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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.A propos de l’auteur
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 Geo Journal: An International Journal of Geography
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 274 ● ISBN 9780387788647 ● Taille du fichier 4.8 MB ● Éditeur Andrew Millington & Wendy Jepson ● Maison d’édition Springer US ● Lieu NY ● Publié 2008 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2146286 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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