Land Use In Transition

Author : Hualou Long
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811549243

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Land Use Transitions and Rural Restructuring in China by Hualou Long Pdf

Intended as a comprehensive guide to the study of land use and rural development, this book offers detailed descriptions of land use transitions and rural restructuring. To do so, it chiefly focuses on three main aspects, the first of which is the application of geographical perspectives in order to understand rural issues in connection with urbanization, industrialization, globalization and rural vitalization strategies in contemporary China. Secondly, it presents a rich blend of regional and national analyses; detailed explorations of local cases; and critical and theoretically informed discussions that address historical paths and future projections. Lastly, it adapts concepts derived from western literature to situations and experiences in rural China, and provides empirical evidence from an “insider” perspective. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, and for graduate students / courses in geography and sociology.

Author : Xiangbin Kong,Shougeng Hu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3036521135

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Land Use Transitions Under Rapid Urbanization by Xiangbin Kong,Shougeng Hu Pdf

Land use transition is the manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is also a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science (LSS). Land provides essential resources to society, and its changes have large consequences for the local and global environment and human well-being. The past, current, and projected state and dynamics of land use represent the major focus of land use science, which is influenced by long-term anthropogenic changes. The concept of land use transition highlights the fact that land use change demonstrates a non-linear process and is related to other societal and biophysical disturbances through a series of transitions. Land use transitions can be seen as the primary forces driving the transformation and development of the rural-urban territorial system and bringing about direct socioeconomic and environmental effects on regional sustainability. Land use transitions can be measured by changes in both the dominant morphology (e.g., quantity, structure, and spatial patterns) and the recessive morphology (e.g., quality, property rights, management mode, fixed input, productive ability, and function) of land use. The aim of this book was to detect or examine the processes, patterns, and socioeconomic and environmental effects of land use transitions and the mechanisms of human-land interactions against the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization from a wide range of perspectives, as well as the provision of solutions for sustainable land use based on scientific findings.

Author : Ralph E. Heimlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : CORNELL:31924059894000

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Land Use Transition in Urbanizing Areas by Ralph E. Heimlich Pdf

Author : Martin Ravallion,Dominique van de Walle
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821372742

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Land in Transition by Martin Ravallion,Dominique van de Walle Pdf

This book offers a set of methods, drawing on the tool kit of modern economics, to ascertain what Vietnam's economy would have looked like without reforms and assesses what types of households are likely to gain from the reforms. The book's findings have implications on broader issues of social protection in developing rural economies.

Author : Urban Land Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Land use, Urban
ISBN : OCLC:28118843

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ULI on the Future by Urban Land Institute Pdf

Author : Cecilie Friis,Jonas Ø. Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030111052

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Telecoupling by Cecilie Friis,Jonas Ø. Nielsen Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Author : Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030702380

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Mountain Landscapes in Transition by Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal Pdf

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.

Author : Charles Redman,David R. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190451295

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Agrarian Landscapes in Transition by Charles Redman,David R. Foster Pdf

Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans impose their spatial and temporal signatures on ecological regimes, and how does this manipulation affect the earth and nature's desire for equilibrium? Studies were conducted at six Long Term Ecological Research sites within the US, including New England, the Appalachian Mountains, Colorado, Michigan, Kansas, and Arizona. While each site has its own unique agricultural history, patterns emerge that help make sense of how our actions have affected the earth, and how the earth pushes back. The book addresses how human activities influence the spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes, and how this varies over time and across biogeographic regions. It also looks at the ecological and environmental consequences of the resulting structural changes, the human responses to these changes, and how these responses drive further changes in agrarian landscapes. The time frames studied include the ecology of the earth before human interaction, pre-European human interaction during the rise and fall of agricultural land use, and finally the biological and cultural response to the abandonment of farming, due to complete abandonment or a land-use change such as urbanization.

Author : Eric Koomen,Judith Borsboom-van Beurden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400718227

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Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice by Eric Koomen,Judith Borsboom-van Beurden Pdf

This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model, which has been used in spatial planning for well over a decade. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for trend extrapolation, scenario studies and optimization, yet can also be employed in a smaller-scale regional context, as demonstrated by the assortment of regional case studies included in the book. Alongside these practical examples from the Netherlands, readers will find discussion of more theoretical aspects of land-use models as well as an assessment of various studies that aim to develop the Land-Use Scanner model further. Spanning the divide between the abstractions of land-use modelling and the imperatives of policy making, this is a cutting-edge account of the way in which the Land-Use Scanner approach is able to interrogate a spectrum of issues that range from climate change to transportation efficiency. Aimed at planners, researchers and policy makers who need to stay abreast of the latest advances in land-use modelling techniques in the context of planning practice, the book guides the reader through the applications supported by current instrumentation. It affords the opportunity for a wide readership to benefit from the extensive and acknowledged expertise of Dutch planners, who have originated a host of much-used models.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economics, Governance, and International Studies,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Panel on New Research on Population and the Environment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309096553

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Population, Land Use, and Environment by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economics, Governance, and International Studies,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Panel on New Research on Population and the Environment Pdf

Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a set of state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironment relationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdeveloped countries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methods are being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers, research funders, and students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015075285554

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Metropolitan America in Transition: Implications for Land Use and Transportation Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Valerie Dewaelheyns,Hans Leinfelder,Hubert Gulinck
Publisher : Gompel&Svacina
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789463710459

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Challenging the boxes by Valerie Dewaelheyns,Hans Leinfelder,Hubert Gulinck Pdf

Challenges of sustainability and transition need innovative tools for the understanding, mapping, designing and governing of manmade sites and territories. Complementary to standard land use categories, such as housing and agriculture, this book of essays introduces eleven ‘interface categories’, labels for land use interactions, transitions, mixes, and spatial and temporal positions in between. Authors from different disciplines describe and illustrate how this set of interfaces resonates with their own projects, challenges and agendas, and how it sheds light on new land use agents, on unregistered forms of land occupation, and on opportunities for socio-economic and ecosystem services. The concept of interfaces encourages the development of adapted modes of planning and management for urban, rural or natural environments, and on different spatial scales.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264473843

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Managing Environmental and Energy Transitions for Regions and Cities by OECD Pdf

This report offers guidance on how to prepare regions and cities for the transition towards a climate-neutral and circular economy by 2050 and is directed to all policymakers seeking to identify and implement concrete and ambitious transition pathways. It describes how cities, regions, and rural areas can manage the transition in a range of policy domains, including energy supply, conversion, and use, the transformation of mobility systems, and land use practices.

Author : Zarema Akhmadiyeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3959921497

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Institutional Change and Agricultural Land Use in Transition Countries by Zarema Akhmadiyeva Pdf

Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Common Property Resource Development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Forest Cover Change in Space and Time by Arild Angelsen Pdf

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use. While this is a simple and powerful starting point, more intriguing issues arise when this is applied to analyze real cases. An initial shift in the rent of one particular land use generates feedbacks which affect the rent of all land uses. For example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable and lead to more forest clearing, but general equilibrium effects (changes in prices and local wages) can modify or even reverse this conclusion. Another issue is how a policy change or a shift in broader market, technological, and institutional forces will affect various land use rents. The paper deals with three such areas: technological progress in agriculture, land tenure regimes, and community forest management. The second part of the paper links the von Thunen framework to the forest transition theory. The forest transition theory describes a sequence over time where a forested region goes through a period of deforestation before the forest cover eventually stabilizes and starts to increase. This sequence can be seen as a systematic pattern of change in the agricultural and forest land rents over time. Increasing agricultural rent leads to high rates of deforestation. The slow-down of deforestation and eventual reforestation is due to lower agricultural rents (the economic development path) and higher forest rent (the forest scarcity path). Various forces leading to these changes are discussed and supported by empirical evidence from different tropical regions.