Overview
- Reports on extensive field surveys that reveal land-use problems otherwise difficult to identify
- Presents land-use change from both the short- and long-term perspectives
- Highlights existing serious problems related to sustainable land use including rapid urbanization, land-use conflicts, and land-related disasters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Land Use Change in China
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Land Use Change in India
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Land Use Change in Japan
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Land Use Change in Other Countries/Regions in Asia
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About this book
This book presents the outcome of the Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (SLUAS) project, which was the pilot undertaking for development in a series of projects on land use. Monsoon Asia, with its huge and still increasing population and rapid socioeconomic changes, is regarded as a major hot spot of global change in general and of land use change in particular. The major issues include urbanization, rural development, land-related problems such as food problems, and disasters in the context of global change and sustainability.
Future Earth, the new international research framework established by International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and other international academic or funding organizations for a sustainable world, has chosen the Global Land Project (GLP) as one of the first such international projects it has endorsed that originated from International Geosphere/Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and/or International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). This endorsement is a clear indication of the importance of the issues related to land use and its changes. Land use change is an essential driving force of environmental change, a result of socioeconomic and environmental changes, and is a major environmental change itself. Because of this complex and multifaceted nature and the difficulties in obtaining relevant data with historical depth, this phenomenon has not been studied fully in the context of global change or sustainability. It is hoped that this book is of use to those who are concerned about the present and future land use in the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Sustainable Land Use in Monsoon Asia
Editors: Yukio Himiyama
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5927-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5926-1Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5526-4Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5927-8Published: 13 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Economic Geography, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Sustainable Development