HR: 1340
AN: B43H-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Rates And Patterns Of Historical Land-use Change: Lessons For Modeling The Future
AU: * Ramankutty, N
EM: navin.ramankutty@mcgill.ca
AF: McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A2K6, Canada
AB: Several recent studies have reconstructed historical changes in global land cover over the last 300 years. These data describe the broad general patterns of human settlement and economic development in different regions of the world. They also lend support to the notion of land-use transitions, from frontier forest clearing, to extensive agriculture, to intensive agriculture, and finally to urbanization and conservation. What lessons can be drawn from a knowledge of these past land-use changes and their drivers? What are their implications for modeling future land-use change? This talk will provide an overview of the major historical land-use changes over the last 300 years and their implications for our ability to model the future.
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE
DE: 1632 Land cover change
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting