Threats of climate change and land use patterns enhance the susceptibility of future floods in India

2022 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 114317
Author(s):  
Subodh Chandra Pal ◽  
Indrajit Chowdhuri ◽  
Biswajit Das ◽  
Rabin Chakrabortty ◽  
Paramita Roy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns

scholarly journals Epidemiology of zoonotic tick-borne diseases in Latin America: Are we just seeing the tip of the iceberg?

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales ◽  
D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana ◽  
Samuel E. Idarraga-Bedoya ◽  
Juan J. Garcia-Bustos ◽  
Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The World

Ticks are responsible for transmission of multiple bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases. Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) occur particularly in tropical and also subtropical areas. The frequency of these TBDs has been increasing and extending to new territories in a significant way, partly since ticks’ populations are highly favored by prevailing factors such as change in land use patterns, and climate change. Therefore, in order to obtain accurate estimates of mortality, premature mortality, and disability associated about TBDs, more molecular and epidemiological studies in different regions of the world, including Latin America, are required. In the case of this region, there is still a limited number of published studies. In addition, there is recently the emergence and discovering of pathogens not reported previously in this region but present in other areas of the world. In this article we discuss some studies and implications about TBDs in Latin America, most of them, zoonotic and with evolving taxonomical issues.

scholarly journals Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 125003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Knitter ◽  
Gerrit Günther ◽  
Wolfgang Berengar Hamer ◽  
Torben Keßler ◽  
Joana Seguin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Southern Greece

scholarly journals Epidemiology of zoonotic tick-borne diseases in Latin America: Are we just seeing the tip of the iceberg?

F1000Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales ◽  
D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana ◽  
Samuel E. Idarraga-Bedoya ◽  
Juan J. Garcia-Bustos ◽  
Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The World

Ticks are responsible for transmission of multiple bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases. Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) occur particularly in tropical and also subtropical areas. The frequency of these TBDs has been increasing and extending to new territories in a significant way, partly since ticks’ populations are highly favored by prevailing factors such as change in land use patterns, and climate change. Therefore, in order to obtain accurate estimates of mortality, premature mortality, and disability associated about TBDs, more molecular and epidemiological studies in different regions of the world, including Latin America, are required. In the case of this region, there is still a limited number of published studies. In addition, there is recently the emergence and discovering of pathogens not reported previously in this region but present in other areas of the world. In this article we discuss some studies and implications about TBDs in Latin America, most of them, zoonotic and with evolving taxonomical issues.

Conducting “Siteless Survey”: Results from Coastal New England

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan E. Kerber
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Statistical Validity ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Survey Strategy

Selecting an effective archaeological survey takes careful consideration given the interaction of several variables, such as the survey's goals, nature of the data base, and budget constraints. This article provides justification for a “siteless survey” using evidence from a project on Potowomut Neck in Rhode Island whose objective was not to locate sites but to examine the distribution and density of prehistoric remains to test an hypothesis related to land use patterns. The survey strategy, random walk, was chosen because it possessed the advantages of probabilistic testing, as well as the ease of locating sample units. The results were within the limits of statistical validity and were found unable to reject the hypothesis. “Siteless survey” may be successfully applied in similar contexts where the distribution and density of materials, as opposed to ambiguously defined sites, are sought as evidence of land use patterns, in particular, and human adaptation, in general.

scholarly journals Modeling Community-Scale Natural Resource Use in a Transboundary Southern African Landscape: Integrating Remote Sensing and Participatory Mapping

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Kyle D. Woodward ◽  
Narcisa G. Pricope ◽  
Forrest R. Stevens ◽  
Andrea E. Gaughan ◽  
Nicholas E. Kolarik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Systems Science ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Human Habitation

Remote sensing analyses focused on non-timber forest product (NTFP) collection and grazing are current research priorities of land systems science. However, mapping these particular land use patterns in rural heterogeneous landscapes is challenging because their potential signatures on the landscape cannot be positively identified without fine-scale land use data for validation. Using field-mapped resource areas and household survey data from participatory mapping research, we combined various Landsat-derived indices with ancillary data associated with human habitation to model the intensity of grazing and NTFP collection activities at 100-m spatial resolution. The study area is situated centrally within a transboundary southern African landscape that encompasses community-based organization (CBO) areas across three countries. We conducted four iterations of pixel-based random forest models, modifying the variable set to determine which of the covariates are most informative, using the best fit predictions to summarize and compare resource use intensity by resource type and across communities. Pixels within georeferenced, field-mapped resource areas were used as training data. All models had overall accuracies above 60% but those using proxies for human habitation were more robust, with overall accuracies above 90%. The contribution of Landsat data as utilized in our modeling framework was negligible, and further research must be conducted to extract greater value from Landsat or other optical remote sensing platforms to map these land use patterns at moderate resolution. We conclude that similar population proxy covariates should be included in future studies attempting to characterize communal resource use when traditional spectral signatures do not adequately capture resource use intensity alone. This study provides insights into modeling resource use activity when leveraging both remotely sensed data and proxies for human habitation in heterogeneous, spectrally mixed rural land areas.

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