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Title:
Changes in land use and land cover : a global perspective
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994
Physical Description:
xi, 537 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780521470858

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This book deals with the relationship between land use and land cover: between human activities and the transformation of the Earth's surface. It describes the recent changes in the world's farmland, forests, grasslands and settlements, and the impacts of these changes on soil, water resources and the atmosphere. It explores what is known about the importance of various underlying human sources of land transformation: population growth, technological change, political-economic institutions, political structure, and attitudes and beliefs. Three working group reports outline important avenues for future research: the construction of a global land model, the division of the world into regional situations of land transformation, and a wiring diagram to structure the division of research among fields of study.


Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
1 Global land-use and land-cover change: an overview
Part II Working Group Reports
2 A wiring diagram for the study of land use/cover change: Report of Working Group A
3 Towards a typology and regionalization of land-cover and land-use change: Report of Working Group B
4 Land-use and land-cover projections: Report of Working Group C
Part III Changes in Land Use and Land Cover
5 Forests and tree cover
6 Grasslands
7 Human settlements
Part IV Environmental Consequences
8 Atmospheric chemistry and air quality
9 Soils
10 Hydrology and water quality
Part V Human Driving Forces
Population and income
12 Technology
13 Political-economic institutions
14 Culture and cultural change
Part VI Issues In Data and Modeling
15 Modeling land-atmosphere interactions: a short review
16 Modeling global change in an integrated framework: a view from the social sciences
17 Data on global land-cover change: acquisition, assessment, and analysis
Appendices
Index