People and the Environment
Subtitle: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS
Contributors: Jefferson Fox (Editor); Ronald R. Rindfuss (Editor); Stephen J. Walsh (Editor); Vinod Mishra (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781402073229
Subjects: Human Geography; Remote sensing; The Environment; Law; Environmental aspects; Land Utilization; Remote Sensing Techniques; Environmental Studies; Land Use; Earth Sciences - Geography; Environmental Science; Science / Environmental Science; Science-Earth Sciences - Geography; Social Science-Human Geography; Data processing; Information storage and retrie
First sentence: Changes in global land cover (biophysical attributes typically observed remotely) and land use (human purpose applied to these attributes) are occurring at a rate, magnitude, and spatial extent unprecedented in human history (Lambin et al. 2001).