Land use change
Subtitle: science, policy, and management
By: edited by Richard J. Aspinall, Michael J. Hill
Contributors: Aspinall, Richard J; Hill, Michael J. 1937-
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781420042962
Subjects: Land use -- Environmental aspects; Land use -- Management; Land use -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Changes in the use of land reflect a variety of environmental and social factors, necessitating an equally varied suite of data to be used for effective analysis. While remote sensing, both from satellites and air photos, provides a central resource for study, socio-economic surveys, censuses, and map sources also supply a wealth of valid information. Land Use Change: Science, Policy and Management presents spacial theories and methodologies that support an integrated approach to the analysis of land use change. Focusing on spacial representation and modeling, this book addresses such important scientific issues as the dynamics of change, integration and feedback between system elements, and scale issues in space and time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Theory and methodology; title: Basic and applied land use science / Richard J. Aspinall; title: Developing spatially dependent procedures and models for multicriteria decision analysis: place, time, and decision making related to land use change / Michael J. Hill; title: Comparative regional case studies; title: Spatial methodologies for integrating social and biophysical data at a regional or catchment scale / Ian Byron and Robert Lesslie; title: An integrated socioeconomic study of deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000 / Ronnie Babigumira, Daniel Müller and Arild Angelsen; title: Modeling unplanned land cover change across scales: a Colombian case study / Andres Etter and Clive McAlpine; title: Landscape dynamism: disentangling thematic versus structural change in Northeast Thailand / Kelley A. Crews; title: Developing a thick understanding of forest fragmentation in landscapes of colonization in the Amazon Basin / Andrew C. Millington and Andrew V. Bradley; title: Urban land-use change, models, uncertainty, and policymaking in rapidly growing developing world cities: evidence from China / Michail Fragkias and Karen C. Seto; title: Synthesis and prospect; title: Synthesis, comparative analysis, and prospect / Michael J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall