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impacts in Haryana, Guangdong Province, and Florida—and out-migrants send home remittances, and in some cases investment capital and knowhow, to bolster income and support investments in the land—a big factor in Kerala and the Jitai Basin. External markets in goods, workers, technologies, and capital have great impacts on land use in all the study regions and provide an external link between consumption and land status that is, in many cases, stronger than the internal one. Each study region is linked to external markets that serve as a supplier of food and other imported products, purchase exported products of the region, and act as a source of the capital and human resources.

Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 offer a comparative analysis of the six case studies. Chapter 2 on population compares the characteristics of population growth in the study areas with worldwide trends and relates them to current theoretical models. Chapter 3 describes the land use patterns in the study regions and relates the patterns to population change in the regions by land use type. The conjoined findings are presented in Chapter 4.