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Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands

Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability

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Editors:
  1. Stephen J. Walsh

    1. Center for Galapagos Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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  2. Diego Riveros-Iregui

    1. Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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  3. Javier Arce-Nazario

    1. Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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  4. Philip H. Page

    1. Center for Galapagos Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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  • 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

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Prologue: Geographies of Hope and Despair: Land Cover and Land Use on Islands

    • Godfrey Baldacchino
    Pages 1-10

  3. Economic and Related Aspects of Land Use on Islands: A Meta Perspective

    • Richard E. Bilsborrow
    Pages 11-62

  4. Social-Ecological Drivers of Land Cover/Land Use Change on Islands: A Synthesis of the Patterns and Processes of Change

    • Stephen J. Walsh, Laura Brewington, Francisco Laso, Yang Shao, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Javier Arce Nazario et al.
    Pages 63-88

  5. Transitions and Drivers of Land Use/Land Cover Change in Hawaiʻi: A Case Study of Maui

    • Laura Brewington
    Pages 89-117

  6. Threats of Climate Change in Small Oceanic Islands: The Case of Climate and Agriculture in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

    • Carlos F. Mena, Homero A. Paltán, Fatima L. Benitez, Carolina Sampedro, Marilú Valverde
    Pages 119-135

  7. Galapagos is a Garden

    • Francisco Laso
    Pages 137-166

  8. Evaluating Land Cover Change on the Island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos Archipelago of Ecuador Through Cloud-Gap Filling and Multi-sensor Analysis

    • Yang Shao, Heng Wan, Alexander Rosenman, Francisco J. Laso, Lisa M. Kennedy
    Pages 167-182

  9. Human and Natural Environments, Island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos: A Model-Based Approach to Link Land Cover/Land Use Changes to Direct and Indirect Socio-Economic Drivers of Change

    • Francesco Pizzitutti, Laura Brewington, Stephen J. Walsh
    Pages 183-203

  10. How Do Non-Native Plants Influence Soil Nutrients Along a Hydroclimate Gradient on San Cristobal Island?

    • Jia Hu, Claire Qubain, Diego Riveros-Iregui
    Pages 205-219

  11. A Critical Physical Geography of Landscape Changes in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1950s–2005

    • Lisa C. Kelley
    Pages 221-239

  12. Reframing the Competition for Land between Food and Energy Production in Indonesia

    • Chong Seok Choi, Iskandar Z. Siregar, Sujith Ravi
    Pages 241-260

  13. The Carbon Balance of Tropical Islands: Lessons from Soil Respiration

    • Sarah G. McQueen, Diego A. Riveros-Iregui, Jia Hu
    Pages 261-276

  14. Impacts and Management of Invasive Species in the UK Overseas Territories

    • Nicola Weber, Sam Weber
    Pages 277-298

  15. Correction to: Threats of Climate Change in Small Oceanic Islands: The Case of Climate and Agriculture in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

    • Carlos F. Mena, Homero A. Paltán, Fatima L. Benitez, Carolina Sampedro, Marilú Valverde
    Pages C1-C1

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 299-307
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About this book

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century. From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term impacts on ecological health, biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services, population vulnerability, and sustainability. These changes and challenges are perhaps nowhere more evident than in island ecosystems. Buffeted by rising ocean temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, climate change, tourism, population migration, invasive species, and resource limitations, islands represent both the greatest vulnerability to globalization and also the greatest scientific opportunity to study the significance of global changes on ecosystem processes, human-environment interactions, conservation, environmental policy, and island sustainability.


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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Galapagos Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Stephen J. Walsh, Philip H. Page

  • Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Diego Riveros-Iregui, Javier Arce-Nazario

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