Land use/cover change in central Tibet, c . 1830–1990
Devising a GIS methodology to study a historical Tibetan land decree
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9850195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl Ryavec (0000-0002-5691-2135, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 167 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 342-357 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1475-4959.00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2017265051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this study, historical Tibetan tax‐related data pertaining to cultivated land in central Tibet are studied by means of GIS and compared with contemporary patterns. A Tibetan land decree from 1830 contains aggregated data on the amount of land‐based tax units for estates in 57 districts of central Tibet. The purpose of this study is to devise a GIS methodology to study the potential utility of these data for historical geographical research, and to determine the approximate changes in cultivated land areas between 1830 and 1990. Traditional Tibetan tax data are significant for current efforts to construct historical land cover databases of the Tibetan Plateau region for the study of the human dimensions of global change
Agriculture · Archaeology · Decree · Geography · Land cover · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Physical geography · Plateau (mathematics · Regional science · Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2009 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |