Linking People, Place, and Policy

by Walsh, Stephen J.; Crews-Meyer, Kelley A.

• ISBN13: 9781402070037
• ISBN10: 1402070039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach describes a breadth of research associated with the study of human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on land use and land cover dynamics. This book examines the social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of land use and land cover patterns and their dynamics, which are interpreted within a policy-relevant context. Concepts, tools, and techniques within Geographic Information Science serve as the unifying methodological framework in which landscapes in Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Cambodia, China, Brazil, Nepal, and the United States are examined through analyses conducted using quantitative, qualitative, and image-based techniques.Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach addresses a need for a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of GIScience for research and study within the context of human-environment interactions. The human dimensions research community, land use and land cover change programs, and human and landscape ecology communities, among others, are collectively viewing the landscape within a spatially-explicit perspective, where people are viewed as agents of landscape change that shape and are shaped by the landscape, and where landscape form and function are assessed within a space-time context. This book articulates some of these challenges and opportunities.

Table of Contents

Co-Editors: Abbrieviated Profiles	vii
Acknowledgements: List of Reviewers	ix
Contributors List	x
Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human Environment Interactions	1	(6)
Kelley A. Crew-Meyer
Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand	7	(32)
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Barbara Entwisle
Stephen J. Walsh
Pramote Prasartkul
Yothin Sawangdee
Thomas W. Crawford
Julia Reade
Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables	39	(30)
D. Michael Thompson
Suzanne Serneels
Eric F. Lambin
Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China	69	(22)
Karen C. Seto
Robert K. Kaufmann
Curtis E. Woodcock
Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages	91	(22)
Thomas W. Crawford
Understanding a Dynamic Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia	113	(18)
Jefferson Fox
The Impact of Land Titling on Tropical Forest Resources	131	(24)
Robert Walker
Charles H. Wood
David Skole
Walter Chomentowski
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ownership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990	155	(32)
Scott A. Drzyzga
Daniel G. Brown
Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon	187	(28)
Stephen J. Walsh
Joseph P. Messina
Kelley A. Crews-Meyer
Richard E. Bilsborrow
William K. Pan
Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region of the Brazilian Amazon	215	(20)
Stephen D. McCracken
Bruce Boucek
Emilio F. Moran
Multi-Resolution Classification Framework for Improving Land Use / Cover Mapping	235	(28)
DongMei Chen
Douglas Stow
Arthur Getis
Urban Growth in Kathmandu, Nepal: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction	263	(20)
Barry Haack
David Craven
Susan Jampoler
Elizabeth Solomon
FAO Methodologies for Land Cover Classification and Mapping	283	(34)
John S. Latham
Changchui He
Luca Alinovi
Antonio DiGregorio
Zdenek Kalensky
Spatial Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios for Policy Purposes: Some Applications of the CLUF Framework	317	(26)
Tom Veldkamp
Peter H. Verburg
Kasper Kok
Free De Koning
Welmoed Soepboer
Index	343