Temporal and Spatial Structure of Land Use Change in Asia

Abstract

On Asian countries facing a recent drastic change, the characteristics of land use change since 1970s was discussed on the basis of inter annual survey on land use data. Description of statistical relationships between land use and several kinds of factor in the field of sociology, economy and nature was attempted. In south Asia, the ratio of agricultural land use increased in proportion to a growth ofpopulation density, while in Taiwan and Korea, its ratio was decreasing in regions with high population density. There seemed to be a difference of economical developing stage and structure of food supply between these two groups of country.