ACRONYMS

AEZ	Agro-Ecological Zoning
BLM	Bureau of Land Management (United States of America)
CATLAS	Chicago Area Transportation Land Allocation Study
CBD	Central Business District
CCA	Canonical Correlation Analysis
CLAUDE	Coordinating Land Use/Land Cover Analyses and Data in Europe
CLUE	Conversion of Land Use and its Effects
CLUSTERS	Classification for Land Use Statistics: Eurostat Remote Sensing Programme
CORINE	Coordinated Information on the European Environment
ECNC	European Centre for Nature Conservation
EFI	European Forest Institute
EIONET	European Environmental Information and Observation Network
ENRICH	European Network for Research in Global Change Network
EU	European Union
EUROSTAT	Statistical Office of the European Communities
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FIRS	Forest Information from Remote Sensing
FLIERS	Fuzzy Land Information from Environmental Remote Sensing project
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GCTE	Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
GEMS	Global Environmental Monitoring System
GIS	Geographic Information System
GOFC	Global Observation of Forest Cover
GOOS	Global Ocean Observing System
GRID	Global Resource Information Database
GTOS	Global Terrestrial Observation System
HUDS	Harvard Urban Development Simulation (model)
IGBP	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IHDP	International Human Dimensions Programme
IIASA	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
IMPEL	Integrated Model to Predict European Land Use
I-0	Input-Output (Analysis)
ISRIC	International Soil Reference and Information Centre
ITLUP	Integrated Transportation Land Use Package
IUCN	International Union for the Conservation of Nature
JRC	Joint Research Center
LANES	Land Cover/Land Use Earth Observation Data Systems
LUC	Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Europe and Northern Asia
LUCC	Land Use and Cover Change
MARS	Monitoring Agriculture by Remote Sensing
MEDALUS	Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use
NBER	National Bureau of Economic Research
NUTS	Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
PDE	Population-Development-Environment
PLUM	Projective Land Use Model
SIC	Standard Industrial Classification
SPOT	Systeme Pour L’ Observation de la Terre
TERI	Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Initiative
TOMM	Time Oriented Metropolitan Model
TREES	Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observation by Satellite
UI	Urban Institute (model)
UNCCC	United Nations Convention for Climate Change
UNCCD	United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UN ECE	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
USDA	United States Department of Agriculture
USFS	United States Forest Service
USGS	United States Geological Service
UTP	Urban Transportation Planning