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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (457 p.) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Disciplina: 333.75
• Soggetto topico: Deforestation; Forest management; Forest ecology; Nature - Effect of human beings on
• Persona (resp. second.): MoranEmilio F.; OstromElinor
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Seeing the forest and the trees
• ISBN: 1-282-09715-6; 9786612097157; 0-262-28015-9; 1-4237-4683-X; 9780262280150
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826869303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II