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LUCC Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Time span: October 1996 - October 2005
Aim: The project aims at improving the understanding of the land use and land cover change dynamics and their relationships with the global environmental change.
Description: The primary objectives of the LUCC international project are: (1) to obtain a better understanding of global land-use and land-cover driving forces; (2) to investigate and document temporal and geographical dynamics of land-use and land-cover; (3) to define the links between sustainability and various land uses; and (4) to understand the inter-relationship between LUCC, biogeochemistry and climate. The project has three focus areas: Land-use dynamics - comparative case study analysis; Land-cover dynamics - empirical observations and diagnostic models; and regional and global integrated models. Also, two integrating activities are included in the project: data and classification and scalar dynamics.
Countries: worldwide;
Website: http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/LUCC/lucc.html%20 (link expired)


 
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Acknowledgement

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The DESIRE project was 
co-funded by the 
European Commission, 
Global Change and 
Ecosystem.
 
DESIRE brought together the expertise of
26 international research institutes
and non-governmental organisations. 
This website does not necessarily 
represent the opinion of the 
European Commission. The European 
Commission is not responsible for 
any use that might be made of the 
information contained herein.

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