Land Use Change: Science, Policy and

Changes in the use of land reflect a variety of environmental and social factors, necessitating an equally varied suite of data to be used for effective analysis. While remote sensing, both from satellites and air photos, provides a central resource for study, socio-economic surveys, censuses, and map sources also supply a wealth of valid information. Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Managementpresents spatial theories and methodologies that support an integrated approach to the analysis of land use change. Focusing on spatial representation and modeling, this book addresses such important scientific issues as the dynamics of change, integration and feedback between system elements, and scale issues in space and time.

Figures	p. ix
Permissions	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Editors	p. xxiii
Contributors	p. xxv
Theory and Methodology
Basic and Applied Land Use Science	p. 3
Developing Spatially Dependent Procedures and Models for Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Place, Time, and Decision Making Related to Land Use Change	p. 17
Comparative Regional Case Studies
Spatial Methodologies for Integrating Social and Biophysical Data at a Regional or Catchment Scale	p. 43
An Integrated Socioeconomic Study of Deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000	p. 63
Modeling Unplanned Land Cover Change across Scales: A Colombian Case Study	p. 81
Landscape Dynamism: Disentangling Thematic versus Structural Change in Northeast Thailand	p. 99
Developing a Thick Understanding of Forest Fragmentation in Landscapes of Colonization in the Amazon Basin	p. 119
Urban Land Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking in Rapidly Growing Developing World Cities: Evidence from China	p. 139
Synthesis and Prospect
Synthesis, Comparative Analysis, and Prospect	p. 163
Index	p. 179
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