Additional References / Readings

The following papers are meant as either

• background reading for the instructor,
• alternatives to the suggested readings, or
• basic material for specific courses built around the given themes.

Global Change -- Geographical Approaches

Kotlyakov, Vladimir M. et al. 1988. Global change: Geographic approaches: A review. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences (US), 85: 5986-5991.

Mackenzie, Fred T. 1995. Our changing planet: An introduction to earth system science and global environmental change. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. A resource book worth putting on reserve for the class as background to the module and course, especially Introduction to Physical Geography or Environmental Science courses.

Riebsame, William E. 1990. Anthropogenic climate change and a new paradigm in natural resource planning. Professional Geographer 42, 1: 1-12.

Roberts, Neil, ed. 1994. The changing global environment. Blackwell, Oxford.

An alternative to Mackenzie, worth putting on reserve for the class as background to the module and course, especially Introduction to Physical Geography or Environmental Science courses. Back to TOP

Land Use/Land Cover Change -- General Readings

A chapter for more advanced students with some background in Biogeography or similar areas.

Global Environmental Change 5, 4 (1995). Special Issue entirely devoted to the UN Research Programme on People, Land Management, and Environmental Change (PLEC).

Houghton, R.A. 1994. The world-wide extent of land-use change. BioScience 44, 5: 305-313.

Meyer, William B. 1995. Past and present land use and land cover in the USA. Consequences 1, 1: 24-33.

Meyer, William B. and Billie L. Turner II. 1996. Land-use/land-cover change: Challenges for geographers. GeoJournal 39, 3: 237-240.

Meyer, William B. and Billie L. Turner II., eds. 1994. Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meyer, William B. and Billie L. Turner II. 1992. Human population growth and land use/land cover change. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23: 39-61.

Ojima, D.S., K.A. Galvin, and B.L. Turner II. 1994. The global impact of land use change. BioScience 44, 5: 300-304.

Richards, John F. 1990. Land transformation. In: The earth as transformed by human action, eds. B.L. Turner II et al., 163-178, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

Riebsame, W.E. et al. 1994. Integrated modeling of land use and cover change. BioScience 44, 5: 350-356.

Riebsame, W.E., W.B. Meyer, and B.L. Turner II. 1994. Modeling land use and cover as part of global environmental change. Climatic Change 28: 45-64.

Turner II, Billie L. and K.W. Butzer. 1992. The Columbian encounter and land use change. Environment 34, 8: 16-20, 37-44.

Turner II, Billie L., W.B. Meyer, and D. Skole. 1994. Global land-use/land-cover change: Towards an integrated study. Ambio 23: 91-95.

Turner II, Billie L., R. Moss, and D. Skole, eds. 1993. Relating land use and global land- cover change. IGBP Report No. 24/HDP Report No.5. Stockholm, Sweden.

Urban, F. and T. Volltran. 1984. Patterns and trends in world agricultural land use. Foreign Agricultural Economics Report # 198. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Whitby, M. and J. Ollernshaw, eds. 1988. Land use and the European environment. London & New York: Belhaven Press.

Human Driving Forces

Rockwell, Richard C. 1994. Culture and cultural change. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. William B. Meyer and Billie L. Turner II, 357-382. Cambridge University Press: New York.

Sage, Colin. 1994. Population and income. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. William B. Meyer and Billie L. Turner II, 263-286. Cambridge University Press: New York.

Sanderson, Steven. 1994. Political economic institutions. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. William B. Meyer and Billie L. Turner II, 329-356. Cambridge University Press: New York.

Simon, J.L. 1980. Resource, population, environment: An oversupply of false bad news. Science 208: 1431-1437.

Turner II, B.L. 1991. Thoughts on linking the physical and the human sciences in the study of global environmental change. Research and Exploration 7: 133-135.

Turner II, B.L. et al. 1990. Two types of global environmental change: Definitional and spatial scale issues in their human dimensions. Global Environmental Change 1: 14-22.

Forests

Allen, J.C. and D.F. Barnes. 1985. The causes of deforestation in developing countries. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75: 163-184.

Barnett, Adrian. 1992. Deserts of trees: The environmental and social impacts of large-scale tropical reforestation in response to global climate change. London: Friends of the Earth.

Barraclough, Solon L. and Krishna B. Ghimire. 1996. Deforestation in Tanzania: beyond simplistic generalizations. The Ecologist 26, 3: 104-109.

Browder, J.O. 1988. The social cost of rain forest destruction: A critique of the "hamburger" Debate. Interciencia 13: 115-120.

Goldammer, J.G., ed. 1992. Tropical forests in transition: Ecology of natural and anthropogenic disturbance processes. Basel, Boston: Birkhauser Verlag.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). 1994. Options. Winter issue dedicated to Siberian Forests and IIASA's Siberian Forests Data Base and study.

Kummer, David M. and B.L. Turner II. 1994. The human causes of deforestation in Southeast Asia. BioScience 44, 5: 323-328.

Nance, Eric. 1995. Global change and forest responses: Theoretical basis, projections, and uncertainties. National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement Technical Bulletin, no. 690. NCASI; New York, NC.

Shen, Sinyan (Int. Boreal Forest Research Association). 1993. Boreal forests and global change: IBFRA papers. Woodridge, IL: Institute for World Resource Research. Or: World Resource Review 5, 1.

Skole, D.L. et al. 1994. Physical and human dimensions of deforestation in Amazonia. BioScience 44, 5: 314-322.

Skole, D. and C. Tucker. 1993. Tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite data from 1978 to 1988. Science 260: 1894-2024.

Tuomisto, H. et al. 1995. Dissecting Amazonian biodiversity. Science 269, 7 July: 63-66.

U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. 1994. Global change and forests. Agriculture Information Bulletin, no. 687. U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture: Washington, DC.

Williams, Michael. 1990. Forests. In: The earth as transformed by human action, eds. B.L. Turner II et al., 179-201, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

Williams, Michael. 1989. Deforestation: Past and present. Progress in Human Geography. 13, 2: 176-208.

US Forest Service. 1980. An assessment of the forest and rangeland situation in the United States. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture.

Grassland/Pasture

Graetz, Dean. 1994. Grasslands. In: Changes in land use and land cover: A global perspective, eds. William B. Meyer and Billie L. Turner II, 125-148. Cambridge University Press: New York.

Milton, Suzanne J. et al. 1994. A conceptual model of arid rangeland degradation. BioScience 44, 2: 70-76.

Solbrig, O.T. and M.D. Young. 1992. Towards a sustainable and equitable future for savannas. Environment 43: 7-15, 32-35.

Cropland

Dale, V.H. et al. 1993. Causes and effects of land use change in Central Rond^nia, Brazil. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 59, 6: 997-1005.

Helms, Susan, Robert Mendelsohn, and Jim Neumann. 1996. The impact of climate change on agriculture. Editorial essay. Climate Change 33, 1: 1-6.

Revelle, R. 1984. The world supply of agricultural land. In: Resourceful earth, eds. J.L. Simon and H. Kahn, 184-201. Blackwell: Oxford.

Richards, J.F. 1986. World environmental history and economic development. In: Sustainable development of the biosphere, eds. W.C. Clarke and R.E. Munn, 53-71. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Rosenzweig, Cynthia and Daniel Hillel. 1993. Agriculture in a greenhouse world. Research and Exploration 9, 2: 208-221.

US Congress, Office of Technological Assessment (OTA). 1982. Impacts of technology on land productivity. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture.

Wetlands

Contains chapters on the history and dynamics of sea-level change, and the impacts on human-made structures in the coastal areas as well as on temperate and tropical coastal ecosystems.

Based on conference proceedings. Contains at least one article pertinent to northern freshwater wetlands.

Mitsch, W. J. 1994. Global wetlands: Old world and new. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier.

Warren, R. Scott and William A. Neiring.1993. Vegetation change on a northeast tidal marsh: Interaction of sea-level rise and marsh accretion. Ecology 74, 1: 96-103.

Settlements

Brunn, Stanley D. and Jack F. Williams, eds. 1993. Cities of the world: World regional urban development. 2nd ed. New York: Harper Colins.

An introductory college text. Chapter 1 gives a general and conceptual overview of urbanization, then the book is organized by region. It ends with "Cities of the future," a chapter that goes beyond land use changes into the sociological implications of current trends.

An easy read on the problem of urban sprawl of America's cities onto highly productive land and into beautiful recreational areas. Also reprinted in Annual Editions: Urban Society. 7th ed., ed. Fred Siegel, 22-30. Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group.

Appendix: Readings in Print

1) FAO. 1970, 1980, 1991. Production yearbook: Explanatory notes and Notes on tables. FAO, Rome. (Reprinted with the permission of the FAO.)

2) Berg, B.L. 1995. "Chapter 2" in: Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. 2nd. ed., 14-28. Allyn and Bacon. Boston, MA. (Reprinted with the permission of Allyn & Bacon.)

3) Loveland, T.R. et al. 1995. Seasonal land-cover regions in the United States. Annals, Association of American Geographers 85: 339-355. (Reprinted with the permission of the AAG.)

Note: The excellent color map that came as a supplement with this issue of the Annals is available from the USGS for US$ 3 per map (at the time of publication) at the following address.

12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. Mailstop 503 Reston, VA 22092

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