People and the Environment : Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) Household Demographic Structure and Its Relationship to Deforestation in the Amazon Basin Integration of Longitudinal Surveys Remote Sensing Time Series and Spatial Analyses Household Parcel Linkages in Nang Rong Thailand Linking Pastoralists to a Heterogeneous Landscape Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data for Understanding Forest Fragmentation in Northern Vietnam Linking Socioeconomic and Remote Sensing Data at the Community or at the Household Level Human Impacts on land Cover and Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve Habitats Hierarchical Scales and Nonlinearities Linking People and Land Use. 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.