THE INTEGRATION OF GIS AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: THE INTEGRATION OF GIS AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: KAVARAN LAND USE CHANGE AND POPULATION GROWTH
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Weng, Pei-Wen
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Recent population studies often regard population count as basic data, hence often do not spend too much time writing on these data. However, past data are often inaccurate, historical population has become an interesting research topic. With the China tradition idea of “the more descendants, the more auspices”, the population growth will close to Carrying Capacity. Then we can follow the concept of Carrying Capacity and use the area of dry farmland and paddy field to explain the trend of population growth. But when these lands were transformed into use of cultivation was not recorded, this method is not so working to prove Taiwan census data in Ching Dynasty. Fortunately, with the help of GIS, we can rebuild the land use data from 1796 to 1895 and calculate the Carrying Capacity by determining the area of aboriginal lands, dry farmlands and paddy fields. After comparing the calculated Carrying Capacity with the population census data of the Ching Dynasty, it was found that the two are not far off in the greater part. Some differences are because natural increase requires some lag time for population growth to reach Carrying Capacity.
Subjects
空間重構
土地利用變遷
歷史人口
spatial reconstruction
land use change
history population
SDGs
Type
thesis
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