Land use change science, policy, and management
Presents spatial theories and methodologies that support an integrated approach to analysis of land use change. Focusing on spatial representation and modeling, this book addresses such important scientific issues as the dynamics of change, integration and feedback between system elements, and scale...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
©2008.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781420042962 9781420042979 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (xxvii, 185 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Theory and methodology
- Basic and applied land use science / Richard J. Aspinall
- Developing spatially dependent procedures and models for multicriteria decision analysis: place, time, and decision making related to land use change / Michael J. Hill
- Comparative regional case studies
- Spatial methodologies for integrating social and biophysical data at a regional or catchment scale / Ian Byron and Robert Lesslie
- An integrated socioeconomic study of deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000 / Ronnie Babigumira, Daniel Müller and Arild Angelsen
- Modeling unplanned land cover change across scales: a Colombian case study / Andres Etter and Clive McAlpine
- Landscape dynamism: disentangling thematic versus structural change in Northeast Thailand / Kelley A. Crews
- Developing a thick understanding of forest fragmentation in landscapes of colonization in the Amazon Basin / Andrew C. Millington and Andrew V. Bradley
- Urban land-use change, models, uncertainty, and policymaking in rapidly growing developing world cities: evidence from China / Michail Fragkias and Karen C. Seto
- Synthesis and prospect
- Synthesis, comparative analysis, and prospect / Michael J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall.