Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Local Processes and Global Impacts / edited by Eric F. Lambin, Helmut J. Geist.

The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among the causative mechanisms behind land change, synergetic factor combinations are found to be more common than single key factor explanations. Aggregated globally, multiple impa...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lambin, Eric F. (Editor), Geist, Helmut J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Global Change - The IGBP Series,
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