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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lambin, Eric F. (Editor), Geist, Helmut J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Global Change - The IGBP Series
Subjects:
Physical geography.
Environment.
Human geography.
Geology.
Biogeography.
Earth System Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Human Geography.
Biogeosciences.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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