Understanding Land-Use and Land-Change in Global and Regional Context
Editors:
Elena Milanova: Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Yukio Himiyama: Hokkaido University of Education, Hokumoncho, Asahikawa, Japan
Ivan Bicik: Charles University, Prague, Czechia
ISBN 978-1-57808-365-7; 2005; 350 pages; $ 89.00      Buy Now

Most of the papers of this book were presented in the "IGU-LUCC 2003 Moscow Workshop
on Global and Regional Land Use/Cover Changes" and at International Conference "Society
and Environment Interaction Under Global and Regional Changes" which was held in Barnaul
(Altai), Russia in summer 2003.

Contents:
Part 1: Global Trends of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change and their Interaction with Global Environmental Changes
. Globalization of the Studies of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Yukio Himiyama
. Interactions of Society and Environment in Economically and Ecologically Marginal Lands: Eckart Ehlers
. Climate Change and its Impact on Agricultural Production in Russia: Joseph Alcamo et al.
. Indicative Properties of Agricultural Landscapes for Studying Global and Local Changes of Environment within Taiga Zone of the Russian Plain: Olga N. Trapeznikova
.Interaction between Major Agricultural Ecosystems and the Global Change in Eastern China: Shaolin Peng et al.

Part 2: Regional Diversity and Trends of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
. Environmental Effects of Land-Use Change in the Last 50 Years in Suizhou, Hubei Province, China: Lu Qi et al.
. Change in Land Cover and Cultural Landscapes in South-Western Part of Moscow Region, Russia: S.I. Antonov et al.
. Historical Changes of Czech Landscapes in 1845-2000 and their Natural and Social Driving Forces Studied at Different Spatial Levels: Petr Mareš and Premysl Štych
. Development of Connotations in Land Consolidation in China: Lu Qi et al.

Part 3: Integration of Environmental, Socio-Economic and Historical Knowledge of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
. Drivers of Agricultural Land-Use Change in Scotland: R.V. Birnie and A.S. Mather
. Political Events Factoring into Land-Use Changes in Czechia in the 20th Century: Ivan Bicík and Leoš Jelecek
. Land-Cover Changes by Land-Use Changes on the Islands of Elba and Malta, Mediterranean Sea: Bernd Cyffka
. Land Use in Brazil: Major Contemporary Changes and their Driving Forces: Alexey S. Naumov

Part 4: Documentation, Classification and Mapping Issues
. Documenting Land-Use Change in China Using Digital Video, GPS, and GIS Technologies: Lawrence W. Crissman
. Landscape Approach for Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification and Mapping at Different Scales: Elena Milanova et al.
. Forest Cover Mapping of Uttaranchal State, India: R.B. Singh and Praveen Mishra
. Examination of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in North Korea since the 1970s: Application of Image Regression Analysis Using NDVI from Landsat Data: Manik Hwang
. Electronic Landscape-Historical Atlas and Investigation of Land-Use Dynamics in Moscow Region, Russia: N.A. Marchenko and V.A. Nizovtcev

Part 5: Land-Use Management and Policy in Different Regions
. Ecological Networking as a Tool for Land-Use Management: Ruslan Butovsky et al.
. Climatic and Political Factors in Agricultural Performance of Russia: Andrey Kirilenko and Nikolai Dronin
. Soda Saline Soil Improvement and Agricultural Sustainable Development in Daan City, Jilin Province, China: Lu Qi et al.