Beschreibung:
This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world's largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA. As part of the Siberian virgin land policy, the Kulunda steppe was transformed into agricultural land from 1954 to 1965.
Foreword.- Chapter 1: Background to the natural landscape and the consequences of the ecosystem conversion.- Chapter 2: Socio-economic and institutional drivers and impacts of land use change.- Chapter 3: Potentials and Strategies of adapted land use as basis for ecological and social-economic sustainable development of the rural landscape.- Chapter 4: Change in Regional Development.- Chapter 5: Summary and outlook.- Acknowledgement.