Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes : Changing Agricultural Landscapes

Land use and land-cover change research over the past decade has focused mainly on contemporary primary land-cover conversions in the tropics and sub-tropics, with considerable resources dedicated to the explanation and prediction of tropical deforestation and often ignoring the dynamism in the world’s agro-pastoral landscapes. This collection integrates cutting-edge research in the social, biogeophysical, and geographical information sciences to understand the human and environmental dynamics that change the type, magnitude and location of land uses and land covers in the changing countryside. Our contributors are from across the globe and draw on diverse empirical pan-tropical case studies and disciplinary influences. The research reported examines land-use and land-cover change in Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, India, Malawi, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal and Thailand. Each chapter in this book advances one of three themes: (i) adaptations and change in settled agricultural zones, (ii) agricultural intensification, and (iii) markets and institutions. This book describes the monitoring of land-cover changes, explains the processes through which land is altered, and describes the development of spatially-explicit models to predict land change. This book illustrates how practitioners have integrated knowledge from the three scientific realms - social, biophysical, and GIScience - that underpin land-change science. The Changing Countryside / Wendy Jepson And Andrew Millington -- Stasis And Flux In Long-inhabited Locales: Change In Rural Andean Landscapes / Kenneth R. Young -- The Impact Of Climate Change On Income Diversification And Food Security In Senegal / Molly E. Brown -- Land-use Changes And Agricultural Growth In India And Pakistan / Takashi Kurosaki -- Agricultural Intensification On Brazil's Amazonian Soybean Frontier / Wendy Jepson, J. Christopher Brown, And Matthew Koeppe -- Coffee Production Intensification And Landscape Change In Colombia, 1970-2002 / Andres Guhl -- Plant Invasions In An Agricultural Frontier: Linking Satellite, Ecological, And Household Survey Data / Laura C. Schneider -- Shifting Ground Land Competition And Agricultural Change In Northern Cote D'ivoire / Thomas J. Bassett And Moussa Kone -- Village Settlement, Deforestation, And The Expansion Of Agriculture In A Frontier Region: Nang Rong, Thailand / Barbara Entwisle ... [et Al.] -- Market Integration And Market Realities On The Mexican Frontier: The Case Of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico / Eric Keys -- Frameworks For Farmland Afforestation In Rural China: An Assessment Of Household-based And Collective Management / Laura Ediger -- Cost-benefit Analysis Of Two Models Of Agroforestry Systems In Rhodonia, Brazil / Keila Aires -- Agricultural Land-use Trajectories In A Cocaine Source Region: Chapare, Bolivia / Andrew Bradley And Andrew Millington -- The Tobacco Industry In Malawi: A Globalized Driver Of Local Land Change / Helmut Geist, Marty Otanez, And John Kapito. Edited By Andrew Millington And Wendy Jepson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages 1-18 The Changing Countryside....Pages 1-10 Stasis and Flux in Long-Inhabited Locales: Change in Rural Andean Landscapes....Pages 11-32 The Impact of Climate Change on Income Diversification and Food Security in Senegal....Pages 33-52 Land-Use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India and Pakistan,1901-2004.....Pages 53-72 Agricultural Intensification on Brazil’s Amazonian Soybean Frontier....Pages 73-92 Coffee Production Intensification and Landscape Change in Colombia, 1970-2002....Pages 93-116 Plant Invasions in an Agricultural Frontier: Linking Satellite, Ecological and Household Survey Data....Pages 117-142 Shifting Ground Land Competition and Agricultural Change in Northern Cote d’ Ivoire....Pages 143-164 Village Settlement, Deforestation, and the Expansion of Agriculture in a Frontier Region: Nang Rong, Thailand....Pages 165-180 Market Integration and Market Realities on the Mexican Frontier:The Case of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico....Pages 181-200 Frameworks for Farmland Afforestation in Rural China: An Assessment of Household-based and Collective Management....Pages 201-214 Cost-benefit Analysis of Two Models of Agroforestry Systems in Rondônia, Brazil....Pages 215-230 Agricultural land-use trajectories in a cocaine source region:Chapare, Bolivia....Pages 231-250 The Tobacco Industry in Malawi: A Globalized Driver of Local Land Change....Pages 251-268 Back Matter....Pages 1-6 The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and invited contributions that cover important geographical and thematic issues not addressed at the meeting. In particular, there will be a balance between old agricultural regions (eg. Mediterranean, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Andes, Southern Africa, and upland Southeast Asia) and regions recently c