Despite impressive economic growth, land grabs, rampant deforestation, impunity, stagnating wages and widespread corruption have long dogged Cambodia.
However, it was to be frustrated by population growth, land speculation, and the poor areas that sprang up outside the planned zones.
Over the recent years, metropolitan regions dealt with the growing problems of urban growth, land use/land cover changes, landscape fragmentation, deforestation and loss of natural vegetation.
A key component of this is the role of climate and the feedback between rainfall, crop growth, land clearance and their coupling to the hydrological cycle.
In the last decades, the increasing vulnerability of floodplains is linked to societal changes such as population density growth, land use changes, water use patterns, among other factors.
The application examined here explores the effects on land-use and land-cover projections of scenarios that rely on varying assumptions pertaining to population growth, land-use trends, role of agrarian technology, and effects of resource institutions.
Along the same lines, the state also ought to tie transportation funding to smart-growth land-use policies.
A model of global agricultural trade and land use, called SIMPLE, is utilized to link adaptation investments, yield growth rates, land conversion rates, and land use emissions.
Such phenomenal growth in land price has led to land speculation, particularly among real estate apartment and land developers and individual plot buyers.
