Martin Harry Turpin, Ethan A Meyers, Alexander C Walker, Michał Białek, Jennifer A Stolz, Jonathan A Fugelsang
The environmental malleability of base-rate neglect
Psychonomic bulletin & review
internal displacement populations due armed conflicts substantially impact regions land use land cover lulc efforts towards achievement sustainable development goals sdgs objective study determine effects conflictdriven internally displaced persons idps vegetation cover environmental sustainability kas locality darfur sudan supervised classification change analysis performed sentinel2 satellite images years 2016 2022 using qgis software sentinel2 level 2a data analysed using random forest rf machine learning ml classifier five land cover types successfully classified agricultural land vegetation cover builtup area sand bareland overall accuracies 86 kappa coefficients greater 074 results revealed 3533 1020 km2 decline vegetation cover area sixyear study period equivalent average annual loss rate 589 170 km2 vegetation cover contrast agricultural land builtup areas increased 1753 9812 km2 6053 529 km2 respectively two study years trends changes among different lulc classes suggest potential influences human activities especially idps natural processes combination study area study highlights impacts idps natural resources land cover patterns conflictaffected region also offers pertinent data support decisionmakers restoring affected areas preventing environmental degradation sustainability