Land use, land-use change, and forestry / Mark P. McHenry, Surendra N. Kulshreshtha, Silvia Lac, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McHenry, Mark P., editor.

Kulshreshtha, Surendra N., editor.

Lac, Silvia, editor.

Series:

Environmental research advances series.

Environmental Research Advances

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest ecology.

Agricultural ecology.

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry includes research from selected international authors and institutions that consider land use management to be an important aspect in the context of climate change and development. Our team of editors and authors hope to add a valuable contribution to the literature to address global climate change in relation to agricultural-forestry ecosystems and development in vulnerable locations. Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry book chapters include a wide variety of topics on changes in land use practices, carbon sequestration, forest degradation, as well as polices that affect land use and development. It also includes a description of the current state of land use, land-use change and forestry in South Asian countries (Chapter 1); an evaluation of biodiversity and peoples' willingness to pay (Chapter 2); modelling of carbon sequestration in forests (Chapter 3); trade-off analysis in economic and environmental objectives (Chapter 4); use of radar imagery in detecting forest degradation (Chapter 5); assessment of carbon sequestration in woodlots (Chapter 6); solutions for improved survival of ruminants in arid and semi-arid environments and associated carbon sequestration (Chapter 7); policy interventions for land use changes (Chapter 8); accomplishing land use change from subsistence to commercial farming in Mozambique (Chapter 9); and an international and multi-sectoral approach for partnering to achieve positive agricultural developmental land use change (Chapter 10). Our team of editors, reviewers, and authors are honored to be part of this project; truly an example of international cooperation and articulation within the climate change community. The chapters and authors of Land Use, Land-Use and Forestry were carefully selected through a rigorous peer review process considering publication records, relevant and high quality contributions to this topic, and priming international cooperation. For this book and its contents, the intended audience includes the international climate change community including: contributors to the UNFCCC-IPCC process, policymakers, consultants, project developers, researchers and their institutions. Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry aims to be a valuable addition to multidisciplinary and international cooperation efforts (policies, cultural practices, new technologies, and adaptation measures), to development of land use policies, governmental and nongovernmental agencies worldwide and the general public. The editors of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry believe the book is an effective tool to help the international community progress in understanding and management of land use changes in addressing climate change through international collaboration and cooperation.

Contents:

LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY ; LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 STATE OF LAND USE, LAND USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY IN SOUTH ASIA ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMY ; TRENDS IN GHG EMISSIONS IN SOUTH ASIA ; LULUCF IN SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES ; POLICIES TOWARDS OFFSETTING AND REDUCING EMISSIONS ; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2 EVALUATING BIODIVERSITY VALUES WITH CHOICE EXPERIMENTS: AN APPLICATION IN THE MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION

METHODOLOGY STUDY AREA AND QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN ; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3 CARBON SEQUESTRATION MODEL USING STELLA® FOR A FOREST ECOSYSTEM IN TYROL (AUSTRIA) ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; STUDY AREA; STELLA® 10.0 SIMULATIONS AND THE BIOMASS MODEL ; SOIL CARBON MODEL; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4 CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN AGRICULTURAL SOILS: AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC- ENVIRONMENTAL TRADE-OFF ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; TILLAGE SYSTEMS AND SOIL ORGANIC MATTER ; ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF TILLAGE SYSTEMS

EMPIRICAL RESULTS TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS ; INCORPORATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE ; SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 5 THE POTENTIAL OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGERY IN AUTOMATED DETECTION OF FOREST DEGRADATION FEATURES USING VISUAL AND SEMI-AUTOMATED ANALYSES ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; FOREST CHANGE IMAGING RESEARCH ; STUDY AREA; RESEARCH DATA ; RESEARCH METHODS ; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF LOGGING ROADS AND CLEARCUTS ; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ; AUTOMATED SAR DETECTION OF LOGGING ROADS AND CLEARCUTS; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES

Chapter 6 ABOVE AND BELOW-GROUND CARBON STORAGE AND SEQUESTRATION IN ACACIA FALLOWS OF NGITIRI AND ROTATIONAL WOODLOTS IN MEATU, TANZANIA ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; MATERIALS AND METHODS ; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES ; Chapter 7 IMPROVED ARID/SEMI-ARID RUMINANT SURVIVAL FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SUB-SAHARAN PASTORALISTS: BIOCHAR/HIGH-TANNIN FODDER, BIOENERGY, AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; PASTORAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SSA ; HOW ACACIAS ARE USED WITHIN PASTORAL SYSTEMS

BIOCHAR APPLICATION ASSUMPTIONS, RESULTS, AND DISCUSSION CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 8 ENABLING LANDSCAPE INTERVENTIONS: CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAMS - THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA AND ZAMBIA ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION: CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND LANDSCAPE-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS ; INSTITUTIONAL, POLICY, AND FINANCING CHALLENGES TO LANDSCAPE APPROACHES ; ETHIOPIA CASE STUDY ; The Oromia Forested Landscapes Program ; Opportunities and Challenges of the Oromia Forested Landscapes Program ; ZAMBIA CASE STUDY ; OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE ZAMBIAN PROGRAM ; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES

Chapter 9 LAND USE CHANGE FROM SUBSISTENCE TO COMMERCIAL FARMERS IN MOZAMBIQUE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63483-456-9