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  • eBook:Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands

    Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands

    Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability
    Stephen J. Walsh; Diego Riveros-Iregui; Javier Arce-Nazario; Philip H. Page
    978-3-030-43973-6
    2020
    Edition 1
    • Presentation of results from a meta-analysis of global islands and the social-ecological drivers of change that operate a range of space-time scales
    • Description of state-of-the-art methods to characterize land cover/land use change on islands that fuse satellite imagery at multiple scales with image processing approaches to enhance landscape views of islands, urban areas, and small-scale agriculture
    • Multiple case studies are presented for islands around the globe in which human-environment interactions are assess as causes and consequences of land cover/land use change in island ecosystems
    • International tourism, population migration, and resource limitations are assessed as forces of change on islands
    • Biophysical, socio-economic, and cultural characteristics of islands are examined within the context of globalization, climate change, and island sustainability

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