1st Edition
Understanding Land-Use and Land-cover Change in Global and Regional Context
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