Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes
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Beschreibung
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.
Considers various research methodologies and diverse data sources that address challenges posed by land use and land cover changes in agro-pastoral landscapes Presents studies that advance methods in the integration of high-temporal resolution remote sensing with data other platforms, GIScience, landscape ecology, participatory rural appraisal, agricultural statistics, and economic modelling
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Andrew Millington
Themen in »Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes«
development integration land change science migration organization tropical and sub-tropical agricultural areas