Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Local Processes and Global Impacts /

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 impa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lambin, Eric F. (Editor ), Geist, Helmut J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Global Change - The IGBP Series
Temas:
Physical geography.
Environment.
Human geography.
Geology.
Biogeography.
Earth System Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Human Geography.
Biogeosciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Local Processes with Global Impacts
  • Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges
  • Causes and Trajectories of Land-Use/Cover Change
  • Multiple Impacts of Land-Use/Cover Change
  • Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
  • Searching for the Future of Land: Scenarios from the Local to Global Scale
  • Linking Land-Change Science and Policy: Current Lessons and Future Integration
  • Conclusion.

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