Protected areas have long been the mainstay of efforts to conserve nature and biodiversity across the world. Global agreements like the Convention of Biological Diversity and international organisations like the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) carve out an important role for protected areas, and […]
More than 1.8 billion individual trees can be found in the West African Sahara, Sahel and sub-humid zone, according to a report in Nature this week. A combination of high-resolution satellite imaging and deep learning has revealed a relatively high density of tree coverage for this arid area. Accurate mapping […]
Better late, than never. In August 2020, I was so lucky to get a centerpiece of my dissertation (entitled Global Dryland Vegetation: Extent, functioning and drivers of change), which I defended in May the same year, published in Nature Sustainability. The article is concerned with questions about where and why […]
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, a visiting PhD student at IGN and her co-supervisor Ass. Prof. Alexander Prishchepov have published a new article about three-dimensional urban form monitoring using a semantic segmentation framework and Landsat time series analysis. See the full publication in Remote Sensing of Environment: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bnBl7qzSr7Gv Urban land cover grows […]
Most of the ESD research group participated in the annual retreat at Faxeladeplads – picture from the late afternoon break at the seaside
Ma. Eliza Villarino is a Ph.D. student with IGN who explores the role of institutions in environmental upgrading in agricultural value chains. Together with IGN alumnus and former Peruvian climate change negotiator Augusto Castro-Nuñez, she co-wrote a Medium op-ed titled “Post-COVID-19, we need a food systems approach to achieve zero-deforestation […]
Message from the Guest Editors: Dear Colleagues, Sustainable urbanization and urban growth have become issues of high importance on the international research and policy agendas (e.g., SDG 11). This Special Issue aims to document and explore how urbanization in rural regions (‘rural urbanization’) of Africa and Asia progress, and to […]
Christin Abel and Stephanie Horion will be presenting their work at the EGU 2020. Join them on the live chats: On Tue, 05 May, 08:30–10:15 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/displays/35227 Christin Abel et al. ‘How global dryland vegetation dynamics relate to changing climatic conditions and anthropogenic dynamics‘. (Session BG3.20) On Wed, 06 May, 14:00–18:00 […]