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LINKING PEOPLE, PLACE, AND POLICY A GIScience Approach LINKING PEOPLE, PLACE, ANDPOLICY A GIScience Approach edited by Stephen J. Walsh University ofN orth Carolina Chapel Hill, U.S.A. Kelley A. Crews-Meyer University of Texas Austin, U.S.A. SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSlNESS MEDIA, LLC Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linking people, place, and policy : a GIScience approach / edited by Stephen 1. Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. ISBN 978-1-4613-5337-9 ISBN 978-1-4615-0985-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0985-1 1. Nature-Effect of human beings on - Case studies. 2. Natural areas-Management-Case studies. 3. Environmental policy-Case studies. 4. Geographic infonnation systems. 1. Walsh, Stephen Joseph, 1951- II. Crews- Meyer, Kelley A. GF75 .L56 2002 333.7'2-dc21 2002016133 Copyright © 2002 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 2002 Ali rights reserved. No part ofthis work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any fonn or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without the written pennission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Permission for books published in Europe: pennissionsfalwkap.nl Permissions for books published in the llnited States of America: permissions(ilJ,wkap.com Printed on acid-free paper. TABLE OF CONTENTS Co-Editors: Abbrieviated Profiles.............................................. Vll Acknowledgements: List of Reviewers. .. ... ... ... ......... ............ ..... ... IX Contributors List. . . . .. . .. . .. .. . .. . .. . . . . .. . . .. . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . ... . .. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. ... X 1. Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human- Environment Interactions Kelley A. Crews-Meyer... ........................ ..................... ...... 1 2. Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand Ronald R. Rindfuss, Barbara Entwisle, Stephen 1. Walsh, Pramote Prasartkul, Yothin Sawangdee, Thomas W. Crawford, Julia Reade ..... 7 3. Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables D. Michael Thompson, Suzanne Serneels, Eric F. Lambin .............. 39 4. Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China Karen C. Seto, Robert K. Kaufmann, Curtis E. Woodcock ..............6 9 5. Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages Thomas W. Crawford .........................................................9 1 6. Understanding a Dynamic Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia Jefferson Fox ................................................................. 113 7. The Impact of Land Titling on Tropical Forest Resources Robert Walker, Charles H. Wood, David Skole, Walter Chomentowski ....................................... '" ............ 131 8. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ownership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990 Scott A. Drzyzga, Daniel G. Brown ....................................... 155 9. Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon Stephen J. Walsh, Joseph P. Messina, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer, Richard E. Bilsborrow, William K. Pan ............................................. 187 10. Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region ofthe Brazilian Amazon Stephen D. McCracken, Bruce Boucek, Emilio F. Moran .............. 215 11. Multi-Resolution Classification Framework for Improving Land Use I Cover Mapping DongMei Chen, Douglas Stow, Arthur Getis ............................ 235 12. Urban Growth in Kathmandu, Nepal: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction Barry Haack, David Craven, Susan Jampoler, Elizabeth Solomon ... 263 13. FAO Methodologies for Land Cover Classification and Mapping John S. Latham, Changchui He, Luca Alinovi, Antonio DiGregorio, Zdenek Kalensky ............................................................. 283 14. Spatial Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios for Policy Purposes: Some Applications of the CLUE Framework Tom Ve1dkamp, Peter H. Verburg, Kasper Kok, Free De Koning, and Welmoed Soepboer. .............................. .317 Index ................................................................................ 343 VI CO-EDITORS: ABBREVIATED PROFILES Stephen 1. Walsh is a Professor of Geography, Director of the Landscape Characterisation & Spatial Analysis Lab (LC&SAL), and Research Fellow of the Carolina Population Centre at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is the former Amos H. Hawley Professor of Geography (1993-1996) and Director of the Spatial Analysis Unit at the Carolina Population Centre (1992-1997). He is the past Chair of the GIS (1997-1999) and the Remote Sensing (1995-1997) Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). In 1997, Professor Walsh was the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award and Medal from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG, in 1999 was awarded Research Honours from the Southeastern Division of the AAG, and in 2001 was awarded Research Scholarship Honours from the Association of American Geographers. He is on the editorial boards of Plant Ecology (1996-present), Journal of Geography (1995-present), The Professional Geographer (1997-2001), and the Southeastern Geographer (1992-2000). He also has recently co-authored special remote sensing and GIS application issues in the Journal of Vegetation Science (1994) and Geomorphology (1998). Professor Walsh's research interests are in GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, physical geography and population-environment interactions. Specific research foci are in pattern and process at the alpine treeline ecotone, biodiversity and river dynamics, scale dependence and information scaling, and landuse/landcover change modelling. Major studies underway in Ecuador, Thailand, and North Carolina and Montana, USA. Kelley A. Crews-Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Texas - Austin where she teaches remote sensing, GIS, and policy ecology. She is the Director of the department's Geographic Computing Systems as well as an Associate Director of the university's Environmental Science Institute. She is formally affiliated with the Center for Space Research, Population Research Center, and Lazano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of North Carolina and a post-graduate certificate from UNC in Public Policy Analysis with emphasis on environmental policy analysis. Her M.A. and B.S. degrees are from the University of South Carolina in Government and International Studies and Marine Science respectively. Her research centers upon the intersection of GIScience/remote sensing, policy analysis, and quantitative landscape ecology for assessing human- environment interactions across space and time. Her fieldwork and research experiences have concentrated primarily on tropical environments (Amazon, Southeast Asia), with new projects developing in the Choco of Ecuador, the Peruvian highlands, and the Texas coastal plain and borderlands. Recent publications have appeared in Geocarto International and Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, and focused upon longitudinal analysis of products derived from satellite imagery for assessing scale, pattern, and process. Recent awards include those from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the GIS Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and the Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Change 200 I (UCAR - Union of Concerned Atmospheric Researchers). viii Acknowledgements Cover: Original watercolor by Esca H. Crews, Jr.; digital design by Philip H. Page, University of North Carolina. CD-ROM: Produced by Philip H. Page, University of North Carolina. Index creation and editorial assistance: Derek M. Burgess, University of Texas. Reviewers: Thomas Bassett Ling Bian Michael Binford Michael Bishop Eduardo Brondizio Tom P. Evans Martha Geores Myron Gutman Andrew Hansen Philip Keating Nina M. Kelly Rheyna Laney Jack Liu Diana Liverman c.P. Lo William McConnell Robert McMaster Stephen Perz Gil Pontius Basil Savitsky Rodrigo Sierra Randolph Wynne IX Contributors Luca Alinovi Yo thin Sawangdee Richard E. Bilsborrow Suzanne Serneels Bruce Boucek Karen C. Seto Daniel G. Brown David Skole DongMei Chen Welmoed Soepboer Walter Chomentowski Elizabeth Solomon David Craven Douglas Stow Thomas W. Crawford D. Michael Thompson Kelley A. Crews-Meyer Tom Veldkamp Free De Koning Peter H. Verburg Antonio DiGregorio Robert Walker Scott A. Drzyzga Stephen J. Walsh Barbara Entwisle Charles H. Wood Jefferson Fox Curtis E. Woodcock Arthur Getis Barry Haack Changchui He Susan Jampoler Zdenek Kalensky Robert K. Kaufmann KasperKok Eric F. Lambin John S. Latham Stephen D. McCracken Joseph P. Messina Emilio F. Moran William K.Y. Pan Pramote Prasartkul Julia Reade Ronald R. Rindfuss Chapter 1 CHALLENGES FOR GISCIENCE: ASSESSMENT OF POLICY RELEVANT HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Kelley A. Crews-Meyer Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, USA
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