Linking People, Place, and Policy
A GIScience Approach
Editors: Walsh, Stephen J., Crews-Meyer, Kelley A. (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human-Environment Interactions
Pages 1-5
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Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand
Pages 7-37
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Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables
Pages 39-68
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Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China
Pages 69-90
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Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages
Pages 91-111
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Linking People, Place, and Policy
- Book Subtitle
- A GIScience Approach
- Editors
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- Stephen J. Walsh
- Kelley A. Crews-Meyer
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-0985-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-0985-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-7003-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-5337-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 348
- Topics
