Book
Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods
(2017)
Abstract
The papers in this volume were inspired by lively discussions regarding relationships between smallholder livelihoods and land-use land-cover change (LULCC) at the Land System Science Symposium (LSSS) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Chicago (2015). Those engaging discussions at the LSSS, along with our own research interests at the time, led naturally to the development of a Special Issue on the place of smallholders today, their changing land use and changing livelihoods. This edited volume has benefited from our own related research (and vice versa) funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) research grants (1266381 and 1056811). The editors thank Andrew Millington, the Academic Editor-in-Chief of Land, for his patience and support during this long process. We also thank Elvis Wang, the Managing Editor for Land, as well as the other countless very helpful support staff at MDPI. We are grateful for the collegiality of the contributors, as well as the many helpful reviewers, whose comments greatly improved the quality of the Special Issue. B.L. Turner II was especially helpful at various stages along the way. Lastly, we thank smallholders and farmers everywhere for sharing their time and knowledge with us. Without their generosity and support there would be no Special Issue. We hope in these pages you will see the continued importance of smallholders today to human–environment studies and to the wellbeing of humans and their land systems.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Claudia A. Radel and Jacqueline M. Vadjunec
Publisher
Land
Citation Information
Claudia Radel. Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods. (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/claudia_radel/64/