Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations
for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations
affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation,
urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a set
of state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironment
relationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdeveloped
countries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methods
are being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers,
research funders, and students.
- FrontMatter
- Preface
- Contents
- PART I--PANEL REPORT
- Executive Summary
- 1 The State of Knowledge
- 2 Recommended Research Directions
- References
- PART II--PAPERS
- 3 Global and Case-Based Modeling of Population and Land Use Change--Günther Fischer and Brian C. O’Neill
- 4 Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains--Myron P. Gutmann, William J. Parton, Geoff Cunfer, and Ingrid C. Burke
- 5 Population and Environment in Amazônia: Landscape and Household Dynamics--Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondízio, and Leah K. VanWey
- 6 Population Change and Landscape Dynamics: The Nang Rong, Thailand, Studies--Stephen J. Walsh, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Pramote Prasartkul, Barbara Entwisle, and Aphichat Chamratrithirong
- 7 The Urban Ecology of Metropolitan Phoenix: A Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Study--Charles L. Redman
- 8 Economies, Societies, and Landscapes in Transition: Examples from the Pearl River Delta, China, and the Red River Delta, Vietnam--Karen C. Seto
- 9 Beyond Population Size: Examining Intricate Interactions Among Population Structure, Land Use, and Environment in Wolong Nature Reserve, China--Jianguo Liu, Li An, Sandra S. Batie, Scott L. Bearer, Xiaodong Chen, Richard E. Groop, Guangming He, Zai Liang,
- 10 People, Land Use, and Environment in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico--Pamela Matson, Amy L. Luers, Karen C. Seto, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio
- 11 Patterns of Urban Land Use as Assessed by Satellite Imagery: An Application to Cairo, Egypt--John R. Weeks, Dennis P. Larson, and Debbie L. Fugate
- 12 A Review of 10 Years of Work on Economic Growth and Population Change in Rural India--Andrew Foster
- Appendix About the Contributors
- PLATES
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