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Integrated land-change science and tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán : final frontiers /
This highly topical study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Color Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- The Editors
- The Contributors
- 1. Three Frontiers of the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region and SYPR Project
- PART I. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT HISTORY IN THE SOUTHERN YUCATÁN PENINSULAR REGION
- 2. The Long View: Human-Environment Relationships,1000 BC-AD 1900
- 3. Forest Extraction to Theme Parks: The Modern History of Land Change
- PART II. LAND-COVER CHARACTERISTICS AND CHANGE
- 4. Forest Types and their Implications.
- 5. Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties Following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints
- 6. Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis
- PART III. AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF LAND CHANGE: HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY AND CULTIVATION
- 7. Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido
- 8. The Ejido Household: The Current Agent of Change
- 9. Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation
- 10. Jalapeño Pepper Cultivation: Emergent Commercial Land Use.
- 11. The Semi-Market and Semi-Subsistence Household: The Evidence and Test of Smallholder Behavior
- PART IV. SPATIAL MODELING OF LAND CHANGE: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES IN DATA-SPARSE ENVIRONMENTS
- 12. Spatially Explicit, Statistical Land-Change Models in Data-Sparse Conditions
- 13. The SYPR Integrative Assessment Model: Complexity in Development
- Retrospective: The Three Frontiers Revisited
- Glossary and Acronyms
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