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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812478603321

Titolo

Population and land use in developing countries [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Carole L. Jolly and Barbara Boyle Torrey, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-19644-0

9786610196449

0-309-58523-6

0-585-14345-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PrestonSamuel H

JollyCarole L

TorreyBarbara Boyle

Disciplina

333.0091724

Soggetti

Land use - Developing countries

Developing countries Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Committee chairman: Samuel H. Preston.

"...report summarizes the discussions and papers presented at a Committee...workshop."--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Population and Land Use in Developing Countries""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""WHY THIS IS A DIFFICULT QUESTION TO ANSWER""; ""THE INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF POPULATION GROWTH AND LAND USE CHANGE""; ""WORKSHOP PAPERS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Population, Land Use, and Environment: A Long History""; ""NATURAL PROCESSES AND ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS""; ""HISTORICAL CHANGES IN HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON THE LAND""; ""OFF-SITE EFFECTS OF LAND CHANGES""; ""SOME GENERALIZATIONS FROM THE PAST""; ""THE PAST AND THE FUTURE""; ""REFERENCES""

""3 What Is Meant by Land Use Change? """"LANDSCAPE STABILITY""; ""MEASUREMENT OF LAND USE CHANGE BY REMOTE SENSING""; ""Interpretation of Remote Sensing Data""; ""Computer-Assisted



Interpretation""; ""Use of Remote-Sensing Data""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 An Ecological Perspective on Population Change and Land Use ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Northern Nigeria: Land Transformation Under Agricultural Intensification""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Objectives""; ""THE STUDY AREA""; ""Methods""; ""POPULATION CHANGES""; ""The High-Density Case""; ""THE LOW-DENSITY CASE""

""The Demographic Basis of Intensification""""LAND USE CHANGE""; ""The High-Density Case""; ""The Low-Density Case""; ""Land Use Change and Population Growth""; ""LAND INVESTMENT""; ""Introduction""; ""Soil and Water Conservation Structures""; ""Irrigation""; ""Enclosures""; ""Fertilization""; ""Trees""; ""Investment and Population Growth""; ""SOIL MANAGEMENT""; ""Soil Physical Properties""; ""Soil Chemical Properties""; ""Comparison of Cultivated with Uncultivated Soils""; ""Fertilization""; ""Soil Management and Population Density""; ""FARM TREES""; ""The High-Density Area""

""The Low-Density Area""""Farm Trees and Population Density""; ""DEMOGRAPHIC VERSUS NONDEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 India: Population Pressure, Technology, Infrastructure, Capital Formation, and Rural Incomes""; ""ANALYTIC ISSUES""; ""A Simple One-Region Model""; ""An Extension to Two Regions""; ""An Extension to Three Regions""; ""EMPIRICAL TESTS: AN APPLICATION TO INDIA""; ""Variable Definitions and Means-Stage I""; ""Variable Definitions and Means-Stage II""; ""Stage I Estimates""; ""Stage II Reduced Form, Income Determinant Estimates""

""Real Labor Income Effects""""Land Income Effects""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""APPENDIX A: AN ANALYTIC MODEL OF POPULATION AND TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS ON EARNINGS""; ""A SIMPLE, SINGLE-REGION MODEL""; ""AN EXTENSION TO TWO REGIONS""; ""APPENDIX B: DATA TABLES""; ""7 Mauritius: Population and Land Use""; ""REFERENCES""; ""8 Honduras: Population, Inequality, and Resource Destruction""; ""HONDURAS: AN OVERVIEW""; ""THE POPULATION SITUATION""; ""CHANGING LAND USE PATTERNS IN THE SOUTH""; ""The Cotton Boom""; ""The Cattle Boom""; ""Cantaloupe and Shrimp""; ""Summary""; ""SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE""

""POPULATION GROWTH AND LAND USE CHANGES""