Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Final Frontiers

by Turner, B. L.; Geoghegan, Jacqueline; Foster, David R.

• ISBN13: 9780199245307
• ISBN10: 0199245304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This highly topical study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi- institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives committed to various international programs of forest preservation and complementary economic programs.

Table of Contents

List of Color Plates	xiii
List of Figures	xiv
List of Tables	xvii
The Editors	xix
The Contributors	xx
1. Three Frontiers of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region and SYPR Project	1	(22)
B.L. Turner II, David R. Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan
PART I. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT HISTORY IN THE SOUTHERN YUCATAN PENINSULAR REGION
2. The Long View: Human-Environment Relationships, 1000 BC-AD 1900	23	(16)
David R. Foster and B.L. Turner II
3. Forest Extraction to Theme Parks: The Modern History of Land Change	39	(24)
Peter Klepeis
PART II. LAND-COVER CHARACTERISTICS AND CHANGE
4. Forest Types and their Implications	63	(18)
Diego Pérez-Salicrup
5. Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties Following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints	81	(24)
Deborah Lawrence and David R. Foster
6. Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis	105	(40)
Rinku Roy Chowdhury and Laura Schneider, with Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger Pedro Macario Mendoza, Sergio Cortin Villar and Audrey Barker-Plotkin
PART III. AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF LAND CHANGE: HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY AND CULTIVATION
7. Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido	145	(26)
Peter Klepels and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
8. The Ejido Household: The Current Agent of Change	171	(18)
Colin Vance, Peter Klepels, Birgit Schnook, and Eric Keys
9. Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation	189	(18)
Peter Klepels, Colin Vance, Eric Keys, Pedro Macarlo Mendoza, B.L. Turner II
10. Jalapeño Pepper Cultivation: Emergent Commercial Land Use	207	(14)
Eric Keys
11. The Semi-Market and Semi-Subsistence Household: The Evidence and Test of Smallholder Behavior	221	(26)
Colin Vance
PART IV. SPATIAL MODELING OF LAND CHANGE: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES IN DATA-SPARSE ENVIRONMENTS
12. Spatially Explicit, Statistical Land-Change Models in Data-Sparse Conditions	247	(24)
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Laura Schneider, and Colin Vance
13. The SYPR Integrative Assessment Model: Complexity in Development	271	(22)
Steven Manson
Retrospective: The Three Frontiers Revisited	293	(6)
Glossary and Acronyms	299	(4)
Index	303