Exploring sustainable land use in monsoon Asia / Yukio Himiyama, editor.
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 spo...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1 Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia; Abstract; 1.1 LUCC (Land Use/Cover Change Programme); 1.2 GLP (Global Land Project); 1.3 Disasters and Land Use; 1.4 SLUAS (Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia) Project; 1.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Land Use Change in China; 2 Urbanization in Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province in China Since ca. 1930; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Urbanization Study on China; 2.3 Study Areas and Method; 2.4 Urbanization in the Fourteen Study Areas; 2.4.1 Land Use ca. 1930.
- 2.4.2 Expansion of Urban Areas During Ca. 1930â#x80;#x93;Ca. 20002.4.3 Loss of Agricultural Land; 2.4.4 Physical Barriers to Urban Expansion; 2.4.5 Identification of Urban Expansion; 2.5 Conclusions; References; 3 Reorganization of Suburban Areas in Terms of Real Estate Utilization and Transformation of Evicted Farmers; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Role and Characteristics of This Research; 3.1.2 Target Region; 3.2 Land Utilization Change in Settlement 5 of Former Lihuangcun; 3.2.1 Land Utilization of the Communities; 3.2.2 Utilization of Housing Sites by Farmers.
- 3.2.3 Relationships of Relatives3.3 Housing Utilization and Life Recovery After Eviction; 3.3.1 Overall Condition of Residential Members in Settlement 5; 3.3.2 Pattern of Housing Utilization and Life Recovery; 3.4 Observation and Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Economic Development and Land Use Changes in an Inland Area of China: A Case Study of Gansu Province; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Land Use Trends in China; 4.3 Gansu Province Geography and Land Use; 4.3.1 Gansu Province Physical and Political Geography; 4.3.2 Land Use Distribution in Gansu.
- 4.4 Land Use Changes in the Western Area of the Province4.4.1 Agricultural Land Uses and Recent Changes; 4.4.2 Cities and Energy Producing Industry; 4.5 Land Use Changes on the Loess Plateau; 4.6 Land Use Changes in Urban Areas; 4.6.1 Urban Development of Lanzhou City; 4.6.2 New City Development; 4.7 Factors Affecting Land Use Changes in Gansu Province; References; 5 The Change of the Traditional Urbanization and Its Future Development Focus in China; Abstract; 5.1 The Understanding of Urbanization; 5.2 A Brief Recall of the Historical Urbanization in China.
- 5.3 The Lessons from the Past and Present Urbanization in China5.4 The Problems Resulting from the Acceleration Urbanization; 5.5 The Development of Middle- and Small-Scaled Cities in the Coming Urbanization in China; References; Land Use Change in India; 6 Landuse Sustainability of Agricultural Zones; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 Background; 6.1.1.1 Note on Study Region; 6.1.1.2 Global Impact on Local Food Security; 6.1.1.3 Farmers Blunder in Crop Selection Method; 6.1.1.4 The Question of Sustainability Between Climatological Zones; 6.2 Methodology; 6.3 General Land Use of Karnataka.