Radiative forcing (RF) quantifies how human activities and natural factors perturb the energy balance and flow of the climate system (Andrews & Forster, 2020;Ramanathan, 1975). It is often used to characterize the degree of contribution of greenhouse gases, aerosols, clouds, and land cover change to climate (Bellouin et al., 2019;. A primary effect of RF on climate change is through temperature feedback, with positive forcing leading to warming and negative forcing leading to cooling (Sherwood et al., 2015). Of those significant climate forcers contributing to RF, land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) has been a global concern due to its significant influence on the carbon balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and carbon emission (
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