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Environment and marginality in geographical space : issues of land use, territorial marginalization and development in the new millennium / edited by Roser Majoral, Heikki Jussila, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidão.

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Environment and marginality in geographical space : issues of land use, territorial marginalization and development in the new millennium / edited by Roser Majoral, Heikki Jussila, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidão.
Publication
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Jussila, Heikki
  • Majoral i Moliné, Roser.
  • Cravidão, Fernanda Delgado.
  • International Geographical Union
Description
xix, 289 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Dynamics of marginal and critical regions
Uniform Title
Dynamics of marginal and critical regions.
Subject
  • Land use
  • Marginal productivity
  • Sustainable development
  • Agriculturally marginal lands
Genre/Form
Lissabon (1998)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral -- Land Use and Environment -- Land use and abuse: On the ecological and spiritual marginalization of land / Walter Leimgruber -- Trajectories of change in marginal and critical regions in Southeast Asia and Southern China / R.D. Hill -- Economic scenario of the reclamation and utilisation of marginal lands in India / Abha Lakshmi Singh -- The problem of decision areas within a fragile ecosystem: Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina / Gladys Molina de Buono -- Agro-industrial enterprises and environmental fragility / Maria Josefina Gutierrez de Manchon, Maria Estela Furlani de Civit -- A place in globalization: Land use in the Argentinean Pampa / Stella Maris Shmite de Castell -- The globalization impact on a marginal agricultural area / Gladys Mabel Tourn -- Transforming the fringe: Tobacco-related wood usage and its environmental implications / Helmut Geist -- Territorial Marginalization -- The concept of territorial marginality: A reflection from the standpoint of the geographic image of Portugal at the end of the 20th Century / Joao Luis Fernandes -- Territorial positionament of a peripheral region in the Atlantic Arch, Galicia (Spain) / Maria Jose Pineira Mantinan, Roman Rodriguez Gonzalez -- Reality and perception of marginality: The case of rural Catalonia / Marti Cors -- Territorial marginalization: Regional borders and globalization, some examples from Spain / Hugo Capella, Jaume Font-Garolera.
ISBN
0754614778
LCCN
^^^00133532^
OCLC
44152961
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library