Land Use Policy

Land use in Bhutan has undergone substantial change over the past several decades. Forest cover increased by about 1100 km² and shrubland by about 2000 km² during the 25-year period to 2020, mostly at the expense of agricultural land. Using participatory rural appraisal techniques to assess perceptions of stakeholders on the extent and direction of land use changes and the impacts on forests, rev…

Rewetting organic soils used in agriculture to lower GHG emissions makes current land use practices impossible, leading to costs that go beyond the technical aspects of rewetting. Farmers have to forgo the profits that could be achieved with the drained use of organic soils. We estimate these costs at the municipal level based on a crop-type map generated using remote sensing technologies, combin…

Understanding investment-construction processes and their dynamics is crucial for effective urban planning, but these processes are often complex and fragmented. While advances in GeoAI offer powerful new tools for analysis, conventional approaches to studying urban development face two key limitations. First, they frequently neglect to represent the processual characteristics of development, reg…