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Welcome to the IAMO Land Systems Group

The overall goal of the Land Systems Group is to advance the understanding of terrestrial social-ecological systems where humans interact with the environment through land use. We analyze the multiple repercussions of the changes in land use on human welfare, food production, carbon dynamics, and biodiversity, as well as the effects of socioecological changes on land use. We approach these issues through quantitative and qualitative assessments alike and combine approaches from social and natural sciences at different spatial scales.

Specifically, we work with spatially explicit methods that include econometric modeling, quantitative geography, crop growth modeling, remote sensing, data mining, and simulation modeling. The geographic focus of the research group is the countries of the European Union, West Balkan, former Soviet Union, and China.

 

News

28 January 2025

A team of IAMO researchers,  Atabek Umirbekov and Chanxing Dong, have achieved recognition in a data science competition on Water Supply Forecasting, organized by DrivenData in collaboration with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Competing against…

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20 December 2024

A new article in Climate and Development explores the critical challenges of water scarcity, land degradation, and migration in Central Asia. The region faces mounting pressures from rapid urbanization, population growth, inefficient agriculture, and…

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18 December 2024

On the 29th of November, the Europe-LAND team from IAMO and the University of Copenhagen released a harmonized database of field-level land use data for almost all countries of the EU with a temporal coverage of up to 20 years. With the help of all…

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