Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts
Eric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist, Ronald R. Rindfuss (auth.), Eric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist (eds.)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 directions and frontiers of research.
年:
2006
出版:
1
出版社:
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
语言:
english
页:
222
ISBN 10:
3540322027
ISBN 13:
9783540322023
系列:
Global Change - The IGBP Series
文件:
PDF, 8.03 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2006
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