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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777569703321

Titolo

Seeing the forest and the trees : human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems / / edited by Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-09715-6

9786612097157

0-262-28015-9

1-4237-4683-X

9780262280150

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Disciplina

333.75

Soggetti

Deforestation

Forest management

Forest ecology

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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