Rethinking global land use in an urban era /

Rethinking global land use in an urban era /

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Imprint:Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Strüngmann forum reports
Strüngmann Forum reports.
Subject:
Land use.
Urbanization.
Sustainable development.
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism.
Land use.
Sustainable development.
Urbanization.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014941
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Other authors / contributors:Seto, Karen C., editor.
Reenberg, Anette, editor.
ISBN:9780262322126
0262322129
1306531586
9781306531580
9780262026901
0262026902
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.
Other form:Print version: Seto, Karen C. Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press 2014 1306531586
Table of Contents:
  • The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1 Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era: An Introduction
  • Land-Use Competition
  • 2 Trends in Global Land-Use Competition
  • 3 Food Production and Land Use
  • 4 Finite Land Resources and Competition
  • 5 Land-Use Competition between Food Production and Urban Expansion in China
  • Distal Land Connections
  • 6 Globalization, Economic Flows, and Land-Use Transitions
  • 7 Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science
  • 8 Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change
  • 9 Palm Oil as a Case Study of Distal Land Connections
  • Decision Making, Governance, and Institutions
  • 10 Emergent Global Land Governance
  • 11 Large-Scale Land Transactions: Actors, Agency, Interactions
  • 12 Private Market-Based Regulations: What They Are, and What They Mean for Land-Use Governance
  • 13 Changes in Land-Use Governance in an Urban Era
  • Urbanization and Land Use
  • 14 Range of Contemporary Urban Patterns and Processes
  • 15 How Is Urban Land Use Unique?
  • 16 Reconceptualizing Land for Sustainable Urbanity
  • Looking Forward
  • 17 Ways Forward to Explore Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing World
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index.

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