Land-change science in the tropics : changing agricultural landscapes
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Land-change science in the tropics : changing agricultural landscapes
Springer Science+Business Media, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Land in the tropics and sub tropics occupy approximately 40 percent of the Earth's surface and is currently home to a a large portion of the world's population. This book provides a detail ed scientific account of the current state and condition of land change in the Tropics. The main themes of tropical land change science include not only extensification and intensifi cation, butal so diversification and co mpetition for land; resilience of land systems; the multiple roles of institutions, markets, societies, and individu als; andth e effects of decisions made at manifold spatial, temporal, and organizational scales in influencing land change. These themes together with issues such as frontier settleme nt, dynamics of plant invasions and other changes in environmental qualitya ssociated with alternate land uses clearly demonstrate the importanceof an integrateda nd interdisciplinary understanding of socio economic and human systems aswell as environ mental systems. This book takes such a coupled approach to human and natural systems and investigates land change as anexe mplar oft he funda mental interdependence of society, economy, and environment.
Development of methodologies required for achieving a more integrated and interdisciplinary understanding of land change in coupled natural and human systems are an important effort in the international land change sci ence community. This book addresses and explores manyof t hese meth odologies,provi ding detailed case studies that demonstrate the importance of strong methodologies.
目次
Coca markets, anti-coca policies as drivers of agricultural land use change in Bolivia.- Cooperatives, Agricultural Development, and Land Change on a Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado.- Detection, drivers, and dynamics of LULCC in the Sahel: Linking scientists with local decision-makers.- From Farms to Forest Fragments: Agricultural Transition and its Implications.- Land-Use Dynamics and Political-Ecological Aspects: The Spanish Dehesa-System.- Market Integration and Market Realities on a Mexican Frontier.- Migration and other driving forces of land use/cover change in a rural context in western Mexico.- Modern Agriculture on Tropical Frontiers: Rethinking Methods for Land Change Research.- Stasis and flux in long-inhabited locales: Change in rural Andean landscapes.- Study of the economic and financial viability of two agroforestry models as sustainable choices for agriculture in Rondonia, Brasil.- The impact of a fluctuating agenda at the international level on cocoa farms in the humid forest zone of West and Central Africa: Current issues, research and development implications.- The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal.- Understanding Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) Invasion in Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region through Integrated Land-Change Science.- Coffee and Landscape change in Colombia 1970-2002: linking agricultural intensification and land-use and land-cover change.- The tobacco industry and land cover in agricultural regions of southern Africa.- Land use and land cover in traditional swidden cultivation systems in upland SE Asia.- Land use and land cover in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
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