Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-89114-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Historical Geography and Geosciences

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 Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland.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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jin, Xiaobin

Cheng, Yinong

Zhou, Yinkang

Yang, Xuhong

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.