Global environmental change and land use / edited by A.J. Dolman, A. Verhagen and C.A. Rovers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dolman, A. J.

Verhagen, A.

Rovers, C. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global environmental change.

Land use.

Physical Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

This book highlights one of the most important aspects of global change - the interaction of land use and the climate system. In separate chapters the book treats modelling of land-use patterns, the effects on climate, the effect of land use on the global carbon cycle, hydrological aspects of land use, aspects of climate change on food availability in West Africa, and the spatial requirements of bioenergy plantations. The current collection of chapters provides a unique, integrated treatment of land use in the context of global change.

Audience: This book should provide a stimulus for researchers and policy-makers alike to treat land use and land-use change in a multi-disciplinary manner.

Contents:

1 Land use and global environmental change / A.J. Dolman, A. Verhagen 3

1 Global environmental change 3

2 Understanding the driving forces of land use and land-use change 5

3 Changing the global biogeochemical cycles 7

4 Changing water availability and climate land use interactions 9

5 Agriculture and options for mitigating climate change 12

Part II Land-use and land-cover change: general concepts

2 Methodology for multi-scale land-use change modelling: concepts and challenges / P.H. Verburg, W.T. de Groot, A.J. Veldkamp 17

2 Multi-scale driving factors of land-use change 18

3 Research approaches in land-use studies 21

3.1 Micro-level analysis 22

3.2 Macro level analysis 23

3.3 Multi scale analysis 24

4 Modelling of land-use change 26

4.1 Economic models of land-use change 27

4.2 Multi-agent models 28

4.3 Spatially explicit macro-models 29

5 Examples: two multi-scale research approaches 30

5.1 Multi-scale micro-level analysis: Action-in-Context 30

5.2 Multi-scale macro-level analysis: the conversion of land use and its effects 36

6 Discussion: applications of land-use change knowledge and challenges for future research 42

3 Global warming and the economics of land-use and of land-cover change / R.A. Groeneveld, G. Kruseman, E.C. van Ierland 53

2 Economic theoretical analyses of LUCC and climate change 54

2.1 The economic analysis framework of LUCC decisions 54

2.2 Economic analysis of LUCC and climate change 57

3 The policy context 61

3.1 Policies to mitigate climate change through land use 62

4 Case studies of LUCC and global warming 63

4.1 Technological development in Asian rice systems 63

4.2 Agroforestry in Mexico 65

Part III The relation between climate and land use

4 Land cover and the climate system / R.W.A. Hutjes, P. Kabat, A.J. Dolman 73

2 Desertification in the Sahel 79

2.1 The drought of the last three decades 80

2.2 Land atmosphere interactions in the Sahel 80

3 Deforestation of the Amazon 89

3.1 Modelling land atmosphere interactions in the Amazon 94

5 Land use and terrestrial carbon sinks / A.J. Dolman, G.J. Nabuurs, P.K. Kuikman, R.W.A. Hutjes, J. Huygen, A. Verhagen, L.M. Vleeshouwers 111

1 Introduction: the global carbon cycle 111

2 How to estimate the CO[subscript 2] uptake of the land? 113

3 Forest inventories 115

4 Flux measurements 117

5 Inversion based estimates 119

6 Forward modelling 120

7 Interannual variability 123

8 CO[subscript 2] uptake of non-forest and agricultural land 126

9 A preliminary Carbon Inventory for Europe 129

Part IV Impact, adaptation and mitigation

6 Land-use change, climate and hydrology / E.J. Moors, A.J. Dolman 139

2 Precipitation 143

2.1 Deforestation effects 144

2.2 Reforestation effects 145

3 Evaporation 146

3.1 Potential evapotranspiration 148

3.2 Interception loss 149

4 Runoff 150

4.1 Floods 151

4.2 Low flows 153

4.3 Change in water yield due to land-cover change 154

4.4 Change in peakflows due to land-cover change 157

5 Soil water 157

6 Implications for the regional and global scale 158

7 Climate change and food security in the drylands of West Africa / A. Verhagen, A.J. Dietz, R. Ruben, H. van Dijk, A. de Jong, F. Zaal, M. de Bruijn, H. van Keulen 167

2 Climate change and food security 169

3 Food security and sustainable livelihood strategies 170

4 Biophysical responses to a changing climate 171

4.1 Drought Index 172

4.2 Modelling approach 173

5 People's responses to a changing environment 176

5.1 Portfolio options 177

5.2 Pathways 181

8 Land-use changes induced by increased use of renewable energy sources / S. Nonhebel 187

2 The past and present of the energy system 188

2.1 Present use of solar radiation 192

2.2 Solar energy as a renewable energy source in a modern society 193

3 Land requirements for energy generation purposes 195

4 Potentials of PV and biomass in near future 196

4.1 Photovoltaic systems 196

4.2 Biomass 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402013469

OCLC:

52092041