Changes in land use and land cover : a global perspective /

Corporate Authors: OIES Global Change Institute Snowmass Village, Colo.), Cambridge University Press, University Corporation of America. Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies
Other Authors: Meyer, William,, Turner, B. L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Global land-use and land-cover change: an overview
  • Working group reports: A wiring diagram for the study of land-use/cover change: report of working group A
  • Toward a typology and regionalization of land-cover and land-use change: report of working group B
  • Land-use and land-cover projections: report of working group C
  • Changes in land use and land cover: Forests and tree cover
  • Grasslands
  • Human settlements
  • Environmental consequences
  • Atmospheric chemistry and air quality
  • Soils
  • Hydrology and water quality
  • Human driving forces: Population and income
  • Technology
  • Political-economic institutions
  • culture and cultural change
  • Issues in data and modeling: Modeling land-atmosphere interactions: a short review
  • Modeling global change in an integrated framework: a view from the social sciences
  • Data on Global land-cover change: acquisition, assessment, and analysis