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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lambin, Eric F. (Editor), Geist, Helmut (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Global Change - The IGBP Series,
• Subjects: Environment.; Economic geology.; Geobiology.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Climate change.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Human geography.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Climate Change.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Economic Geology.; Human Geography.; Biogeosciences.

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...