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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lambin, Eric F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Geist, Helmut (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Σειρά: Global Change - The IGBP Series,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.