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Our Earth's Changing Land
An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change [Two Volumes]
 Helmut Geist

0-313-32704-1/978-0-313-32704-9

Description
This encyclopedia provides a state-of-the-art understanding of how land has changed over that last 300 years.

Reviews:
-Land-use conversion is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. This authoritative set addresses all aspects of the science of land-use change and is appropriate for upper-level high school students on up. —Library Journal
-[C]ould be placed in either reference or circulation collections. It addresses topics of increased interest and importance in a timely and thorough fashion. Informed by recent scholarship, this work should answer specific questions, as well as provide stimulation for further inquiry. —Against the Grain
-This book is a model of how a reference book should be produced... Universities, government and non-government organizations and others concerned with land use will find this book a very good guide to the study and understanding of land use change. —Reference Reviews
-Written for scientists and educated lay-people in a style that is accessible to high school and college students, this comprehensive set covers key terms and topics of land-use change. —VOYA
-Chapters survey not just land use patterns past, present and future, but draw important connections between changing human needs, changing earth conditions, and what scientists and organizations studying these trends predict for the future. Add discussions of the politics and economics involved and you have a hard-hitting 2-volume set perfect for college-level collections offering resources on environmental or land use issues alike. —Midwest Book Review - Internet Bookwatch
-Created with support from the Interational Geographical Union's Commission on Land Use/Cover Change (IGU-LUCC), this set provides an overview on land change as a forcing function in global environmental change....The work would be a useful reference tool for undergraduates as well as for scientists and educated laypeople who are interested in broadening their knowledge of land change. Although there are many encyclopedias on the environment, there is little devoted solely to land use. This comprehensive resource fills a gap and is recommended for academic and large public libraries. —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
About the Author
Helmut Geist is professor of human-environment interactions at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, United Kingdom. From 2000 until 2005 he was executive director of the IGBP-IHDP Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project at LUCC's International Project Office at the University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His research interests include political ecology, sustainable land use, land-change theory, and human-driven environmental changes such as land degradation, deforestation, desertification, and urbanization. Based at universities the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and the United States, he was in involved in the World Bank's Human Development Network on tobacco control (1998), in reviews of the European Commission's desertification research (2003), and in the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2004).
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