Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstructs the spatiotemporal pattern of historical land use in China from 1661 - 1980

Delivers insights on characteristics of historical land-use changes including cropland, forest, rural and urban land

Provides a comprehensive overview of land-use data set reconstruction methods

Integrates effectively historical land-use data from all available sources

Inhalt
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.