ISBN:
0387788638
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (4488 KB, 292 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Land-Change Science in the Tropics : Changing Agricultural Landscapes
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmental management
;
Land use
;
Landscape ecology
;
Human geography
;
Landscape changes
Abstract:
The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and invited contributions that cover important geographical and thematic issues not addressed at the meeting. In particular, there will be a balance between old agricultural regions (eg. Mediterranean, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Andes, Southern Africa, and upland Southeast Asia) and regions recently converted to agriculture, for example, the Brazilian Cerrado, the Yucatan Penninsula, and Bolivian Chapare. Systematic themes to be explored in this book include the impacts of trade liberalisation, the impacts of narcotics as crops, technological change, new regionally based agricultural organizations, migration impacts on agricultural land use, and agricultural intensification.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Changing Countryside; Stasis and Flux in Long-Inhabited Locales: Change in Rural Andean Landscapes; The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal; Land-Use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India and Pakistan, 1901-2004; Agricultural Intensification on Brazil's Amazonian Soybean Frontier; Coffee Production Intensification and Landscape Change in Colombia, 1970-2002; Plant Invasions in an Agricultural Frontier: Linking Satellite, Ecological and Household Survey Data; Shifting Ground: Land Competition and Agricultural Change in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
Description / Table of Contents:
Village Settlement, Deforestation, and the Expansion of Agriculture in a Frontier Region: Nang Rong, ThailandMarket Integration and Market Realities on the Mexican Frontier: The Case of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico; Frameworks for Farmland Afforestation in Rural China: An Assessment of Household-based and Collective Management; Cost-benefit Analysis of Two Models of Agroforestry Systems in Rondônia, Brazil; Agricultural Land-Use Trajectories in a Cocaine Source Region: Chapare, Bolivia; The Tobacco Industry in Malawi: A Globalized Driver of Local Land Change
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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