Land Use Cover Change, or LUCC, is a diverse way of looking at our changing environment. This whole process has stuck out to me as a real interesting way of going about “analyzing” environmental studies. Starting with Land Use Science, you can inspect multiple different levels of change to analyse possible impacts humans may have. This can be done at large scale and small scale levels, such as the experiments done in class in the surrounding areas of the Lewis and Clark Community. Through observations done by the scientific community, most of which put forth for everyone to use, we can make general assumptions about how environments may adapt and change based on our usage of them. Verburg writes, “One of the main achievements of the early LUCC work was the synthesis of case studies to identify common driving factors of change and causation patterns,” (Verburg, 30).
One of the industries Verburg looks at using this analysis is agriculture. “Changes in land systems can also result in increased carbon sequestration, due to e.g. the land-sparing effects of intensification, if not overcompensated by rebound effects (Lambin and Meyfroidt, 2011) or due to management changes in forests that do not result in changes in land cover, such as forest grazing or litter raking,” (Verburg, 34). It is inspection of land use like this that scientists may alter land use to better use the land. With greater knowledge of outcomes we can better anticipate outcomes of efforts such as land sparing. This can help yield higher quantity of crops while not overcompensating minerals that may hurt crop yields simultaneously. Verburg, Peter H., Neville Crossman, Erle C. Ellis, Andreas Heinimann, Patrick Hostert, Ole Mertz, Harini Nagendra, et al. “Land System Science and Sustainable Development of the Earth System: A Global Land Project Perspective.” Anthropocene12 (December 1, 2015): 29–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2015.09.004.
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