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

Abstract

'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change. Human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems : an introduction / Emilio F. Moran -- Theories underlying the study of human-environment interactions / Leah K. VanWey, Elinor Ostrom, and Vicky Meretsky -- Linking disciplines across space and time : useful concepts and approaches for land-cover change studies / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik, and J.C. Randolph -- Multidisciplinary research relating institutions and forest transformations / Catherine M. Tucker and Elinor Ostrom -- Forest ecosystems and the human dimensions / J.C. Randolph [and others] -- Retrieving land-cover change information from Landsat satellite images by minimizing other sources of reflectance variability / Glen M. Green, Charles M. Schweik, and J.C. Randolph -- Human-environment research, spatially explicit data analysis, and geographic information systems / Tom P. Evans, Leah K. VanWey, and Emilio F. Moran -- Modeling land-use/land-cover change : exploring the dynamics of human-environment relationships / Tom P. Evans, Darla K. Munroe, and Dawn C. Parker -- Intraregional analysis of land-use change in the Amazon / Eduardo S. Brondízio -- Processes of forest change at the local and landscape levels in Honduras and Guatemala / Catherine M. Tucker and Jane Southworth -- Comparison of aboveground biomass across Amazon sites / Dengsheng Lu [and others] -- Cross-continental comparisons : Africa and Asia / Jon Unruh [and others] -- Meta-analysis of agricultural change / William J. McConnell and Eric Keys -- New directions in human-environment interactions and land-use/land-cover research / Emilio F. Moran.