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 impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. Innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction are presented. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies, and on new direc…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lambin, Eric F. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-642-06882-9
- EAN: 9783642068829
- Produktnummer: 10686937
- Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H27.0 cm x B19.3 cm x D1.3 cm 530 g
- Auflage: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 530
Über den Autor
Eric Lambin is Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the IGBP-IHDP Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project, besides contributing to many other international scientific projects and initiatives. His research focuses on remote sensing, tropical deforestation, desertification and land use transitions.Helmut Geist is Professor of Human-Environment Interactions at the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom, and former Executive Director of the IGBP-IHDP Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project. His research focuses on environment/development issues and political ecology.
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