| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The changing countryside / Wendy Jepson and Andrew Millington -- Stasis and flux in long-inhabited locales: change in rural Andean landscapes / Kenneth R. Young -- The impact of climate change on income diversification and food security in Senegal / Molly E. Brown -- Land-use changes and agricultural growth in India and Pakistan / Takashi Kurosaki -- Agricultural intensification on Brazil's Amazonian soybean frontier / Wendy Jepson, J. Christopher Brown, and Matthew Koeppe -- Coffee production intensification and landscape change in Colombia, 1970-2002 / Andres Guhl -- Plant invasions in an agricultural frontier: linking satellite, ecological, and household survey data / Laura C. Schneider -- Shifting ground land competition and agricultural change in northern Cote d'Ivoire / Thomas J. Bassett and Moussa Kone -- Village settlement, deforestation, and the expansion of agriculture in a frontier region: Nang Rong, Thailand / Barbara Entwisle [and others] -- Market integration and market realities on the Mexican frontier: the case of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico / Eric Keys -- Frameworks for farmland afforestation in rural China: an assessment of household-based and collective management / Laura Ediger -- Cost-benefit analysis of two models of agroforestry systems in Rhodonia, Brazil / Keila Aires -- Agricultural land-use trajectories in a cocaine source region: Chapare, Bolivia / Andrew Bradley and Andrew Millington -- The tobacco industry in Malawi: a globalized driver of local land change / Helmut Geist, Marty Otanez, and John Kapito |
| Summary |
Land use and land-cover change research over the past decade has focused mainly on contemporary primary land-cover conversions in the tropics and sub-tropics, with considerable resources dedicated to the explanation and prediction of tropical deforestation and often ignoring the dynamism in the world's agro-pastoral landscapes. This collection integrates cutting-edge research in the social, biogeophysical, and geographical information sciences to understand the human and environmental dynamics that change the type, magnitude and location of land uses and land covers in the changing countryside. Our contributors are from across the globe and draw on diverse empirical pan-tropical case studies and disciplinary influences. The research reported examines land-use and land-cover change in Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, India, Malawi, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal and Thailand. Each chapter in this book advances one of three themes: (i) adaptations and change in settled agricultural zones, (ii) agricultural intensification, and (iii) markets and institutions. This book describes the monitoring of land-cover changes, explains the processes through which land is altered, and describes the development of spatially-explicit models to predict land change. This book illustrates how practitioners have integrated knowledge from the three scientific realms - social, biophysical, and GIScience - that underpin land-change science |
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milieu |
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environment |
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landbouw |
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agriculture |
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milieubeheer |
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environmental management |
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geografische informatiesystemen |
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geographical information systems |
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cartografie |
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mapping |
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geografie |
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geography |
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landschapsecologie |
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landscape ecology |
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Environmental Sciences (General) |
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Milieuwetenschappen (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2019) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Landscape changes -- Tropics
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Land use -- Tropics
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Environmental management.
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Human geography.
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Landscape ecology.
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Agriculture.
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Agriculture
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Geographic Information Systems
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environmental control.
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agriculture (discipline)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Land use -- Tropics.
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Environmental management.
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Human geography.
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Landscape ecology.
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Landscape changes -- Tropics.
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environmental management
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Human geography
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Land use
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Landscape changes
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Landscape ecology
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Tropics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Millington, A. C.
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Jepson, Wendy.
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| ISBN |
9780387788647 |
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0387788646 |
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