This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland.
Chapter 1. Overview of the Chinese History during the Past 300 Years.- Chapter 2. Review on China’s Spatially-explicit Historical Land Cover Datasets and Reconstruction Methods.- Chapter 3. Study Area and Data Source.- Chapter 4. The Spatial-temporal Pattern of Population Changes in China in the Past 300 Years.- Chapter 5. Farmland Dataset Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China.- Chapter 6. Reconstruction Spatial-temporal Pattern of Historical Farmland Based on Bottom-up Methodology.- Chapter 7. Farmland Spatial Pattern Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China.- Chapter 8. Conclusions and Research Prospects.