National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and International Studies Governance Center for Economics, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Panel on New Research on Population and the Environment, Paul C. Stern (EDT), Barbara Entwisle (EDT) Population, Land Use, and Environment

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Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a set of state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironment relationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdeveloped countries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methods are being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers, research funders, and students.