Otani, Yasunori Kurosaki, Youichi Kurozawa and Masato Shinoda

Global Hotspots of Conflict Risk between Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation pp. 1-15

Amy Molotoks, Matthias Kuhnert, Terence P. Dawson and Pete Smith

Impact of Soil Depth and Topography on the Effectiveness of Conservation Practices on Discharge and Soil Loss in the Ethiopian Highlands pp. 1-17

Adugnaw T. Akale, Dessalegn C. Dagnew, Mulugeta A. Belete, Seifu A. Tilahun, Wolde Mekuria and Tammo S. Steenhuis

Pastoralism and Land Tenure Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Policies and Priorities in Ngamiland, Botswana pp. 1-17

Lenyeletse V. Basupi, Claire H. Quinn and Andrew J. Dougill

Volume 6, issue 3, 2017

Erratum: Viet Nguyen, L., Tateishi, R., Kondoh, A., Sharma, R.C., Thanh Nguyen, H., Trong To, T. and Ho Tong Minh, D. (2016). Mapping Tropical Forest Biomass by Combining ALOS-2, Landsat 8, and Field Plots Data. Land, 5(4), 31 pp. 1-2

Luong Viet Nguyen, Ryutaro Tateishi, Akihiko Kondoh, Ram C. Sharma, Hoan Thanh Nguyen, Tu Trong To and Dinh Ho Tong Minh

High-Resolution Vegetation Mapping in Japan by Combining Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Based Multi-Temporal Datasets through Machine Learning and Cross-Validation Approach pp. 1-11

Ram C. Sharma, Keitarou Hara and Ryutaro Tateishi

Scenarios of Vegetable Demand vs. Production in Brazil: The Links between Nutritional Security and Small Farming pp. 1-19

Camille L. Nolasco, Luciana S. Soler, Marcos W. D. Freitas, Myanna Lahsen and Jean P. H. B. Ometto

The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country pp. 1-19

Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Mateus Batistella, Yue Dou, Emilio Moran, Sara McMillan Torres and Jianguo Liu

Fire Data as Proxy for Anthropogenic Landscape Change in the Yucatán pp. 1-19

Marco Millones, John Rogan, B.L. Turner, Benoit Parmentier, Robert Clary Harris and Daniel A. Griffith

The Dynamics of Urban Land Rent in Italian Regional Capital Cities pp. 1-18

Benedetto Manganelli and Beniamino Murgante

Integrating Modelling Approaches for Understanding Telecoupling: Global Food Trade and Local Land Use pp. 1-18

James D. A. Millington, Hang Xiong, Steve Peterson and Jeremy Woods

Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change in the Páramo of South‐Central Ecuador, 1979–2014 pp. 1-20

Cristina Ross, Stephen Fildes and Andrew Millington

The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human Responses in a Land Degradation-Affected Region: The Messara Valley (Crete, Greece) pp. 1-23

Vassilis Detsis, Helen Briassoulis and Constantinos Kosmas

Investigating Semi-Automated Cadastral Boundaries Extraction from Airborne Laser Scanned Data pp. 1-23

Xianghuan Luo, Rohan Mark Bennett, Mila Koeva and Christiaan Lemmen

The Influence of Geology on Landscape Typology in Jordan: Theoretical Understanding and Planning Implications pp. 1-13

Taleb Odeh, Natalia Boulad, Omar Abed, Anas Abu Yahya, Nour Khries and Nizar Abu-Jaber

Understanding Pollinator Habitat Conservation under Current Policy Using Economic Experiments pp. 1-13

Chian Jones Ritten, Christopher Bastian, Jason Shogren, Thadchaigeni Panchalingam, Mariah Tanner Ehmke and Gregory Parkhurst

Using Historical Maps within a GIS to Analyze Two Centuries of Rural Landscape Changes in Southern Italy pp. 1-15

Dina Statuto, Giuseppe Cillis and Pietro Picuno

The Integration of Ecosystem Services in Planning: An Evaluation of the Nutrient Retention Model Using InVEST Software pp. 1-21

Stefano Salata, Gabriele Garnero, Carlo Alberto Barbieri and Carolina Giaimo

Comparing Quantity, Allocation and Configuration Accuracy of Multiple Land Change Models pp. 1-21

Brian Pickard, Joshua Gray and Ross Meentemeyer

Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities pp. 1-24

Christoph D. D. Rupprecht

Wolf and Bear Depredation on Livestock in Northern Sweden 1827–2014: Combining History, Ecology and Interviews pp. 1-24

Weronika Axelsson Linkowski, Marie Kvarnström, Anna Westin, Jon Moen and Lars Östlund

Vegetation in Drylands: Effects on Wind Flow and Aeolian Sediment Transport pp. 1-24

Jerome R. Mayaud and Nicholas P. Webb

Central Asian ‘Characteristics’ on China’s New Silk Road: The Role of Landscape and the Politics of Infrastructure pp. 1-16

Troy Sternberg, Ariell Ahearn and Fiona McConnell

Efficiency of Conservation Agriculture Production Systems for Smallholders in Rain-Fed Uplands of India: A Transformative Approach to Food Security pp. 1-12

Catherine Chan, Brent Sipes, Abouzeid Ayman, Xu Zhang, Patricia LaPorte, Fellipe Fernandes, Aliza Pradhan, Jacqueline Chan-Dentoni and Pravat Roul

Soy Expansion and Socioeconomic Development in Municipalities of Brazil pp. 1-14

Luiz Antonio Martinelli, Mateus Batistella, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva and Emilio Moran

Volume 6, issue 2, 2017

Validation and Inter-Comparison of Spaceborne Derived Global and Continental Land Cover Products for the Mediterranean Region: The Case of Thessaly pp. 1-15

Ioannis Manakos, Christina Karakizi, Ioannis Gkinis and Konstantinos Karantzalos

The Status of National Legal Frameworks for Valuing Compensation for Expropriated Land: An Analysis of Whether National Laws in 50 Countries/Regions across Asia, Africa, and Latin America Comply with International Standards on Compensation Valuation pp. 1-29

Nicholas K. Tagliarino

Biodiversity in Locally Managed Lands pp. 1-5

Jeffrey Sayer and Chris Margules

A Review on Remote Sensing of Urban Heat and Cool Islands pp. 1-10

Azad Rasul, Heiko Balzter, Claire Smith, John Remedios, Bashir Adamu, José A. Sobrino, Manat Srivanit and Qihao Weng

Analysis of Urban Green Spaces Based on Sentinel-2A: Case Studies from Slovakia pp. 1-17

Monika Kopecká, Daniel Szatmári and Konštantín Rosina

Application of Anthromes to Frame Scenario Planning for Landscape-Scale Conservation Decision Making pp. 1-17

Dainee M. Gibson and John E. Quinn

Detection of Land Subsidence in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Using DInSAR Technique pp. 1-17

Richa Bhattarai, Haireti Alifu, Aikebaier Maitiniyazi and Akihiko Kondoh

Modeling Future Urban Sprawl and Landscape Change in the Laguna de Bay Area, Philippines pp. 1-21

Kotaro Iizuka, Brian A. Johnson, Akio Onishi, Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog, Isao Endo and Milben Bragais

Rangelands: Where Anthromes Meet Their Limits pp. 1-11

Nathan F. Sayre, Diana K. Davis, Brandon Bestelmeyer and Jeb C. Williamson

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi pp. 1-23

Somajita Paul and Harini Nagendra

Historical Analysis of Riparian Vegetation Change in Response to Shifting Management Objectives on the Middle Rio Grande pp. 1-23

Roy E. Petrakis, Willem J.D. Van Leeuwen, Miguel L. Villarreal, Paul Tashjian, Regina Dello Russo and Christopher A. Scott

Monitoring Urban Growth and the Nepal Earthquake 2015 for Sustainability of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal pp. 1-23

Bhagawat Rimal, Lifu Zhang, Dongjie Fu, Ripu Kunwar and Yongguang Zhai

Governance of Land Use Planning to Reduce Fire Risk to Homes Mediterranean France and California pp. 1-18

Susan D. Kocher and Butsic Van

Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide pp. 1-18

Suranga Wadduwage, Andrew Millington, Neville D. Crossman and Harpinder Sandhu

Landscape Archaeology and Sacred Space in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Glimpse from Cyprus pp. 1-18

Giorgos Papantoniou and Athanasios K. Vionis

Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Road Networks and Urban Expansion pp. 1-19

Guoliang Zhao, Xinqi Zheng, Zhiyuan Yuan and Lulu Zhang

Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory pp. 1-20

Michael R. Coughlan, Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman and Ashley E. Block

Forest Cover Changes in Lao Tropical Forests: Physical and Socio-Economic Factors are the Most Important Drivers pp. 1-14

Chittana Phompila, Megan Lewis, Bertram Ostendorf and Kenneth Clarke

From Producers to Consumers: The Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Development in Iraqi Kurdistan pp. 1-14

Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim Abdi and Mine Islar

Do Community-Managed Forests Work? A Biodiversity Perspective pp. 1-7

John Terborgh and Carlos A. Peres

Numerical Investigation of Aggregated Fuel Spatial Pattern Impacts on Fire Behavior pp. 1-22

Russell A. Parsons, Rodman R. Linn, Francois Pimont, Chad Hoffman, Jeremy Sauer, Judith Winterkamp, Carolyn H. Sieg and W. Matt Jolly

Quantifying the National Significance of Local Areas for Regional Conservation Planning: North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures pp. 1-16

R. Travis Belote and G. Hugh Irwin

Modeling Future Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on the Land Surface Temperatures in the Saudi Arabian Eastern Coastal City of Dammam pp. 1-16

Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, Adel S. Aldosary and Md. Golam Mortoja

Volume 6, issue 1, 2017

Fire and the Distribution and Uncertainty of Carbon Sequestered as Aboveground Tree Biomass in Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks pp. 1-24

James A. Lutz, John R. Matchett, Leland W. Tarnay, Douglas F. Smith, Kendall M. L. Becker, Tucker J. Furniss and Matthew L. Brooks

Characterizing Spatial Neighborhoods of Refugia Following Large Fires in Northern New Mexico USA pp. 1-24

Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan D. Coop and Carol Miller

Hydrological Response to ~30 years of Agricultural Surface Water Management pp. 1-24

Giulia Sofia and Paolo Tarolli

The Politics of Land Use in the Korup National Park pp. 1-22

Siewe Siewe, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec and Beth Caniglia

Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia pp. 1-14

James D. Langston, Rebecca A. Riggs, Yazid Sururi, Terry Sunderland and Muhammad Munawir

Urban Growth Dynamics in Perth, Western Australia: Using Applied Remote Sensing for Sustainable Future Planning pp. 1-14

Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff

Anthropogenic Landscapes, Human Action and the Process of Co-Construction with other Species: Making Anthromes in the Anthropocene pp. 1-12

Agustín Fuentes and Marcus Baynes-Rock

Conservation Benefits of Tropical Multifunctional Land-Uses in and Around a Forest Protected Area of Bangladesh pp. 1-12

Sharif A. Mukul and Narayan Saha

Identifying Employment Subcenters: The Method of Exponentially Declining Cutoffs pp. 1-33

Jifei Ban, Richard Arnott and Jacob L. Macdonald

Will Biodiversity Be Conserved in Locally-Managed Forests? pp. 1-9

Jeffrey Sayer, Chris Margules and Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono

Resistance and Contingent Contestations to Large-Scale Land Concessions in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia pp. 1-19

Ian G. Baird

Understanding Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics from 1976 to 2014 in Yellow River Delta pp. 1-20

Baolei Zhang, Qiaoyun Zhang, Chaoyang Feng, Qingyu Feng and Shumin Zhang

Toward a Global Classification of Coastal Anthromes pp. 1-27

Eli D. Lazarus

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Land in 2016 pp. 1-2

Land Editorial Office

Unexpected Interactions between Agricultural and Forest Sectors through International Trade: Wood Pallets and Agricultural Exports in Costa Rica pp. 1-21

Isaline Jadin, Patrick Meyfroidt, Juan Carlos Zamora Pereira and Eric F. Lambin

Late Neolithic Agriculture in Temperate Europe—A Long-Term Experimental Approach pp. 1-17

Manfred Rösch, Harald Biester, Arno Bogenrieder, Eileen Eckmeier, Otto Ehrmann, Renate Gerlach, Mathias Hall, Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder, Ludger Herrmann, Birgit Kury, Jutta Lechterbeck, Wolfram Schier and Erhard Schulz

Multi-Criteria Assessment of Land Cover Dynamic Changes in Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP), Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Using Remote Sensing and GIS pp. 1-17

Rahel Hamad, Heiko Balzter and Kamal Kolo

Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia? pp. 1-17

Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono

Analysis of Vegetation Phytosociological Characteristics and Soil Physico-Chemical Conditions in Harishin Rangelands of Eastern Ethiopia pp. 1-17

Haftay Hailu

Characterizing Islandscapes: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Exemplified in the Mediterranean pp. 1-13

Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis, Maria Zomeni and A. M. Mannion

Habitat Loss on Rondon’s Marmoset Potential Distribution pp. 1-15

Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Charlotte H. Chang, Toby A. Gardner, Mariluce Rezende Messias, William J. Sutherland and Fernanda A. C. Delben