Global map provides new insights into land use
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
In order to assess the global impacts of land use on the environment and help provide appropriate countermeasures, a group of researchers has created a new world map of land use systems. Based on various indicators of land-use intensity, climate, environmental and socio-economic conditions, they identified twelve global patterns called land system archetypes.