B.L. Turner’s scientific contributions

... "The Earth as Transformed by Human Action," synopsized in the Annals (B. L. Turner, Kates, and Meyers 1994), was a landmark global-scale study. More recent Annals writings have expanded emphasis on human-environment interactions in relation to biodiversity, with special attention to analysis of prospects for environmental conservation with sustainable use (Zimmerer 1999;Cowell and Dyer 2002;Naughton-Treves 2002;Jiang 2004;Voeks 2004;Byers 2005;Campbell 2007;Goldman 2009). ...

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Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations

... LUCC directly reflects the interaction between human activities and the natural environment [2] and impacts regional economic and ecological environmental quality [3]. The "International Geosphere and Biosphere Program" (IGBP) and the "International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change" (IHDP) listed LUCC as a core content of global change research in 1993 [4,5]. The study of the driving forces of land use change involves analyzing the factors that lead to changes in land use patterns and purposes, as well as the underling mechanisms driving these changes [6]. ...

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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Land Use Changes in the Yellow River Basin from 1990 to 2021 and Future Predictions

... Arazi kullanım biçimleri zaman ve mekân ölçeğinde değişime uğrayabilir. Bir arazi örtüsü sınıfından diğerine geçişle kullanım biçiminin farklılaşması, arazi kullanım dönüşümü olarak değerlendirilirken, arazi üzerinde kullanım biçimi değişmeksizin koşulların sürekli ya da geçici olarak değişime uğraması arazi kullanım değişikliği şeklinde tanımlanmaktadır (Bayar, 2019;Turner ve Meyer, 1994). Bu açıdan ele alındığında arazi kullanımı dinamik bir süreçtir. ...

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Göksu Çayı Havzası’nda (Sakarya Nehri Havzası) Arazi Kabiliyet Sınıflarına Göre Arazi Kullanımının (CORINE Sistemiyle) İncelenmesi

... The declining mountainous tropical forest areas have fragile ecosystems because of their steep slopes, which can lead to serious environmental problems, e.g., soil erosion, sediment accumulation, landslides, floods, the drying of springs, habitat destruction, the loss of biodiversity, and can have a severe impact on livelihood (Briassoulis 2000;Chakravarty et al. 2011;Price et al. 2011;Haliuc et al. 2018;Kanade and John 2018). Efforts to secure mountain forest functions and develop appropriate actions and policies to counteract the negative impact of deforestation are often constrained by data uncertainty on underlying factors and drivers of deforestation (Turner et al. 1995). In the case of the MTFC, although several previous descriptive studies have proposed the causes of deforestation, i.e., wood collection, boundary and land disputes, livestock grazing, and agricultural expansion (Lentz et al. 1998;Fisher et al. 2003;Kurniadi et al. 2017), only a few studies can spatially and statistically explain the factors contributing to deforestation. ...

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Assessment of causes and future deforestation in the mountainous tropical forest of Timor Island, Indonesia

... Analysis of the factors driving observed patterns has always been a subject of interest for scholars both within and outside of China. In the early stages of studies of the factors underlying changes in land use, geographical factors were thought to be the primary factors leading to changes in land use patterns 23,24 . The set of factors examined in the current study are more diverse and include land transfer policies 25 , population 26 , GDP per capita output 27 , number of development zones 28 , general tertiary institutions 29 , and many other factors. ...

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An analysis of spatial changes in the manufacturing industry in china’s three major urban clusters from 2015 to 2019 using POI data