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The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and invited contributions that cover important geographical and thematic issues not addressed at the meeting. In particular, there will be a balance between old agricultural regions (eg. Mediterranean, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Andes, Southern Africa, and upland Southeast Asia) and regions recently converted to agriculture, for example, the Brazilian Cerrado, the Yucatan Penninsula, and Bolivian Chapare. Systematic themes to be explored in this book include the impacts of trade liberalisation, the impacts of narcotics as crops, technological change, new regionally based agricultural organizations, migration impacts on agricultural land use, and agricultural intensification.

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Author:   Andrew Millington ,  Wendy Jepson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781441946256

ISBN 10:   144194625
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   04 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Changing Countryside.- Stasis and Flux in Long-Inhabited Locales: Change in Rural Andean Landscapes.- The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal.- Land-Use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India and Pakistan,1901-2004..- Agricultural Intensification on Brazil’s Amazonian Soybean Frontier.- Coffee Production Intensification and Landscape Change in Colombia, 1970-2002.- Plant Invasions in an Agricultural Frontier: Linking Satellite, Ecological and Household Survey Data.- Shifting Ground Land Competition and Agricultural Change in Northern Cote d’ Ivoire.- Village Settlement, Deforestation, and the Expansion of Agriculture in a Frontier Region: Nang Rong, Thailand.- Market Integration and Market Realities on the Mexican Frontier:The Case of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico.- Frameworks for Farmland Afforestation in Rural China: An Assessment of Household-based and Collective Management.- Cost-benefit Analysis of Two Models of Agroforestry Systems in Rondônia, Brazil.- Agricultural land-use trajectories in a cocaine source region:Chapare, Bolivia.- The Tobacco Industry in Malawi: A Globalized Driver of Local Land Change.

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Andrew Millington is Professor of Geography and Director of Environmental Programs in Geosciences at Texas A&M University. He was previously Chair of the Dept of Geography at Leicester University, has worked at the Universities of Reading and Sierra Leone, and has been Visiting Professor at University College, Dublin and the University of Gent. He has received B.Sc. (Hull University, 1973), M.A. (University of Colorado, 1977) and D. Phil. (University of Sussex, 1985) degrees. He has researched natural resources issues in western Asia, Africa and South America with funding from the European Union, The World Bank and the UK Natural Environmental Research Council. He was formerly Editor of The Geographical Journal and he serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of the AAG and The Geographical Journal. Wendy Jepson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. She earned her doctorate from the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Her research focuses on land-use and land-cover change along South America's modern agricultural frontier, particularly the savannas and dry tropical forests, and the transformation of landscapes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. She also examines the relationship between water, society, and equity on the US-Mexico Border. She serves on the editorial board of GeoJournal: An International Journal of Geography

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