1. Zhen’s Story -- 2. Shun’s Story: Number One Daughter -- 3. Ze’s Story: Husband of First Daughter -- 4. Shi’s Story: Second Daughter -- 5. Hua’s Story: Third Daughter -- 6. Chun’s Story: First Son, Fourth Child -- 7. Xia’s Story: Second Son -- 8. Kai’s Story: Fourth Daughter --...

Part I: Introduction, Framework, Methods and Starting Points -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Linking long-term changes in socioecological systems with the development of property rights -- Chapter 3: Methods and staring points -- Chapter 4: Important variables -- Part II: Land Use,...

Long-Term Transition of Population and National Land System -- Transformation Processes of National Land Systems and Reconstruction Policy from a Spatial Economics Perspective -- Process of Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake with Pictures and Data -- Population Decline and Creative...

1 China’s Agriculture in the 1930s: An Overview -- 2 John Lossing Buck and Land Utilization in China -- 3 Calamities and Conflict Affecting Rural China 1929–1933 -- 4 The Discovery and Restoration of Buck’s Original Data -- 5 Reliability of John Lossing Buck’s Land Utilization Survey...

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science. By merging spatial analysis with quantitative analytical techniques in the Anthropocene, this book contributes to the multidisciplinary understanding of regional issues. The...

Chapter 1. Measuring the Demand for Land Under Sorting and Matching -- Chapter 2. Capitalization and Exclusionary Zoning -- Chapter 3. The Long-Run Impact of Zoning in U.S. Cities -- Chapter 4. Tracing the Effectiveness of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of Heritage Protection Measures,...

Preface -- Overview of Chapters -- Sustainable land management and the co-creation of knowledge -- Part 1 (State and drivers) -- Land use change in Europe (Overview) -- Energy demand and land use change -- New economic drivers for land use change -- Demographic change and land use change --...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Diversity and country performance -- Chapter 2. Regional opportunities in southern Europe -- Chapter 3. Landscape and Heritage in southern Europe -- Chapter 4. Analytical tools from a socioeconomic point of view -- Chapter 5. Mapping Behavioral patterns -- Chapter 6....

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...