Exploring Sustainable Land Use in Monsoon Asia

Description

This book presents the outcome of the Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (SLUAS) project, which was the pilot undertaking for development in a series of projects on land use. Monsoon Asia, with its huge and still increasing population and rapid socioeconomic changes, is regarded as a major hot spot of global change in general and of land use change in particular. The major issues include urbanization, rural development, land-related problems such as food problems, and disasters in the context of global change and sustainability. Future Earth, the new international research framework established by International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and other international academic or funding organizations for a sustainable world, has chosen the Global Land Project (GLP) as one of the first such international projects it has endorsed that originated from International Geosphere/Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and/or International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). This endorsement is a clear indication of the importance of the issues related to land use and its changes. Land use change is an essential driving force of environmental change, a result of socioeconomic and environmental changes, and is a major environmental change itself. Because of this complex and multifaceted nature and the difficulties in obtaining relevant data with historical depth, this phenomenon has not been studied fully in the context of global change or sustainability. It is hoped that this book is of use to those who are concerned about the present and future land use in the world. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (Yukio Himiyama)....Pages 3-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Urbanization in Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province in China Since ca. 1930 (Yukio Himiyama, Miho Ikeshita, Tetsuya Shinde)....Pages 15-32 Reorganization of Suburban Areas in Terms of Real Estate Utilization and Transformation of Evicted Farmers (Zengmin JI)....Pages 33-56 Economic Development and Land Use Changes in an Inland Area of China: A Case Study of Gansu Province (Haruhiro Doi, Yanwei Chai)....Pages 57-81 The Change of the Traditional Urbanization and Its Future Development Focus in China (Qi Lu)....Pages 83-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Landuse Sustainability of Agricultural Zones (Arun Das, Koichi Kimoto, M. Ravi Kumar, R. Umakanth, Dhritiraj Sengupta, H. R. Vishwanth)....Pages 103-135 Low Carbon Resilient Delhi Megacity for Sustainable Future Earth (R. B. Singh, Subhash Anand, Vidhi Saluja)....Pages 137-155 Dynamics of Land Use and Climate Change in Subhumid Region of Rajasthan, India (R. B. Singh, Ajay Kumar)....Pages 157-173 Urban Land Use Land Cover Change (Arun Das, Koichi Kimoto, K. Jabir, Dhritiraj Sengupta, B. S. Shriharsha, M. Ravikumar)....Pages 175-189 Population and Land Use in Semiarid Area—A Case of Karnataka, India (Koichi Kimoto)....Pages 191-201 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 Land Use Change in Tokyo Prefecture Viewed from the Medium Scale Topographic Maps (Yukio Himiyama, Tetsuya Fukase)....Pages 205-228 Flood Risk and Mitigation Under Changing Land Use (Shigeko Haruyama, Atsuko Suzuki)....Pages 229-243 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 Human Impacts on the Landcover Change of the Inle Watershed in Myanmar (Kay Thwe Hlaing, Shigeko Haruyama, Saw Yu May)....Pages 247-265 The Ecological Footprint and Carrying Capacity in Northeast Asia (Zhang Bai, Liu Weijie)....Pages 267-275 Land Use and Spatial Policy Conflicts in a Rich-Biodiversity Rain Forest Region: The Case of Jambi Province, Indonesia (Ernan Rustiadi, Baba Barus, Laode Syamsul Iman, Setyardi Pratika Mulya, Andrea Emma Pravitasari, Dedy Antony)....Pages 277-296