Leo van den Berg

• Retired at Wageningen University & Research

Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research, Report 164, 1998

This paper discusses the impacts of urbanization and of recent economic reforms on the livelihoods of farmers in Hanoi's peri-urban areas. Although the proportion of land used for agriculture is declining, agricultural production is intensifying-for instance, with pork, vegetables and fish production increasing and rice production decreasing. The p...

The development of high spatial resolution scanners in theory might lead to the inclusion of studies at the town quarter level or the village level. Such developments open the way to sub-regional and urban studies where the object of study has a size, smaller than a soccer field. It might enable us to monitor socio-economic components of study area...

Recent studies tend to indicate that no longer all presently agricultural land in The Netherlands is required for sustainable agricultural production. Apart from various urban uses and some projects turning agricultural land into nature reserves or giving it a secondary function, like national landscape parks or drinking water supply area, it is no...

Rural areas need to fulfil a large variety of functions and accommodate many activities such as agriculture, forestry, nature conservation, water resources development, outdoor recreation and many others. As a result, the quality of the rural environment as a whole is under pressure. These pressures are caused in particular by claims on space (e.g....

In future-oriented studies, scenario building and analysis are becoming increasingly fashionable. This apparent increase in popularity is, however, somewhat misleading: many studies in trend analysis, comparisons of static equilibria, variant analysis and sensitivity analysis are presented nowadays as scenario studies . We prefer to use the term ‘s...

Summary in Dutch. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1984. Bibliography: p. 154-162. Includes indexes.