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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach describes a breadth of research associated with the study of human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on land use and land cover dynamics. This book examines the social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of land use and land cover patterns and their dynamics, which are interpreted within a policy-relevant context. Concepts, tools, and techniques within Geographic Information Science serve as the unifying methodological framework in which landscapes in Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Cambodia, China, Brazil, Nepal, and the United States are examined through analyses conducted using quantitative, qualitative, and image-based techniques.
Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach addresses a need for a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of GIScience for research and study within the context of human-environment interactions. The human dimensions research community, land use and land cover change programs, and human and landscape ecology communities, among others, are collectively viewing the landscape within a spatially-explicit perspective, where people are viewed as agents of landscape change that shape and are shaped by the landscape, and where landscape form and function are assessed within a space-time context. This book articulates some of these challenges and opportunities.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Linking People, Place, and Policy
Book Subtitle: A GIScience Approach
Editors: Stephen J. Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0985-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7003-7Published: 30 April 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5337-9Published: 30 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0985-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 348
Topics: Ecotoxicology, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Geography, general, Environmental Management, Atmospheric Sciences