| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 320 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies |
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Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q |
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R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
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 farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives committed to various international programmes of forest preservation and complementary economic programmes. - ;This highly topical study of tropical deforestation in Mexico reports on the first phase of the Land-Cover and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Deforestation -- Mexico -- Yucatan, Southern
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Land use -- Mexico -- Yucatan, Southern
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Deforestation
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Land use
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1945- editor.
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Geoghegan, Jacqueline Mary, editor.
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Foster, David R., 1954- editor.
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| LC no. |
2004299534 |
| ISBN |
9780191514289 |
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0191514284 |
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0191917516 |
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9780191917516 |
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1280846712 |
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9781280846717 |
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