Seeing the forest and the trees
Subtitle: human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems
By: edited by Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom.
Contributors: Moran, Emilio F.; Ostrom, Elinor.
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780262633123; 9780262134538
Subjects: Deforestation; Forest management; Forest ecology; Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Description: 'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-423) and index.
Table of contents: title: Human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems : an introduction / Emilio F. Moran; title: Theories underlying the study of human-environment interactions / Leah K. VanWey, Elinor Ostrom, and Vicky Meretsky; title: Linking disciplines across space and time : useful concepts and approaches for land-cover change studies / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik, and J.C. Randolph; title: Multidisciplinary research relating institutions and forest transformations / Catherine M. Tucker and Elinor Ostrom; title: Forest ecosystems and the human dimensions / J.C. Randolph ... [et al.]; title: Retrieving land-cover change information from Landsat satellite images by minimizing other sources of reflectance variability / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik, and J.C. Randolph; title: Human-environment research, spatially explicit data analysis, and geographic information systems / Tom P. Evans, Leah K. VanWey, and Emilio F. Moran; title: Modeling land-use/land-cover change : exploring the dynamics of human-environment relationships / Tom P. Evans, Darla K. Munroe, and Dawn C. Parker; title: Intraregional analysis of land-use change in the Amazon / Eduardo S. Brondízio; title: Processes of forest change at the local and landscape levels in Honduras and Guatemala / Catherine M. Tucker and Jane Southworth; title: Comparison of aboveground biomass across Amazon sites / Dengsheng Lu ... [et al.]; title: Cross-continental comparisons : Africa and Asia / Jon Unruh ... [et al.]; title: Meta-analysis of agricultural change / William J. McConnell and Eric Keys; title: New directions in human-environment interactions and land-use/land-cover research / Emilio F. Moran.