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Seeing the forest and the trees : human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems / edited by Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deforestation.
- Forest management.
- Forest ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 p.) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Mit Press, c2005.
- Summary:
- Theoretical and empirical analyses of why some forested areas thrive and some decline; based on findings from an ongoing multidisciplinary research project carried out by biological, physical, and social scientists.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; I Human-Environment Interactions; 1 Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems: An Introduction; 2 Theories Underlying the Study of Human-Environment Interactions; II Conceptual Foundations of Human-Environment Analyses in Forest Ecosystems; 3 Linking Disciplines across Space and Time: Useful Concepts and Approaches for Land-Cover Change Studies; 4 Multidisciplinary Research Relating Institutions and Forest Transformations; 5 Forest Ecosystems and the Human Dimensions; III Methods
- 6 Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability 7 Human-Environment Research, Spatially Explicit Data Analysis, and Geographic Information Systems; 8 Modeling Land-Use/Land-Cover Change: Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Environment Relationships; IV Comparison: Generalizing from Case Studies; 9 Intraregional Analysis of Land-Use Change in the Amazon; 10 Processes of Forest Change at the Local and Landscape Levels in Honduras and Guatemala; 11 Comparison of Above ground Biomass across Amazon Sites
- 12 Cross-Continental Comparisons: Africa and Asia 13 Meta-Analysis of Agricultural Change; V Epilogue; 14 New Directions in Human-Environment Interactions and Land-Use/Land-Cover Research; Glossary; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-423) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09715-6
- 9786612097157
- 0-262-28015-9
- 1-4237-4683-X
- 9780262280150
- OCLC:
- 62872665
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