Essays about: "land fragmentation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 60 essays containing the words land fragmentation.

  1. 11. The Green Area Factor, Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity : An investigation of the preservation of urban biodiversity within the city of Stockholm

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Alice Wikström; [2020]
    Keywords : Biodiversity; Urban Areas; Ecosystem Services; Green Infrastructure; Biotope Area Factor; Urban Planning; Urban Biodiversity; Sustainable Environment; Development District; Green Area Factor; Stockholm; Sweden; Green Infrastructure; Sustainable Urban Planning; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : Urbanization is increasing around the world and causes distress on the urban green areas as more and more people moves into cities. This leads to expansion and densification of the city and green areas within and around the cities run the risk of being exploited and fragmented. READ MORE

  3. 12. Mapping Connectivity in the Swedish Agricultural Landscape

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

    Author : William Franzén; [2020]
    Keywords : ; GIS; Circuitscape; Structural Connectivity; Agriculture; Landscape; Perennialization; Land use;

    Abstract : The changes that Swedish agriculture has undergone during the 20th century has resulted in strongly increased productivity, but at the cost of more intensive environmental impacts. One of these is loss of biodiversity, which is driven by, e.g., usage of pesticides and loss and fragmentation of habitats. READ MORE

  4. 13. Tree diversity and edge effects in Nhamacoa miombo forest, Mozambique

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Anton Gårdman; [2020]
    Keywords : Edge effect; Miombo; Forest fragmentation; Deforestation; Mozambique; Habitat fragmentation; Tree diversity;

    Abstract : Mozambique is to fifty percent covered by forest, most of which belongs to the biodiverse miombo woodlands. The last decades, Mozambique has been suffering from rapid deforestation. The once continuous forest cover has turned into a mosaic of forest patches, farmland, settlements etc. The remaining forest patches are in many cases very isolated. READ MORE

  5. 14. Urban expansion, land use change and development of landscape diversity in Södra Sandby, Lund municipality 1940-2019

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Karl Piltz; [2020]
    Keywords : Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Diversity is an important part of the health of our planet’s ecosystems and processes. Anthropogenic factors like urbanization and agriculture have altered the landscape and in turn had a negative effect on diversity. READ MORE

  6. 15. Landscapes of change and resistance : a case study of the mineral industry’s establishment in south-east Skåne

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Tove Berg; [2020]
    Keywords : struggles over the landscape; the production of landscape; mining conflict; environmental politics; green transition; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper studies the struggles over the landscape that emerge in south-east Skåne due to the exploration permission which was given to ScandiVanadium in 2018. It also examines how this permission has a background in trends of a green transition in the mineral industry. READ MORE