EDITORIAL
Land use changes, degradation, and impact on ecosystem services in Asia and Southeast Asia
Krishna Vadrevu,
Garik Gutman, Matsunaga Tsuneo,
Chris Justice,
Corresponding Author
Krishna Vadrevu
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
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Krishna Vadrevu, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorMatsunaga Tsuneo
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorChris Justice
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Search for more papers by this authorKrishna Vadrevu,
Garik Gutman, Matsunaga Tsuneo,
Chris Justice,
Corresponding Author
Krishna Vadrevu
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Correspondence
Krishna Vadrevu, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorMatsunaga Tsuneo
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorChris Justice
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 05 December 2023
Open Research
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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