Exploring Sustainable Land Use in Monsoon Asia

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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Con la collaborazione di	Yukio Himiyama (Editore), Yuki Himiyama (Editore)
Editore	Springer, Berlin
Contenuto	Libro
Forma del prodotto	Tascabile
Data pubblicazione	01.01.2018
Categoria	Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del pae; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura
EAN	9789811355264
ISBN	978-981-1355-26-4
Numero di pagine	296
Illustrazioni	VIII, 296 p. 189 illus., 119 illus. in color.
Dimensioni (della confezione)	15.5 x 1.6 x 23.5 cm
Peso (della confezione)	464 g
Serie	Springer Geography; Springer Geography
Categorie	Nachhaltigkeit, B, Sustainability, Geography, Regionale Geographie, Urban Planning, Wirtschaftsgeographie, Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Physical geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Regional Geography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Yukio Himiyama (Editore), Yuki Himiyama (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2018
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del pae; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura
• EAN: 9789811355264
• ISBN: 978-981-1355-26-4
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Illustrazioni: VIII, 296 p. 189 illus., 119 illus. in color.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 1.6 x 23.5 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 464 g
• Serie: Springer Geography; Springer Geography
• Categorie: Nachhaltigkeit, B, Sustainability, Geography, Regionale Geographie, Urban Planning, Wirtschaftsgeographie, Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Physical geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Regional Geography