TY - JOUR
T1 - Land change in the southern Yucatán
T2 - Case studies in land change science
AU - Turner, Billie
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The SYPR project has received core support from the NASA LCLUC program (NAG-56046, 511134 and 6GD98G) and the NSF BCS program (0410016) as well as large number of other sponsoring units supporting specific personnel or parts of the project. I thank Barbara Trapido-Luire for the preparation of Fig. 1 and the various members of the SYPR project for their hard work and support.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The southern Yucatán Peninsular Region project was designed from the outset as an integrative, multidisciplinary program of study examining tropical deforestation in the largest track of seasonal tropical forest remaining in Mexico and in which smallholder agriculture and a major biosphere reserve are juxtaposed in regard to land uses and covers. Treating land as a coupled human-environment system, the project joins the remote sensing, environmental, social, and modeling sciences in a way that is now recognized as land change science. This paper introduces the project, the study region, and six papers that explore some of the coupled system dynamics in the region. These include the sub-regional variation in deforestation, the pan-regional adoption or anticipation of cattle ranching, the emergence of divergent household agricultural and overall livelihood strategies, the roles of cultural and household histories in agricultural livelihood choices, the temporal intensification of swidden cultivation and its implications for forest species, and carbon stocks across cultivation units, including a new econometric modeling application to forecast changes in these stocks.
AB - The southern Yucatán Peninsular Region project was designed from the outset as an integrative, multidisciplinary program of study examining tropical deforestation in the largest track of seasonal tropical forest remaining in Mexico and in which smallholder agriculture and a major biosphere reserve are juxtaposed in regard to land uses and covers. Treating land as a coupled human-environment system, the project joins the remote sensing, environmental, social, and modeling sciences in a way that is now recognized as land change science. This paper introduces the project, the study region, and six papers that explore some of the coupled system dynamics in the region. These include the sub-regional variation in deforestation, the pan-regional adoption or anticipation of cattle ranching, the emergence of divergent household agricultural and overall livelihood strategies, the roles of cultural and household histories in agricultural livelihood choices, the temporal intensification of swidden cultivation and its implications for forest species, and carbon stocks across cultivation units, including a new econometric modeling application to forecast changes in these stocks.
KW - Coupled human-environment systems
KW - Land change
KW - Tropical deforestation
KW - Yucatán
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U2 - 10.1007/s10113-010-0129-1
DO - 10.1007/s10113-010-0129-1
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:77956172557
SN - 1436-3798
VL - 10
SP - 169
EP - 174
JO - Regional Environmental Change
JF - Regional Environmental Change
IS - 3
ER -