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Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands, 1st ed. 2020 Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands Series

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Walsh Stephen J., Riveros-Iregui Diego, Arce-Nazario Javier, Page Philip H.

Couverture de l’ouvrage Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands
Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century. From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term impacts on ecological health, biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services, population vulnerability, and sustainability. These changes and challenges are perhaps nowhere more evident than in island ecosystems. Buffeted by rising ocean temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, climate change, tourism, population migration, invasive species, and resource limitations, islands represent both the greatest vulnerability to globalization and also the greatest scientific opportunity to study the significance of global changes on ecosystem processes, human-environment interactions, conservation, environmental policy, and island sustainability.

In this book, we study islands through the lens of Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) and the multi-scale and multi-thematic drivers of change. In addition to assessing the key processes that shape and re-shape island ecosystems and their land cover/land use changes, the book highlights measurement and assessment methods to characterize patterns and trajectories of change and models to examine the social-ecological drivers of change on islands. For instance, chapters report on the results of a meta-analysis to examine trends in published literature on islands, a satellite image time-series to track changes in urbanization, social surveys to support household analyses, field sampling to represent the state of resources and their limitations on islands, and dynamic systems models to link socio-economic data to LCLUC patterns. The authors report on a diversity of islands, conditions, and circumstances that affect LCLUC patterns and processes, often informed through perspectives rooted, for instance, in conservation, demography, ecology, economics, geography, policy, and sociology. 

1) Introduction

2) Climate and Environmental Change... (sea-level rise, ENSO Events)

3) Tourism & Population Migration... (immigration of tourist and residents, job transitions, household livelihoods) 

4) Land Cover/Land Use Change...  (deforestation, urbanization, agriculture, land abandonment)

4) Geographic Accessibility Land Socio-economic Connectivity... (regional & international trade, governance, colonial legacies and aid programs)

5) Resource Constraints... (freshwater availability & ecosystem goods and services)

6) Natural Hazards... (hurricanes, coastal erosion & volcanism)

7) Challenges Imposed by the Expanding Human Dimension...  (invasive species, population migration,economic development & transportation).

8) Conclusion (synthesis)


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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Prix indicatif 105,49 €

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