Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moran, Emilio F.
• Ostrom, Elinor.

Description

xiii, 442 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Deforestation
• Forest ecology
• Forest management
• Nature > Effect of human beings on

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-423) and index.

Contents

I. Human-environment interactions -- 1. Human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems : an introduction / Emilio F. Moran -- 2. Theories underlying the study of human-environment interactions / Leah K. VanWey, Elinor Ostrom and Vicky Meretsky -- 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 / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik and J. C. Randolph -- 4. Multidisciplinary research relating institutions and forest transformations / Catherine M. Tucker and Elinor Ostrom -- 5. Forest ecosystems and the human dimensions / J. C. Randolph, Glen M. Green, Jonathon Belmont, Theresa Burcsu and David Welch -- III. Methods -- 6. Retrieving land-cover change information from landsat satellite images by minimizing other sources of reflectance variability / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik and J. C. Randolph -- 7. Human-environment research, spatially explicit data analysis, and geographic information systems / Tom P. Evans, Leah K. VanWey and Emilio F. Moran -- 8. Modeling land-use/land-cover change : exploring the dynamics of human-environment relationships / Tom P. Evans, Darla K. Munroe and Dawn C. Parker -- IV. Comparison : generalizing from case studies -- 9. Intraregional analysis of land-use change in the Amazon / Eduardo S. Brondizio -- 10. Process of forest change at the local and landscape levels in Honduras and Guatemala / Catherine M. Tucker and Jane Southworth -- 11. Comparision of aboveground biomass across Amazon sites / Dengsheng Lu, Emilio F. Moran, Paul Mausel and Eduardo S. Brondizio -- 12. Cross-continental comparisons : Africa and Asia / Jon Unruh, Harini Nagendra, Glen M. Green, William J. McConnell and Nathan Vogt -- 13. Meta-analysis of agriculture change / William J. McConnell and Eric Keys -- V. Epilogue -- 14. New directions in human-environment interactions and land-use/land-cover research / Emilio F. Moran.

ISBN

• 0262134535 (alk. paper)
• 0262633124 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004062122

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries