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Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences

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Land Change Science

Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing ((RDIP,volume 6))

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What is and ought to be humankind’s relationship with nature? This question has stood the test of time as an overarching intellectual and moral query confronting society and to which much research and pedagogy has been directed. The question can be traced to antiquity in western society (Glacken 1967), and has had no less profound thinkers in eastern societies.

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  1. Graduate School of Geography and George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University Worcester, Worcester, MA 01610, USA

    B. L. Turner II

  2. Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

    Emilio Moran

  3. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

    Ronald Rindfuss

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  1. NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Garik Gutman

  2. Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, The H. John Heinz III, Washington, DC, USA

    Anthony C. Janetos

  3. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Christopher O. Justice

  4. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Emilio F. Moran

  5. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    John F. Mustard

  6. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Ronald R. Rindfuss

  7. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MA, USA

    David Skole

  8. Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA

    Billy Lee Turner II

  9. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Mark A. Cochrane

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Turner, B.L., Moran, E., Rindfuss, R. (2012). Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences. In: Gutman, G., et al. Land Change Science. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2562-4_25

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  • Print ISBN: 978-94-007-4306-9

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