Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview of the Chinese History During the Past 300 Years

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 1-26

3. Review on China’s Spatially-Explicit Historical Land Cover Datasets and Reconstruction Methods

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 27-42

4. Study Area and Data Source

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 43-63

5. The Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Population Changes in China in the Past 300 Years

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 65-76

6. Farmland Dataset Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 77-92

7. Reconstruction Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Historical Farmland Based on Bottom-up Methodology

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 93-115

8. Farmland Spatial Pattern Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 117-134

9. Conclusions and Research Prospects

   • Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng

   Pages 135-136

10. Back Matter

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This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing historical land-use datasets while addresses accuracy evaluation issues. Historical population size, its growth rate, and the evolution of spatial-temporal patterns of farmland in China have also been discussed. Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland. With a few principles and assumptions, a delicate Cellular Automaton (CA) and Multi-Agents (MAS) model based on bottom-up management scheme has been applied to derive the spatial-temporal distribution of farmland with the 1km*1km grid resolution for the period between 1661 and 1980 in China. Suggestions for future studies related to reconstructing historical land-use changes are then provided.

• Land-use reconstruction in China
• Spatiotemporal pattern of historical land use
• Natural resource management in China
• Historical land-use dataset management
• Historic agriculture, forestry and urban planning in China
• historical geography
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• natural resources and energy economics

• School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang

• School of History and Archives, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

  Yinong Cheng

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