People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS

ISBN-13: 9781402073229 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 2002 / 319 str.

Jefferson Fox; Jefferson Fox; Ronald R. Rindfuss

Opis

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.

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List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. 1. Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data: Methodological and Practical Problems; R.R. Rindfuss, et al. 2. Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR): An Integrated Approach; B.L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan. 3. Household Demographic Structure and Its Relationship to Deforestation in the Amazon Basin; E.F. Moran, et al. 4. Integration of Longitudinal Surveys, Remote Sensing Time Series, and Spatial Analyses: Approaches for Linking People and Place; S.J. Walsh, et al. 5. Household-Parcel Linkages in Nang Rong, Thailand: Challenges of Large Samples; R.R. Rindfuss, et al. 6. Linking Pastoralists to a Heterogeneous Landscape: The Case of Four Maasai Group Ranches in Kajiado District, Kenya; S.B. BurnSilver, et al. 7. Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data for Understanding Forest Fragmentation in Northern Vietnam; J. Fox. 8. Linking Socioeconomic and Remotely Sensing Data at the Community or at the Household Level: Two Case Studies from Africa; E.F. Lambin. 9. Human Impacts on Land Cover and Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve: Linking Ecological, Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Behavioral Data; Jianguo Liu, et al. 10. Habitats, Hierarchical Scales, and Nonlinearities: An Ecological perspective on Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data on Land-Cover/Use Change; G.P. Malanson. 11. Linking People and Land Use: A Sociological Perspective; W.G. Axinn, J.S. Barber.