Land Use Surveys
Land Use Surveys
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土地利用调查
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1975
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通讯作者:
A. Vink
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A. Vink
Within the context of this book, the term “land use survey” includes all those surveys used to register the different aspects of land use as they exist at the moment of survey. Land use surveys are therefore “surveys of present land use”. As in all surveys, the contents of such a survey depends on the scale of the map, the special purpose of the survey and the nature of the region. All of these factors are additionally elaborated by persons who have their own special knowledge and preferences, their “reference level” (Vink, 1970 a). Most land use surveys are made primarily to register the occurrence of crops in their more or less regular geographical distribution. The “World Land Use Survey”, initiated by the late Sir Dudley Stamp under the auspices of the International Geographical Union, is a typical example of a general land use survey (Stamp, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1961 a). Other comparable crop surveys have been carried out in different countries. They all reflect to some extent the ecological conditions under which the crops are grown, but the past and present economic conditions of the area have equally had their impact on present land use, as was discussed in Chapter 1. A special kind of survey is the “soil use survey” in which the quantity of crops grown is compared statistically with the types of soils in a given area. “Crop disease surveys”, in which particular crops are investigated for the nature and geographical distribution of diseases and other kinds of crop damage, are of major interest today. In other cases, one particular crop is surveyed to obtain an inventory of its present or future production under the existing management conditions