Impacts of Land-use Change on Ecosystem Services

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zhan, Jinyan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Springer Geography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecosystems.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental sciences.; Environmental economics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Economics.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society. The relationship between land use, ecosystem services and human well-being is a hot topic, and there have been some important achie...

Table of Contents:

• Reviews on impact assessments of land use changes on key ecosystem services
• Impact assessments on agricultural productivity of land use changes
• Impact assessments of land use changes on valued ecosystem services
• Impact assessments of land use changes on ecosystem services of grassland
• Impact assessments on water and heat fluxes of terrestrial ecosystem due to land use changes
• Land-use oriented conservation of ecosystem services.