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

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I Human-Environment Interactions -- 1 Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems: An Introduction -- 2 Theories Underlying the Study of Human-Environment Interactions -- 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 -- 4 Multidisciplinary Research Relating Institutions and Forest Transformations -- 5 Forest Ecosystems and the Human Dimensions -- III Methods -- 6 Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability -- 7 Human-Environment Research, Spatially Explicit Data Analysis, and Geographic Information Systems -- 8 Modeling Land-Use/Land-Cover Change: Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Environment Relationships -- IV Comparison: Generalizing from Case Studies -- 9 Intraregional Analysis of Land-Use Change in the Amazon -- 10 Processes of Forest Change at the Local and Landscape Levels in Honduras and Guatemala -- 11 Comparison of Aboveground Biomass across Amazon Sites -- 12 Cross-Continental Comparisons: Africa and Asia -- 13 Meta-Analysis of Agricultural Change -- V Epilogue -- 14 New Directions in Human-Environment Interactions and Land-Use/Land-Cover Research -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

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