**Meet the editor**

Luís Loures is a Landscape Architect and Agronomic Engineer, who holds a PhD in Planning and a Post-Doc in Agronomy. Since graduating, he has published several peer-reviewed papers and been a guest researcher and lecturer both at Michigan State University (USA) and the University of Toronto (Canada) where he has developed part of his Ph.D. research with the financial support

from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Ph.D. grant). During his academic career, he has taught different courses at several Universities, mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning, and sustainability. Currently, he is a researcher at VALORIZA, Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization - Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Luis Carlos Loures

Luís Loures

**Experience 53** Nararuk Boonyanam

**Commodities 73**

Werner J. Zollitsch

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Land-Use Planning and Land-Use Change**

**as Catalysts of Sustainable Development 3**

**Section 2 Land-Use Change Modelling and Monitoring Processes 13**

Chapter 2 **Dynamics of the Land Use Changes and the Associated Barriers**

Chapter 3 **Effects of Agricultural Land Use on the Ecohydrology of Small-**

**Study in the South of Portugal 29**

Chapter 4 **Agricultural Zoning and Policy Conflict: Thailand's**

Chapter 5 **Consequences from Land Use and Indirect/Direct Land Use Change for CO2 Emissions Related to Agricultural**

**Medium Mediterranean River Basins: Insights from a Case**

Paula Matono, Teresa Batista, Elsa Sampaio and Maria Ilhéu

Stefan J. Hörtenhuber, Michaela C. Theurl, Gerhard Piringer and

**and Opportunities for Sustainable Development on Peripheral and Insular Territories: The Madeira Island (Portugal) 15** Rui Alexandre Castanho, Sérgio Lousada, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Patrícia Escórcio, José Cabezas, Luis Fernández-Pozo and

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
