Research Catalog

Title

Rural planning from an environmental systems perspective / Frank B. Golley, editor, Juan Bellot, editor.

Publication

New York : Springer, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Golley, Frank B.
• Bellot, Juan.

Description

xii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.

Summary

• "This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology, and economics. It takes a systems perspective, incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis, and soil, water, and land planning.".
• "Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective is directed toward graduate students and professionals, providing a source of information and concepts for those concerned with land and water policies and practices. It presents an integrated approach using practical and applicable models and methods and takes a middle position between an elementary conceptual approach to land and water management and a highly mathematically advanced treatise based exclusively on system modeling."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Springer series in environmental management

Uniform Title

Springer series on environmental management.

Subjects

• Rural development > Environmental aspects
• Regional planning > Environmental aspects
• Land use, Rural > Planning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Planning As a Way of Achieving Sustainable Development / Frank B. Golley and Juan Bellot -- Pt. II. Bases for Resource Interpretation and Valuation in Land Planning. 2. Information Systems for Rural Planning / Arwyn Jones, Alan Belward and Marc Van Liedekerke. 3. Role of Land Surface Relief in Land Use Allocation / Francisco Pellicer Corellano. 4. Climate As a Factor in Regional Planning / Vernon Meentemeyer. 5. The Hydrological Cycle and the Role of Water in Mediterranean Environments / John B. Thornes. 6. Evaluation of Soils for Land Use Allocation / Ramon Vallejo -- Pt. III. Production Systems. 7. Habitat Conservation / Robert G. H. Bunce. 8. The Natural Systems: Potential Production and Forest Management / Carlos A. Gracia. 9. The Agricultural System: Potential Production and Environmental Consequences / Malcolm E. Sumner -- Pt. IV. The Human Use of Rural Space. 10. Human Organization in Rural Areas / Luisa M. Frutos.
• 11. Rural Development Engineering: Labourers of Development / Jose Luis Salinas -- Pt. V. Rural Economics and Economics of Natural Resources. 12. The Farm and Rural Community As Economic Systems / Felisa Cena. 13. Introduction to the Economics of Resource Use in Planning / Caroline Saunders and Martin Whitby. 14. Public Policies, Markets, and Externalities / Francois Bonnieux and Herve Guyomard -- Pt. VI. Systems and Land Planning Analysis. 15. Land Use Allocation and Environmental Impact Assessment in Land Planning / German Glaria and M. Angeles Cenal. 16. Systems Analysis As a Tool for Rural Planning / Wolf Dieter Grossmann and Juan Bellot. 17. Rural Planning: A Case Study / Juan Bellot, Frank B. Golley and M. Teresa Aguinaco.

ISBN

0387985190 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98015160

OCLC

• 38832556
• ocm38832556

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries