Linking People, Place, and Policy A GIScience Approach

Name: Linking People, Place, and Policy A GIScience Approach
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ISBN: 9781402070037

ISBN-10: 1402070039

ISBN-13: 9781402070037

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kelley A. Crews-Meyer, Stephen J. Walsh

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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…

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 4/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Co-Editors: Abbrieviated Profiles


Acknowledgements: List of Reviewers


Contributors List



Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human-Environment Interactions




Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand




Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables




Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China




Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages




Understanding a Dynamic Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia




The Impact of Land Titling on Tropical Forest Resources




Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ownership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990




Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon




Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region of the Brazilian Amazon




Multi-Resolution Classification Framework for Improving Land Use/Cover Mapping




Urban Growth in Kathmandu, Nepal: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction




FAO Methodologies for Land Cover Classification and Mapping




Spatial Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios for Policy Purposes: Some Applications of the CLUE Framework



Index