Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems

Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
I Human-Environment Interactions......Page 16
1 Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems: An Introduction......Page 18
2 Theories Underlying the Study of Human-Environment Interactions......Page 38
II Conceptual Foundations of Human-Environment Analyses in Forest Ecosystems......Page 72
3 Linking Disciplines across Space and Time: Useful Concepts and Approaches for Land-Cover Change Studies......Page 76
4 Multidisciplinary Research Relating Institutions and Forest Transformations......Page 96
5 Forest Ecosystems and the Human Dimensions......Page 120
III Methods......Page 142
6 Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability......Page 146
7 Human-Environment Research, Spatially Explicit Data Analysis, and Geographic Information Systems......Page 176
8 Modeling Land-Use/Land-Cover Change: Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Environment Relationships......Page 202
IV Comparison: Generalizing from Case Studies......Page 230
9 Intraregional Analysis of Land-Use Change in the Amazon......Page 238
10 Processes of Forest Change at the Local and Landscape Levels in Honduras and Guatemala......Page 268
11 Comparison of Aboveground Biomass across Amazon Sites......Page 294
12 Cross-Continental Comparisons: Africa and Asia......Page 318
13 Meta-Analysis of Agricultural Change......Page 340
V Epilogue......Page 370
14 New Directions in Human-Environment Interactions and Land-Use/Land-Cover Research......Page 372
Glossary......Page 388
References......Page 396
Index......Page 440