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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.
Contents
The Changing Countryside.- Stasis and Flux in Long-Inhabited Locales: Change in Rural Andean Landscapes.- The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal.- Land-Use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India and Pakistan,1901-2004..- Agricultural Intensification on Brazil's Amazonian Soybean Frontier.- Coffee Production Intensification and Landscape Change in Colombia, 1970-2002.- Plant Invasions in an Agricultural Frontier: Linking Satellite, Ecological and Household Survey Data.- Shifting Ground Land Competition and Agricultural Change in Northern Cote d' Ivoire.- Village Settlement, Deforestation, and the Expansion of Agriculture in a Frontier Region: Nang Rong, Thailand.- Market Integration and Market Realities on the Mexican Frontier:The Case of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico.- Frameworks for Farmland Afforestation in Rural China: An Assessment of Household-based and Collective Management.- Cost-benefit Analysis of Two Models of Agroforestry Systems in Rondônia, Brazil.- Agricultural land-use trajectories in a cocaine source region:Chapare, Bolivia.- The Tobacco Industry in Malawi: A Globalized Driver of Local Land Change.