Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zuozhi ◽  
Gu Hongyi ◽  
Dai Yangben ◽  
Wu Xuande ◽  
John A. Dearing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Anhui Province ◽  
Ming And Qing Dynasties

Deferring Crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Land Use Practices ◽  
Ecological Regime

This chapter explores the ecological regime of slavery and the land-use practices employed by farmers across the antebellum South. Despite the diverse ecologies and crop regimes of the region, most southern farmers employed a set of extensive agricultural techniques that kept the cost of farming down and helped circumvent natural limits on crop production and stock-raising. The use of shifting cultivation, free-range animal husbandry, and slaves to perform erosion control masked the environmental impacts of farmers’ actions, at least temporarily. Debates over westward expansion during the sectional crisis of the 1850s were not just about the extension of slavery, they also reflected practical concerns regarding access to new lands and fresh soil. Both were necessary for the continued profitability of farming in the South.

Indicators for assessing the environmental impacts of land use change across Europe

2008 ◽  
pp. 305-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Petit ◽  
Finn P. Vinther ◽  
Pieter J. Verkerk ◽  
Les G. Firbank ◽  
Niels Halberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Environmental Impacts
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