understand local change at
global scales.
GLOBE is now open to all members of the land change science community.
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Recent News
Have you browsed a Global Variable today?
All of the global variables in GLOBE are interactive online maps that can be viewed without logging in. Click this link to begin. The tour begins with Terrestrial Biomes (potential vegetation)- click the map to zoom in to any area you like. To view another variable, click the “select a different variable” button at upper
It Takes a Village- To Understand Global Change
Why do we need GLOBE? Because in the Anthropocene, local change is global change. In the early 1990s, I set out to study ecological sustainability in China’s Tai Lake Region; famous since ancient times for high rice yields and dense populations. What I learned from the farmers of Xiejia Village changed me for good. These
Global Land Project Synthesis Survey
In preparation for the Open Science Meeting (OSM 2014) of the Global Land Project (GLP) in Berlin this March, a survey is being conducted to assess the state of land-change science, identify new emerging research priorities, and support the GLP‘s transition to it’s next phase. An initial summary of results will be presented during the closing session
Over 800 cases in the GLOBE database!
It was a long and arduous road, but we finally made it. The “Cases Team”, as they’re called, spent the last two years contributing cases to the GLOBE database, and we’ve reached a milestone of over 800 cases! In an effort to build valuable content for the Land Change Science (LCS) community, cases were sourced from
