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Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era /
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era: An Introduction
- Land-Use Competition
- 2 Trends in Global Land-Use Competition
- 3 Food Production and Land Use
- 4 Finite Land Resources and Competition
- 5 Land-Use Competition between Food Production and Urban Expansion in China
- Distal Land Connections
- 6 Globalization, Economic Flows, and Land-Use Transitions
- 7 Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science
- 8 Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change
- 9 Palm Oil as a Case Study of Distal Land Connections
- Decision Making, Governance, and Institutions
- 10 Emergent Global Land Governance
- 11 Large-Scale Land Transactions: Actors, Agency, Interactions
- 12 Private Market-Based Regulations: What They Are, and What They Mean for Land-Use Governance
- 13 Changes in Land-Use Governance in an Urban Era
- Urbanization and Land Use
- 14 Range of Contemporary Urban Patterns and Processes
- 15 How Is Urban Land Use Unique?
- 16 Reconceptualizing Land for Sustainable Urbanity
- Looking Forward
- 17 Ways Forward to Explore Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing World
- Bibliography
- Subject Index.