Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Local Processes and Global Impacts
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Beschreibung
The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among the causative mechanisms behind land change, synergetic factor combinations are found to be more common than single key factor explanations. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. Innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction are presented. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies, and on new directions and frontiers of research.
Among the causative mechanisms behind land change, synergetic factor combinations are found to be more common than single key factor explanations. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of earth-system functioning. This book presents innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction.
Historically and empirically well grounded analytical information Trade-offs on what needs to be sustained and what to be developed Structured summarization Understandable to scientists and other interested readers
Autor*in
Eric F. Lambin
Themen in »Land-Use and Land-Cover Change«
Land cover Land surface Land use Scale biosphere ecosystem environment environmental change forest integration modeling terrestrial ecosystem climate change landscape/regional and urban planning economic geology