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Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Land in the tropics and sub tropics occupy approximately 40 percent
of the Earth's surface and is currently home to a a large portion
of the world's population. This book provides a detail ed
scientific account of the current state and condition of land
change in the Tropics. The main themes of tropical land change
science include not only extensification and intensifi cation,
butal so diversification and co mpetition for land; resilience of
land systems; the multiple roles of institutions, markets,
societies, and individu als; andth e effects of decisions made at
manifold spatial, temporal, and organizational scales in
influencing land change. These themes together with issues such as
frontier settleme nt, dynamics of plant invasions and other changes
in environmental qualitya ssociated with alternate land uses
clearly demonstrate the importanceof an integrateda nd
interdisciplinary understanding of socio economic and human systems
aswell as environ mental systems. This book takes such a coupled
approach to human and natural systems and investigates land change
as anexe mplar oft he funda mental interdependence of society,
economy, and environment. Development of methodologies required for
achieving a more integrated and interdisciplinary understanding of
land change in coupled natural and human systems are an important
effort in the international land change sci ence community. This
book addresses and explores manyof t hese meth odologies, provi
ding detailed case studies that demonstrate the importance of
strong methodologies.
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