Table Of ContentLINKING 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.
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Linking people, place, and policy : a GIScience approach / edited by Stephen 1.
Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer.
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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.
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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).
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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
