1st Edition

Understanding Land-Use and Land-cover Change in Global and Regional Context

Edited By Elena Milanova, Yukio Himiyama Copyright 2005

    Most of the papers of this book were presented in the "IGU-LUCC 2003 Moscow Workshop on Global and Regional Land Use/Cover Changes" and at International Conference "Society and Environment Interaction Under Global and Regional Changes" which was held in Barnaul (Altai), Russia in summer 2003.

    Part 1: Global Trends of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change and their Interaction with Global Environmental Changes: Globalization of the Studies of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
    Interactions of Society and Environment in Economically and Ecologically Marginal Lands
    Climate Change and its Impact on Agricultural Production in Russia
    Indicative Properties of Agricultural Landscapes for Studying Global and Local Changes of Environment within Taiga Zone of the Russian Plain
    Interaction between Major Agricultural Ecosystems and the Global Change in Eastern China
    Part 2: Regional Diversity and Trends of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
    Environmental Effects of Land-Use Change in the Last 50 Years in Suizhou, Hubei Province, China
    Change in Land Cover and Cultural Landscapes in South-Western Part of Moscow Region, Russia
    Historical Changes of Czech Landscapes in 1845-2000 and their Natural and Social Driving Forces Studied at Different Spatial Levels
    Development of Connotations in Land Consolidation in China
    Part 3: Integration of Environmental, Socio-Economic and Historical Knowledge of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
    Drivers of Agricultural Land-Use Change in Scotland
    Political Events Factoring into Land-Use Changes in Czechia in the 20th Century
    Land-Cover Changes by Land-Use Changes on the Islands of Elba and Malta, Mediterranean Sea
    Land Use in Brazil
    Major Contemporary Changes and their Driving Forces
    Part 4: Documentation, Classification and Mapping Issues
    Documenting Land-Use Change in China Using Digital Video, GPS, and GIS Technologies
    Landscape Approach for Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification and Mapping at Different Scales
    Forest Cover Mapping of Uttaranchal State, India
    Examination of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in North Korea since the 1970s
    Application of Image Regression Analysis Using NDVI from Landsat Data
    Electronic Landscape-Historical Atlas and Investigation of Land-Use Dynamics in Moscow Region, Russia
    Part 5: Land-Use Management and Policy in Different Regions: Ecological Networking as a Tool for Land-Use Management
    Climatic and Political Factors in Agricultural Performance of Russia
    Soda Saline Soil Improvement and Agricultural Sustainable Development in Daan City, Jilin Province, China

    Biography

    Milanova, Elena ; Himiyama, Yukio