Research Catalog

Title

Linking people, place, and policy : a GIScience approach / edited by Stephen J. Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers ; Norwell, MA : Distributors for North, Central and South America, Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walsh, Stephen Joseph, 1951-
• Crews-Meyer, Kelley A.

Description

ix, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subjects

• Environmental policy > Case studies
• Natural areas > Management > Case studies
• Geographic information systems
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human-Environment Interactions / Kelley A. Crews-Meyer -- 2. Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand / Ronald R. Rindfuss, Barbara Entwisle and Stephen J. Walsh / [et al.] -- 3. Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables / D. Michael Thompson, Suzanne Serneels and Eric F. Lambin -- 4. Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China / Karen C. Seto, Robert K. Kaufmann and Curtis E. Woodcock -- 5. Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages / Thomas W. Crawford -- 6. Understanding a Dynamic Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia / Jefferson Fox -- 7. The Impact of Land Titling on Tropical Forest Resources / Robert Walker, Charles H. Wood and David Skole / [et al.] --
• 8. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ownership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990 / Scott A. Drzyzga and Daniel G. Brown -- 9. Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Stephen J. Walsh, Joseph P. Messina and Kelley A. Crews-Meyer / [et al.] -- 10. Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region of the Brazilian Amazon / Stephen D. McCracken, Bruce Boucek and Emilio F. Moran -- 11. Multi-Resolution Classification Framework for Improving Land Use/Cover Mapping / DongMei Chen, Douglas Stow and Arthur Getis -- 12. Urban Growth in Kathmandu, Nepal: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction / Barry Haack, David Craven and Susan Jampoler / [et al.] -- 13. FAO Methodologies for Land Cover Classification and Mapping / John S. Latham, Changchui He and Luca Alinovi / [et al.] --
• 14. Spatial Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios for Policy Purposes: Some Applications of the CLUE Framework / Tom Veldkamp, Peter H. Verburg and Kasper Kok / [et al.].

ISBN

1402070039

LCCN

2002016133

OCLC

• ocm48920220
• SCSB-4280928

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries