People and the Environment

by Fox, Jefferson; Rindfuss, Ronald R.; Walsh, Stephen J.; Mishra, Vinod

• ISBN13: 9781402073229
• ISBN10: 1402073224
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS appeals to a wide range of natural, social, and spatial scientists with interests in conducting population and environment research and thereby characterizing (a) land use and land cover dynamics through remote sensing, (b) demographic and socio-economic variables through household and community surveys, and (c) local site and situation through resource endowments, geographical accessibility, and connections of people to place through GIS. Case studies are used to examine theories and practices useful in linking people and the environment. We also describe land use and land cover dynamics and the associated social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of change articulated through human-environment interactions. People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS addresses a need for a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of linking across thematic domains (e.g., social, biophysical, and geographical) and across space and time scales for research and study within the context of human-environment interactions. The human dimensions research community, LULCC program, and human and landscape ecology communities 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. Current researchers and those following this early group of integrative scientists face challenges in conducting this type of research, but the potential rewards for insight are substantial.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Foreword	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data: Methodological and Practical Problems	1	(30)
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Stephen J. Walsh
Vinod Mishra
Jefferson Fox
Glenn P. Dolcemascolo
Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (SYPR): An Integrated Approach	31	(30)
Billie L. Turner II
Jacqueline Geoghegan
Household Demographic Structure and Its Relationship to Deforestation in the Amazon Basin	61	(30)
Emilio F. Moran
Andrea Siqueira
Eduardo Brondizio
Integration of Longitudinal Surveys, Remote Sensing Time Series, and Spatial Analyses: Approaches for Linking People and Place	91	(40)
Stephen J. Walsh
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Stephen J. McGregor
Brian G. Frizelle
Joseph P. Messina
William K. T. Pan
Kelley A. Crews-Meyer
Gregory M. Taff
Francis Baquero
Household-Parcel Linkages in Nang Rong, Thailand: Challenges of Large Samples	131	(42)
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Pramote Prasartkul
Stephen J. Walsh
Barbara Entwisle
Yothin Sawangdee
John B. Vogler
Linking Pastoralists to a Heterogeneous Landscape: The Case of Four Maasai Group Ranches in Kajiado District, Kenya	173	(28)
Shauna B. BurnSilver
Randall B. Boone
Kathleen A. Galvin
Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data for Understanding Forest Fragmentation in Northern Vietnam	201	(22)
Jefferson Fox
Terry Rambo
Deanna Donovan
Le Trong Cuc
Thomas Giambelluca
Alan Ziegler
Donald Plondke
Tran Duc Vien
Stephen Leisz
Dao Minh Truong
Linking Socioeconomic and Remote Sensing Data at the Community or at the Household Level: Two Case Studies from Africa	223	(18)
Eric F. Lambin
Human Impacts on Land Cover and Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve: Linking Ecological, Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Behavioral Data	241	(24)
Jianguo Liu
Li An
Sandra S. Batie
Richard E. Groop
Zai Liang
Marc A. Linderman
Angela G. Mertig
Zhiyun Ouyang
Jiaguo Qi
Habitats, Hierarchical Scales, and Nonlinearities: An Ecological Perspective on Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data on Land-Cover/Use Change	265	(20)
George P. Malanson
Linking People and Land Use: A Sociological Perspective	285
William G. Axinn
Jennifer S. Barber