Land use change : science, policy and management
Aspinall, Richard J. Ed.
Land use change : science, policy and management - Boca Raton CRC Press 2008 - xxvii,185p.
CONTENTS Figures ix Permissions .xi Preface xiii Acknowledgmentsxv Introduction xvii Editors xxiii Contributors xxv PART I Theory and Methodology 1. Basic and Applied Land Use Science - Richard J. Aspinall 3 2. Developing Spatially Dependent Procedures and Models for Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Place, Time, and Decision Making Related to Land Use Change - Michael J. Hill 17 PART II Comparative Regional Case Studies 3. Spatial Methodologies for Integrating Social and Biophysical Data at a Regional or Catchment cale. - lan Byron and Robert Lesslie 43 4. An Integrated Socioeconomic Study of Deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000 - Ronnie Babigumira, Daniel Mutter and Arild Angelsen 63 5. Modeling Unplanned Land Cover Change across Scales : A Colombian Case Study - Andres Etter and Clive McAlpine 81 6. Landscape Dynamism : Disentangling Thematic versus Structural Change in Northeast Thailand. - Kelley A. Crews 99 7. Developing a Thick Understanding of Forest Fragmentation in Landscapes of Colonization in the Amazon Basin - Andrew C. Millington and Andrew V. Bradley 119 8. Urban Land Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking in Rapidly Growing Developing World Cities: Evidence from China - Michail Fragkias and Karen C. Seto 139 PART III Synthesis and Prospect 9. Synthesis, Comparative Analysis, and Prospect. - Michael J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall 163 Index 179
1420042963
Remote sensing
Land use--Environmental aspects
Land use--Management
Land use--Case studies
333.7317 / ASP
Land use change : science, policy and management - Boca Raton CRC Press 2008 - xxvii,185p.
CONTENTS Figures ix Permissions .xi Preface xiii Acknowledgmentsxv Introduction xvii Editors xxiii Contributors xxv PART I Theory and Methodology 1. Basic and Applied Land Use Science - Richard J. Aspinall 3 2. Developing Spatially Dependent Procedures and Models for Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Place, Time, and Decision Making Related to Land Use Change - Michael J. Hill 17 PART II Comparative Regional Case Studies 3. Spatial Methodologies for Integrating Social and Biophysical Data at a Regional or Catchment cale. - lan Byron and Robert Lesslie 43 4. An Integrated Socioeconomic Study of Deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000 - Ronnie Babigumira, Daniel Mutter and Arild Angelsen 63 5. Modeling Unplanned Land Cover Change across Scales : A Colombian Case Study - Andres Etter and Clive McAlpine 81 6. Landscape Dynamism : Disentangling Thematic versus Structural Change in Northeast Thailand. - Kelley A. Crews 99 7. Developing a Thick Understanding of Forest Fragmentation in Landscapes of Colonization in the Amazon Basin - Andrew C. Millington and Andrew V. Bradley 119 8. Urban Land Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking in Rapidly Growing Developing World Cities: Evidence from China - Michail Fragkias and Karen C. Seto 139 PART III Synthesis and Prospect 9. Synthesis, Comparative Analysis, and Prospect. - Michael J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall 163 Index 179
1420042963
Remote sensing
Land use--Environmental aspects
Land use--Management
Land use--Case studies
333.7317 / ASP