Mapping and Forecasting Land Use

Paulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science. Eduardo Gomes is a researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning/Centre of Geographical Studies (University of Lisbon). He holds a PhD in Geography from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the University of Lisbon. His latest research has focused on the design of modelling and collaborative simulations applied to analyse future land use/cover changes. He is an editor and reviewer of many reputed international journals. Jorge Rocha holds a BSc in Geography and Regional Planning (1996), MSc in Geographic Information Systems (2003) and in Spatial Planning (2013), and a PhD in Geographic Information Science (2012). Jorge Rocha is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning and a researcher in the Centre of Geographical Studies, both at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he is co-coordinator of the Laboratory for Remote Sensing, Geographical Analysis and Modelling (GEOMODLAB). He holds a PhD in Geographic Information Science, and his fields of expertise include geosimulation and geocomputation involving artificial intelligence (deep learning, agent-based models) and cellular automata and programming applied to spatial problems.

• 1. IntroductionSection 1: Theory2. Land-use changes and Ecosystem Services3. Future land use/cover changes and participatory planning4. Earth observation, Land-Use and Land-Cover Mapping and Society5. Peri-urban land use6. Advancing land-use modelling requires new data to understand and represent human decision making7. Forecasting Land-use and land cover change: opening stakeholders' black box8. Landscape, water, people and climate9. Drivers of land use changes in Latin America. A review focusing on irrigated drylandsSection 2: Case Studies10. Land use dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau11. Cultivation spread into desert land over the last five decades (1972–2020), challenges and choices. A case study surrounding areas of Nile delta12. Land use management for coastal flooding prevention; a participatory simulation platform applied to Camargue (France)13. The role of non-farm activities in the transformation of peri-urban landscapes from agricultural to urban landscapes (Greater Copenhagen, Denmark)14. Setting up a Land Use Cover Change Model for Greater Sydney. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead15. Land-use change in the touristic city (Lisbon, Portugal)16. Land use change effects in one UNESCO cultural landscape and future projection (Viñales, Cuba)17. Projections of future land use changes and associated ecosystem services loss in Kolkata megacity region