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Author : Gordon A. Bradley
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Nature
ISBN : 029596104X
Author : Eric F. Lambin,Helmut J. Geist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540322023
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.
Author : Ge Sun,Kevin Bishop,Silvio Ferraz,Julia Jones
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039288236
Forests cover 30% of the Earth’s land area, or nearly four billion hectares. Enhancing the benefits and ecosystem services of forests has been increasingly recognized as an essential part of nature-based solutions for solving many emerging global environmental problems today. A core science supporting forest management is understanding the interactions of forests, water, and people. These interactions have become increasingly complex under climate change and its associated impacts, such as the increases in the intensity and frequency of drought and floods, increasing population and deforestation, and a rise in global demands for multiple ecosystem services including clean water supply and carbon sequestration. Forest watershed managers have recognized that water management is an essential component of forest management. Global environmental change is posing more challenges for managing forests and water toward sustainable development. New science on forest and water is critically needed across the globe. The International Forests and Water Conference 2018, Valdivia, Chile (http://forestsandwater2018.cl/), a joint effort of the 5th IUFRO International Conference on Forests and Water in a Changing Environment and the Second Latin American Conference on Forests and Water provided a unique forum to examine forest and water issues in Latin America under a global context. This book represents a collection of some of the peer-reviewed papers presented at the conference that were published in a Special Issue of Forests.
Author : Michael F. Fox,S. L. Macenko,Canada. Lands Directorate,Canada. Land Use Analysis Division,Canada Land Use Monitoring Program
Publisher : [Hull, Quebec] : Lands Directorate, Environment Canada
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951000455755D
This working paper reports on the current status of knowledge concerning the extent, causes and consequences of land use change on the agriculture-forest interface across Canada. The report isone of the series of both overview and indepth case studies by Lands Directorate which have documented the magnitude, the underlying causes and implications as well as the policy responses to changes on lands of environmental and economic importance to Canada. Research has included studies of the agricultural heartland, the agricultural margins, fruitlands, wetlands, forest lands and energy lands.
Author : Margarit Mircea Nistor
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128232651
Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems: Mitigation and Adaptation provides in-depth information on the linkages between climate change and land use, how they are related, how land use is shifting over time, and the major global regions at risk for climate and land use changes. This comprehensive resource discusses climatic factors and processes that impact natural and artificial systems, as well as the relationship between climate change and both natural and man-made hazards. The book includes case studies and original maps to provide real-life examples of climate change and land use over regions around the globe. In addition, the book presents future perspectives on mitigation and adaptation of the climate change impact. Summarizes current research on land use and climate change Provides future perspectives on climate change using climate models Includes case studies to provide real-life examples from various countries Incorporates high level graphics, images, and maps to support reviews and case studies
Author : Richard J. Aspinall,Michael J. Hill
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420042971
Changes in the use of land reflect a variety of environmental and social factors, necessitating an equally varied suite of data to be used for effective analysis. While remote sensing, both from satellites and air photos, provides a central resource for study, socio-economic surveys, censuses, and map sources also supply a wealth of valid information. Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Management presents spatial theories and methodologies that support an integrated approach to the analysis of land use change. Focusing on spatial representation and modeling, this book addresses such important scientific issues as the dynamics of change, integration and feedback between system elements, and scale issues in space and time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437983982
Author : John L. Innes,Gordon M. Hickey,H. F. Hoen
Publisher : CABI
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781845930134
Considerable emphasis has been placed on the interactions between environmental change and forests in recent years. Reports have been produced detailing scenarios of forest development associated with particular changes in climate. Similarly, scenarios have been produced looking at likely trends in air quality. However, many studies have failed to recognize that some of the biggest changes for forests are related to the socioeconomicenvironment rather that the physical environment. This book considers the interactions between forestry and environmental (climatic) change, from social and economic perspectives.
Author : Stephen J. Walsh,Diego Riveros-Iregui,Javier Arce-Nazario,Philip H. Page
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030439736
Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century. From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term impacts on ecological health, biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services, population vulnerability, and sustainability. These changes and challenges are perhaps nowhere more evident than in island ecosystems. Buffeted by rising ocean temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, climate change, tourism, population migration, invasive species, and resource limitations, islands represent both the greatest vulnerability to globalization and also the greatest scientific opportunity to study the significance of global changes on ecosystem processes, human-environment interactions, conservation, environmental policy, and island sustainability. In this book, we study islands through the lens of Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) and the multi-scale and multi-thematic drivers of change. In addition to assessing the key processes that shape and re-shape island ecosystems and their land cover/land use changes, the book highlights measurement and assessment methods to characterize patterns and trajectories of change and models to examine the social-ecological drivers of change on islands. For instance, chapters report on the results of a meta-analysis to examine trends in published literature on islands, a satellite image time-series to track changes in urbanization, social surveys to support household analyses, field sampling to represent the state of resources and their limitations on islands, and dynamic systems models to link socio-economic data to LCLUC patterns. The authors report on a diversity of islands, conditions, and circumstances that affect LCLUC patterns and processes, often informed through perspectives rooted, for instance, in conservation, demography, ecology, economics, geography, policy, and sociology.
Author : Karan Deo Singh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642322921
This book is intended to support the forestry institutions in the tropical countries in the planning, assessment and systematic observation of forests required to fulfill their obligations as laid in international conventions such as the CBD and UNFCCC. Following the Rio Conference, a number of countries, donors and international organizations have implemented capacity-building projects with varying degrees of success. One main reason for the varying success rates seems to lie in the design of technical assistance programs, which have been formulated on the traditional lines of mainly generating forest resources information or transferring technology; whereas Agenda 21 requires fundamental changes in countries’ institutions and approaches to planning and implementing the conservation and sustainable development of forests through a process of continuing research and analysis. The book is intended to serve the basic needs of national planning strategies and international and donor support.
Author : R. T. Watson,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521800838
Comprehensive, state-of-the-art IPCC report on carbon sequestration and the global carbon cycle.
Author : Peter Spathelf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048133017
Yet another book on the topic of ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ can only be justified by new information that is of direct relevance. The contents of this volume concentrate on the very latest factors and developments, thus, hopefully, contributing both to the book’s attractiveness and to closing gaps in the discipline’s database. This book is written for researchers in the field of forest management, international forestry, and climate change-related issues, legal and policy advisors, as well as for managers of private companies who deal with SFM. The authors of the various sections are scientists in the field of forestry and other environmental sciences. They represent different institutions, mainly universities and research agencies in Germany, but also high-level international institutions in development co-operation, such as the World Bank, FAO, and IIASA. The scope of the book is to refresh the meanings and perceptions of SFM against the background of the rapid changes in our natural and social environment. Climate change and the rapid increase of atmospheric CO concentration is a global process 2 with negative impacts of different kinds, among others on natural ecosystems such as forests. A crucial issue therefore is how forest management can contribute to forest conservation in light of changing climatic conditions. Moreover, policy changes such as the introduction of certification schemes and the new emphasis laid on Non-Wood Forest Products justify the re-evaluation of the role of SFM in delivering ecological goods and services from our forests.
Author : Food and Agriculture
Publisher : Fao
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251088217
Building on data that is more comprehensive and reliable than ever before, covering 234 countries and territories, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 shows encouraging signs of improved forest management and a global slowdown in deforestation. However these trends need to be strengthened, especially in countries that are lagging behind.
Author : Zerihun Lemma
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783346337931
Scientific Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Forestry / Forestry Economics, grade: 1, , course: Forest management, language: English, abstract: This study is aimed to assess the effects of population growth on forest resources exhibiting in Zaba village in Boloso Bombe Woreda and to suggest remedial solutions before the environment is getting worse and its serious outcome. Ethiopia is one of the countries where forest resources degradation exhibits primarily due to population explosion. The forest policy is also not said to be effective in forest policy regards. At present, it is facing a serious ecological problem triggered mainly by the fast growth of population which led to destructive nature of land resource uses involving deforestation even without leaving time space for regeneration of natural forests. The situation exposes the land to serious land degradation altering local environment and microclimate. To change this situation urgent natural resource management primarily forest management strategies intervention is required.
Author : Alan W Ewert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429715419
An examination of culture, conflict and communication in a rural/urban setting.