Therefore, large scale land cover change is largely a rural phenomenon but many of its drivers can be traced to the consumption demands of the swelling urban population (Carr 2004).
The researchers found many large scale land grabs are taking place in regions facing hunger problems and in great need of food aid.
In 1996 the Howard government was elected on a policy to have no net loss of vegetation across Australia by 2000 - a pledge which would effectively require the end of large scale land clearing.
In a part of the world where corporate actors have been free to engage in large scale land grabs, illegal logging, and gross human rights abuses, enhancing the "enabling environment for business" will worry many communities at the coalface of resource extraction and agribusiness.
Satellite data offer unrivaled utility in monitoring and quantifying large scale land cover change over time.
During the next phase, characterised by large scale land consolidations (1965 85), the hydrological effects were less extreme.
"This practice competes with food production and has already led to large scale land-use change in countries like Germany leading to so-called 'maize deserts'.
Thermogravimetric analysis showed that the graphene "skin" could improve the thermal stability of the biochar, making the engineered biochar a better carbon sequester for large scale land applications.
There is increasing global concern regarding the impacts of large scale land disturbance by wildfire on a wide range of water and related ecological services.
While it is undisputed that the Cerrado provides a multitude of valuable ecosystem services, it is exposed to changes, e.g. through large scale land conversions or climatic changes.
Rapid urbanization due to large scale land use change, particularly in developing countries becomes a matter of serious concern since urbanization drives environmental change at multiple scales (Dewan et al. 2012).
