Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 303-320

Glosario: páginas 299-302

1. Introduction Three Frontiers of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region and SYPR Project.. I: Human-Environment Relationships, 1000 BC - AD 1900.. 2. The Long View: Human-Environment Relationships 1000 BC - AD 1900.. 3. Forest Extraction to Theme Parks: The Modern History of Land Change.. II: Land-Cover Characteristics and Change.. 4. Forest Types and their Implications.. 5. Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints.. 6. Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis.. III: Agents and Institutions of Land Change: Household Economy and Cultivation.. 7. Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido.. 8. The Ejido Household: The Current Agent of Change.. 9. Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation.. 10. Jalapeno Pepper Cultivation: Emergent Commercial Land Use.. 11. The Semi-Market and Semi-Subsistence Household: The Evidence and Test of Smallholder Behavior.. IV: Spatial Modeling of Land Change: Empirical Approaches in Data-Sparse Environments.. 12. Spatially Explicit, Statistical Land-Change Models in Data-Sparse Conditions.. 13. The SYPR Integrative Assessment Model: Complexity in Development.. Retrospective: The Three Frontiers Revisited.. Glossary and Acronyms.. Index

This highly topical study of tropical deforestation in Mexico reports on the first phase of the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region Project (LCLUC-SYPR): a large, multi-institutional, and team-based study designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives committed to various international programmes of forest preservation and complementary economic programmes. The SYPR project is a response to inderdisciplinary defined research themes deemed critical to global environmental change and complementary international research agendas (e.g. environment and development, ecosystem assessment, biotic diversity). Pivotal among these agendas are those posed by the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) effort of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme as it is linked through such US sponsors as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The themes (i.e. questions and subjects) posed by these programmes and organization are 'integrated' or 'synthesis' in kind, meaning that they rest within the intersection of formal disciplines and are intended to fit into a larger, systems framework about human-environment relationships and the structure and function of the biosphere. The editors of this volume, as most of its contributors, come from the disciplines of geography, ecology, and economics. The lead editor, the geographer B. L. Turner II, has spent most of his career in pursuit of understanding different aspects of tropical deforestation and agriculture. Inglés