Growing populations, changing landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : studies from India, China, and the United States / / Indian National Science Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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Growing populations, changing landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : studies from India, China, and the United States / / Indian National Science Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.73/095 |
| Soggetto topico: | Land use - India |
| Land use - China | |
| Land use - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Population Case studies |
| China Population Case studies | |
| United States Population Case studies | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "This study was supported by Grant No. 95-31825A-POP/PCE and 96-41812A-WER between the National Academy of Sciences and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Task Order #34, NO1-OD-4139 of the Dept. of Health and Human Services"--T.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""GROWING POPULATIONS, CHANGING LANDSCAPES""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""STUDY REGIONS""; ""PROJECT DESIGN AND FINDINGS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART I Population and Land Use in India, China, and the United States: Context, Observations, and Findings""; ""1 Introduction to the Tri-Academy Project""; ""ORIGIN OF THE STUDY""; ""RESEARCH OBJECTIVES""; ""THE STUDY REGIONS""; ""PROJECT STRUCTURE""; ""DESCRIPTIVE FRAMEWORK""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Elements of Population Growth""; ""POPULATION AND LAND AREA"" |
| ""CHANGES IN DENSITY AND POPULATION""""THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND COMPONENTS OF POPULATION CHANGE""; ""Age Structure and Age-Specific Vital Rates""; ""Spatial Redistribution""; ""THE ORETICAL BACKGROUND AND STUDY FINDINGS""; ""People as Consumers and Producers""; ""Study Findings""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Land Use Change in Space and Time""; ""LAND USE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME""; ""PATTERNS OF LAND USE CHANGE""; ""1. Are Less Intensively Managed Lands Declining?""; ""2. What Is the Pattern of Change in Agricultural Land?"" | |
| ""3. What Is the Dynamic of Change for Subsistence and Market Crops?""""4. What Has Happened to Built-up Areas?""; ""PROCESSES OF CHANGE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Findings and Observations of the Tri-Academy Project""; ""RESEARCH QUESTIONS""; ""Government Policy""; ""Globalization and Migration""; ""FINDINGS""; ""BEYOND THE CASE STUDIES""; ""REFERENCE""; ""PART II India""; ""Indian Case Studies: An Introduction""; ""KERALA""; ""HARYANA""; ""5 Population and Land Use in Kerala""; ""GEOGRAPHY, SOILS, AND CLIMATE""; ""DEMOGRAPHY""; ""Fertility and Mortality Rates""; ""Urban Growth""; ""Migration"" | |
| ""SOCIAL STRUCTURE""""ECONOMIC STRUCTURE""; ""CHANGES IN LAND USE""; ""Shifts in Cropping Patterns""; ""Migration and Land Use Change""; ""Travancore�Malabar Migration""; ""Highland Migration""; ""Deforestation""; ""Urbanization""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES""; ""Water Pollution""; ""Policies and Regulations""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 Population and Land Use in Haryana""; ""HARYANA: A DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE""; ""Population""; ""Migration, Land Availability, and Urbanization""; ""CHANGES IN LAND USE""; ""Agricultural Development of Haryana since 1950: Five Phases"" | |
| ""State-level Analysis""""Cropping Patterns""; ""Effects of the Green Revolution on the Arid and Semiarid Regions""; ""WATER RESOURCES""; ""Declining Water Table""; ""Waterlogging and Salinization""; ""Water Table Dynamics""; ""Water Resource Policies""; ""SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS""; ""Economic Indicators""; ""Changes in Household Consumption""; ""Trends in Livestock""; ""Social Welfare""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Gender Dimensions of the Relationship Between Population and Land Use in the Indian States of Kerala and Haryana"" | |
| ""A FRAMEWORK FOR AND HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE GENDER DIMENSION OF THE POPULATION�LAND USE RELATIONSHIP IN INDIA"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Growing populations, changing landscapes |
| ISBN: | 1-280-18463-9 |
| 9786610184637 | |
| 0-309-57018-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456164503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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