REFERENCES

Source Material for Figures

Figure 8.01: Radial swidden agriculture, roadside incursion, and large project clearings. Provided by Compton Tucker, NASA/GSFC.

Figure 8.02: Forest clearing along roads over a twenty year period. After Chomentowski, W., B. Salas, and D. Skole. Landsat Pathfinder project advances deforestation mapping. GIS World 7(4):34-38.

Figure 8.03: Urban expansion over fifteen years. Extracted from USGS EROS Data Center Earthshots article.

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/Beijing/Beijing

Figure 8.04: Lights of the USA from DMSP with AVHRR reference mosaic. Extracted from Web postings of compatible AVHRR and DMSP imagery.

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/nsdi/digital2.htm

http://julius.ngdc.noaa.gov:8080/production/html/BIOMASS/usa.html

Figure 8.05: Nightime detection of ephemeral African fires with DMSP

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/fires/africa.html

Suggested Reading

Arrow, K., B. Bolin, R. Costanza, P. Dasgupta, C. Folke, C. S. Holling, B.-O. Jansson, S. Levin, K.-G. M%ler, C. Perrings and D. Pimentel (1995), Economic growth, carrying capacity and the environment, Science 268:520-521.

Daily, G. and P. Erhlich (1996), Socioeconomic equity, sustainability and Earth's carrying capacity, Ecological Applications 6(4):991-1001.

Haberi, H. (1997), Human appropriation of net primary production as an environmental indicator: implications for sustainable development, Ambio 26(3):143-146.

Patz, J. A., P. R. Epstein, T. A. Burke and J. M. Balbus (1996), Global climate change and emerging infectious diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association 275(3):217-223.

Vitousek, P.M., Ehrlich, P. R., Ehrlich, A. H., Matson, P. A., 1986. Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis. BioScience, 36:368-374.

URLs

Hunger in the modern world

http://www.reliefnet.org/doc/hpa/hpa0.html#1

 

Sustainable development and philosophies of technology:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v1_n1n2/nieto.html

 

Why Study traditional agriculture?

http://fadr.msu.ru/rodale/agsieve/txt/vol5/3/art4.html

 

Population, energy use, and the ecology of agriculture:

http://dieoff.org/page69.htm

 

Habitat fragmentation:

http://envirolink.org/EcoLink/habfrag.html

 

Habitat fragmentation a global and local concern:

http://www.traverse.com/nonprof/center/synapse35/lacross.html

 

DMSP Homepage:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html

 

Human dimensions of global environment change:

http://www.ciesin.org/TG/thematic-home.html

 

Clearing after a road is cut:

http://amazon.sr.unh.edu/pathfinder1/information/papers/gisworld1/index.html

 

NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project:

http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/main.html

 

International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP):

http://ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de:80/ihdp/

 

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center:

http://sedac.ciesin.org/home-page/SEDAC-home.html

 

Famine Early Warning System:

http://www.info.usaid.gov/fews/fews.html