Table of Contents

1. Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human-Environment Interactions.- 2. Continuous and Discrete: Where They Have Met in Nang Rong, Thailand.- 3. Land Use Strategies in the Mara Ecosystem: A Spatial Analysis Linking Socio-Economic Data with Landscape Variables.- 4. Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China.- 5. Spatial Modeling of Village Functional Territories to Support Population-Environment Linkages.- 6. Understanding a Dynamic Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia.- 7. The Impact of Land Titling on Tropical Forest Resources.- 8. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Ownership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990.- 9. Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon.- 10. Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region of the Brazilian Amazon.- 11. Multi-Resolution Classification Framework for Improving Land Use / Cover Mapping.- 12. Urban Growth in Kathmandu, Nepal: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction.- 13. FAO Methodologies for Land Cover Classification and Mapping.- 14. Spatial Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios for Policy Purposes: Some Applications of the CLUE Framework.

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