Table of Contents

Introduction
What does land use change mean?
Chapter 1
1. Global Land Use Change
This unit introduces the topic of Land Use and Land Use Change and includes a global overview of how land use change becomes noticeable in a variety of ways.
Chapter 2
2. Urbanisation
The unit Urbanisation at first takes a look at the global population growth. After defining some important terms, it deals with reasons for urbanisation. Consequences of urbanisation for industrial and devoloping countries will be discussed, as well as proposed solutions for sustainable development.
Chapter 3
3. Syndromes of Global Change
This chapter focuses on exemplary topics of syndromes of global change:
Chapter 6
4. Mass tourism
The unit Mass Tourism deals at first with the case study of Tenerife. On the Canary Islands, land use change is visibly caused by mass tourism. Then, global aspects on ways to travel, and the historical development of mass tourism are analysed.
Additional Material
5. Additional Material
Additional material such as supplement pages and educational games can be found here.
References
6. References
A list of references of literature and data sources as well as suggestions for further reading.
Image credits
7. Image credits
A list of image credits and copyrights is given here.
Links
8. Links
A list of useful external links dealing with the topic (e.g. references, data sources, research projects, case studies)
Authors
9. Authors
A list of the authors who created the learning module on land use and land use change.
Worksheets
10. For teachers
A list of worksheets and related information for use in class.