Actions for Land change science : observing, monitoring and understanding trajectories of change on the Earth's surface
Land change science : observing, monitoring and understanding trajectories of change on the Earth's surface / edited by Garik Gutman [and others].
- Published
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
- Copyright Date
- ©2004
- Physical Description
- xix, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Additional Creators
- Gutman, Garik
- Series
- Contents
- LCLUC CONCEPTS; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: The development of the international land use and land cover change (LUCC) Research Program and Its Links to NASA's Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) Initiative / Emilio F. Moran, David L. Skole, and B.L. Turner II -- The NASA land cover and land use change program / Garik Gutman et al. -- Meeting the goals of GOFC: an evaluation of progress and steps for the future / John R. Townshend et al. -- OBSERVATIONS OF LCLUC: CASE STUDIES: Forest change and human driving forces in Central America / Steven A. Sader, et al. -- Pattern to process in the Amazon Region: measuring forest conversion, regeneration and degradation / David L. Skole et al. -- Towards an operational forest monitoring system for Central Africa / Nadine T. Laporte et al. -- Land use and land cover change in Southeast Asia / Jay H Samek et al. -- Northern Eurasia: remote sensing ofboreal forests in selected regions / Olga N. Krankina et al. -- Land cover disturbances and feedbacks to the climate system in Canada and Alaska / A.D. McGuire et al. -- Mapping desertification in Southern Africa / Stephen D. Prince -- Woodland expansion in U.S. grasslands: assessing land-cover change and biogeochemical impacts / Carol A. Wessman et al. -- Arid land agriculture in Northeastern Syria: will this be a tragedy of the commons? / Frank Hole and Ronald Smith -- Changes in land cover and land use in the Pearl River Delta, China / Karen C. Seto, Curtis E. Woodcock, and Robert K. Kaufmann -- and CROSS CUTTING THEMES, IMPACTS AND CONSEQUENCES: he effects of land use and management on the global carbon cycle / R.A. Houghton, Fortunat Joos, and Gregory P. Asner -- Land use and hydrology / John F. Mustard and Thomas R. Fisher -- Land use change and biodiversity: a synthesis of rates and consequences during the period of satellite imagery / Andrew J. Hansen, Ruth S. DeFries, and Woody Turner -- Land use and climate / Gordon B. Bonan et al. -- Urbanization / Christopher D. Elvidge et al. -- Land use and fires / I. Csiszar et al. -- Land cover/ use and population / Ronald R. Rindfuss et al. -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES, MODELING: Trends in land cover mapping and monitoring / Curtis E. Woodcock and Mutlu Ozdogan -- Linking pixels and people / Ronald R. Rindfuss et al. -- Modeling land-use and land-cover change / Daniel G. Brown et al. -- SYNTHESIS AND LESSONS: BIOPHYSICAL CHANGE AND BEYOND: Land-use and land-cover change pathways and impacts / John F. Mustard et al. -- Integrated land-change science and its relevance to the human sciences / B. L. Turner II, Emilio Moran, and Ronald Rindfuss -- Research directions in land-cover and land-use change / Anthony C. Janetos.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1402025610 (cased)
1402025629 (e-book) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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