Overview
- Presentation of results from a meta-analysis of global islands and the social-ecological drivers of change that operate a range of space-time scales
- Description of state-of-the-art methods to characterize land cover/land use change on islands that fuse satellite imagery at multiple scales with image processing approaches to enhance landscape views of islands, urban areas, and small-scale agriculture
- Multiple case studies are presented for islands around the globe in which human-environment interactions are assess as causes and consequences of land cover/land use change in island ecosystems
- International tourism, population migration, and resource limitations are assessed as forces of change on islands
- Biophysical, socio-economic, and cultural characteristics of islands are examined within the context of globalization, climate change, and island sustainability
Part of the book series: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands (SESGI)
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About this book
Inthis book, we study islands through the lens of Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) and the multi-scale and multi-thematic drivers of change. In addition to assessing the key processes that shape and re-shape island ecosystems and their land cover/land use changes, the book highlights measurement and assessment methods to characterize patterns and trajectories of change and models to examine the social-ecological drivers of change on islands. For instance, chapters report on the results of a meta-analysis to examine trends in published literature on islands, a satellite image time-series to track changes in urbanization, social surveys to support household analyses, field sampling to represent the state of resources and their limitations on islands, and dynamic systems models to link socio-economic data to LCLUC patterns. The authors report on a diversity of islands, conditions, and circumstances that affect LCLUC patterns and processes, often informed through perspectives rooted, forinstance, in conservation, demography, ecology, economics, geography, policy, and sociology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands
Book Subtitle: Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability
Editors: Stephen J. Walsh, Diego Riveros-Iregui, Javier Arce-Nazario, Philip H. Page
Series Title: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43973-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43972-9Published: 17 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43975-0Published: 17 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43973-6Published: 16 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2195-1055
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1063
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 307
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Geography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Nature Conservation, Environmental Policy