ANALYZING LAND COVER CHANGE AND IT’S DRIVERS BASED ON MULTI-SOURCE DATASETS: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTHERN VIETNAMESE MOUNTAINS
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.n4.4697Keywords:
Land Cover Change, Multi-Scale, Northern Vietnam, Remote SensingAbstract
Land Use/Land Cover Change (LUCC) results from processes operating across multiple spatial scales and organizational levels. These changes are driven not only by exogenous factors, such as land-use policies, economic modernization, and globalization, but also by endogenous household-level livelihood decisions. This study compares land cover data from multiple sources to reconstruct historical land cover dynamics from the 1950s to the present across different spatial scales in the northern Vietnamese mountains. Analyses were conducted at the provincial level in Lao Cai Province and at district and village levels in Sa Pa district, using high- to very high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Results indicate a net loss of forest cover during the long-term period (1952–2012). In contrast, short-term analyses (2000–2014) reveal increasing forest cover at village, district, and provincial levels, with the largest gains observed at the provincial scale (8,630 ha yr⁻¹). Changes in Sa Pa district and selected communes were considerably smaller. Overall trends are consistent with national patterns. Multi-scale analysis identifies land-use policies, agricultural intensification, livelihood diversification, accessibility, and poverty as key drivers of land cover change in the northern Vietnamese mountains.
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