Integrated land-change science and tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatan : final frontiers / edited by B.L. Turner II, Jacqueline Geoghegan and David R. Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1945-

Geoghegan, Jacqueline Mary.

Foster, David R., 1954-

Series:

Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies.

Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deforestation--Mexico--Yucatan.

Land use--Mexico--Yucatan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 320 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This highly topical study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional and team-based study in Mexico.

Contents:

Contents; List of Color Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; The Editors; The Contributors; 1. Three Frontiers of the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region and SYPR Project; PART I. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT HISTORY IN THE SOUTHERN YUCATÁN PENINSULAR REGION; PART II. LAND-COVER CHARACTERISTICS AND CHANGE; PART III. AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF LAND CHANGE: HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY AND CULTIVATION; PART IV. SPATIAL MODELING OF LAND CHANGE: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES IN DATA-SPARSE ENVIRONMENTS; Retrospective: The Three Frontiers Revisited; Glossary and Acronyms; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-191751-6

1-280-84671-2

0-19-151428-4

OCLC:

437108497