Tools For Land Use Analysis On Different Scales

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This book reflects the results of more than ten years of cooperative research involving Wageningen Agricultural University (y. l AU) in the Netherlands, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE; Centro Agron6mico Tropical de lnvestigaci6n y Ensefianza) in Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG; Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadeda) as part of the Research Program on Sustainability in Agriculture (REPOSA) in the Central American country. The type of cooperation was unusual as it focused on both research and the education of students undertaking either M. Sc. thesis projects or a program of practical training in the various aspects of studying land use. Since funding was provided by W AU, a high degree of scientific autonomy was created that has clearly benefited the independent, scientific rigor of the work. Over the ten-year period, the program has changed from being a patchwork of various insulated specialist projects, into a truly interdisciplinary effort, leading to the development of innovative tools for analyzing land use on a number of geographical scales. These tools are presented in this book. Besides CATIE and MAG, cooperation with other Costa Rican partner institutions has been essential from the beginning, and this process of interaction has also evolved considerably over time.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Bas Bouman
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2013-12-19
File : 278 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789401090247


Systems Research For Optimizing Future Land Use In South And Southeast Asia

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Genre : Land use
Author : Reimund P. Roetter
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Release : 2000
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789712201431


Land Use Analysis And Planning For Sustainable Food Security

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : P. K. Aggarwal
Publisher : IRRI
Release : 2001
File : 175 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789712201684


Making World Development Work

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"The authors reexamine world development - usually the province of economists - as professionals trained in the natural sciences. They show how we have and might use tested scientific and technical procedures and concepts, as well as science itself, to achieve much better results than what has been characteristic of the past. Leclerc and Hall contend that to scholars with a scientific background, the process of development, and the economic logic behind it, often look almost surrealistic. The basic question at the foundation of this review is this: Why should something so important as world development, something capable of absorbing such vast sums of money and of human goodwill, something that impacts the people and the environment so much, continue to be organized and planned using economic techniques and theories that are both unconfirmed experimentally and proven to have led to development failures?"--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Grégoire Leclerc
Publisher : UNM Press
Release : 2007
File : 664 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0826337333


Characterizing And Understanding Rainfed Environments

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Overview; Tools and methodologies for biophysical characterization; Biophysical characterization and mapping; Characterizing biotic stresses; Socioeconomic characterization; Integrating biophysical and socioeconomic characterization.

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Genre : Rainfed lowland rice
Author : T. P. Tuong
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Release : 2000
File : 479 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789712201523


Land Use Cover Datasets And Validation Tools

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This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps and models. Besides, this book is enriched with practical exercises to be applied with QGIS. The book includes a description of relevant global and supra-national LUC datasets currently available. Finally, the book provides the user with all the information required to manage and download these datasets.

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Genre : Computers
Author : David García-Álvarez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2022-06-16
File : 460 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030909987


Linking People Place And Policy

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Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach describes a breadth of research associated with the study of human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on land use and land cover dynamics. This book examines the social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of land use and land cover patterns and their dynamics, which are interpreted within a policy-relevant context. Concepts, tools, and techniques within Geographic Information Science serve as the unifying methodological framework in which landscapes in Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Cambodia, China, Brazil, Nepal, and the United States are examined through analyses conducted using quantitative, qualitative, and image-based techniques. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach addresses a need for a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of GIScience for research and study within the context of human-environment interactions. The human dimensions research community, land use and land cover change programs, and human and landscape ecology communities, among others, are collectively viewing the landscape within a spatially-explicit perspective, where people are viewed as agents of landscape change that shape and are shaped by the landscape, and where landscape form and function are assessed within a space-time context. This book articulates some of these challenges and opportunities.

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Genre : Science
Author : Stephen J. Walsh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 351 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781461509851


Novel Measurement And Assessment Tools For Monitoring And Management Of Land And Water Resources In Agricultural Landscapes Of Central Asia

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The book aims to initiate a sustainable use of land and water resources in Central Asia by the transfer of scientific methods. It deals with the most advanced methods worldwide for better monitoring and management of water and land resources. We offer an array of methods of measuring, assessing, forecasting, utilizing and controling processes in agricultural landscapes. These are laboratory and field measurement methods, methods of resource evaluation, functional mapping and risk assessment, and remote sensing methods for monitoring and modeling large areas. The book contains methods and results of data analysis and ecosystem modeling, of bioremediation of soil and water, field monitoring of soils, and methods and technologies for optimizing land use systems as well. The chapter authors are inventors and advocators of novel transferrable methods. The book starts with an analysis of the current state of water and land resources. Finally concrete proposals for the applicability of novel methods are given.

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Genre : Science
Author : Lothar Mueller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2013-10-04
File : 714 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319010175


Environmental Futures

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As scientists and policymakers try to come to grips with problems such as climate change and risks to biodiversity, they turn more and more frequently to the method of scenario analysis to better understand the future of these problems. Over the last few years scenario analysis has become one of the key tools for bridging environmental science and policy. This is the first book to sum up the current practice of environmental scenario analysis and to propose directions for improving its quality and effectiveness. Chapters are written by an international group of distinguished scenario experts and provide an excellent starting basis for first-time scenario practitioners, as well as a collection of new ideas on improving scenario practice for experienced scenario analysts.* Comprehensive coverage and overview on environmental scenario analysis from a team of international experts* First book to address key contemporary issues involved with environmental scenario analysis* Gives guidelines for best practicesBenefits:* Excellent starting base for first-time scenario practitioners* Helps the reader to interpret scenarios and to place them into the correct context

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Genre : Science
Author : J. Alcamo
Publisher : Elsevier
Release : 2008-10-10
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780080932989


Synthesis Of Methodology Development And Case Studies

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The volume concludes with a brief outline of the most important challenges ahead.

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : Reimund P. Roetter
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Release : 2000
File : 99 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789712201509