Land use changes matter because different types of surface strongly affect the atmospheric distribution of the Sun's energy.
The objective is to use space technologies to monitor heritage sites and allow local authorities to identify potential threats, such as land use changes or natural disasters, giving them time to implement mitigation strategies.
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The United Nations recently raised concerns regarding the health and climatic impacts of particles emitted by vegetation fires in regions subject to land use changes and human driven deforestation such as South-East Asia, where they are responsible for 10, 800 premature deaths per year.
GHGs have risen from around 280ppm two centuries ago to around 370ppm today, thanks chiefly to mankind's use of fossil fuels and, to a lesser degree, to deforestation and other land-use changes.
Changing climate, in addition to land-use changes, are making water supplies increasingly erratic, as climate scientists have predicted.
Clearly visible in the new time series are major land-use changes during the 20th Century that gave enormous nitrate kicks to the hydrology of the Thames basin.
The realisation that the effects of land-use changes in the Thames catchment take more than 30 years to show themselves fully has profound implications for policies to monitor and manage the river's water quality.
This will acquire pictures of land use and vegetation changes from an altitude of 820km, maintaining an important data series started by the French Spot satellites in the late 1990s.
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All the questions re UHI, changes in land use local topographic effects etc are simply sidestepped.
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Global warming, coupled with changes in land use, such as deforestation, or extensive terracing, increases the risks.
Jane Gilmour from the Guernsey Biological Records Centre says changes in land use and climate are pushing Guernsey bumblebees close to extinction.
Impacts from changes in land use, water diversions, and infrastructure development continue to drive the degradation and loss of wetlands.
But almost half of the region's emissions come from changes in land use, as forests and grasslands are turned into farms.
Yet studies run into the unreliability of modelling future climatic effects and sometimes ignore changes in land use and health care.
Plant diversity is being destroyed at a greater rate than ever before and much of this is due to habitat loss through changes in land use.
Accordingly, it is suggested that biofuels that depend far less on changes in land use may be the cleanest in terms of carbon emissions, including those from salicornia and algae.
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And it is this: fuller rivers cannot be explained by more rainfall or haze or changes in land use, but they can be explained by higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
These are supply side reforms in fiscal (taxation, especially corporate taxation, and government spending) policies and pro-competition and pro-growth changes in restrictive regulations (especially with respect to labor, agriculture, and land use).
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