Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 138 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-71878-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing historical land-use datasets while addresses accuracy evaluation issues. Historical population size, its growth rate, and the evolution of spatial-temporal patterns of farmland in China have also been discussed. Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland. With a few principles and assumptions, a delicate Cellular Automaton (CA) and Multi-Agents (MAS) model based on bottom-up management scheme has been applied to derive the spatial-temporal distribution of farmland with the 1km*1km grid resolution for the period between 1661 and 1980 in China. Suggestions for future studies related to reconstructing historical land-use changes are then provided.

Chapter 1. Overview of the Chinese History during the Past 300 Years.- Chapter 2. Review on China's Spatially-explicit Historical Land Cover Datasets and Reconstruction Methods.- Chapter 3. Study Area and Data Source.- Chapter 4. The Spatial-temporal Pattern of Population Changes in China in the Past 300 Years.- Chapter 5. Farmland Dataset Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China.- Chapter 6. Reconstruction Spatial-temporal Pattern of Historical Farmland Based on Bottom-up Methodology.- Chapter 7. Farmland Spatial Pattern Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China.- Chapter 8. Conclusions and Research Prospects.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Historical Geography and Geosciences
Zusatzinfo	XI, 138 p. 60 illus., 49 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	547 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Schlagworte	Historic agriculture, forestry and urban planning • Historic agriculture, forestry and urban planning in China • Historical Geography • Historical land-use dataset management • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • Land-use reconstruction in China • Natural resource management in China • natural resources and energy economics • Spatiotemporal pattern of historical land use
ISBN-10	3-319-71878-9 / 3319718789
ISBN-13	978-3-319-71878-1 / 9783319718781
Zustand	Neuware