Socio-environmental research in Latin America interdisciplinary approaches using GIS and remote sensing frameworks /
This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and environmentally mega-diverse region known as Latin America. While remote sensing...
| Other Authors: | López, Santiago,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2023]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xix, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
Latin American studies book series.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and socio-environmental research in Latin America / Santiago López
- 2. Using spatial time-series and field data to understand cultural drivers of land change: Connecting land conflict and land change in Eastern Amazonia / Stephen Aldrich
- 3. Crossing boundaries: Transboundary geographic information in the Amazon borderlands of Peru and Brazil / David Seward Salisbury and others
- 4. Territorial implications of economic diversification in the Waorani ancestral lands / Rodrigo Sierra and others
- 5. New insights on water quality and land use dynamics in the Napo region of Western Amazonia / Santiago López, Adolfo Maldonado
- 6. From mapping to guiding: An emergent framework for the multiple uses of remote sensing and GIScience in socio-environmental research in the Peruvian Andes / Julio C. Postigo, Javier A. Ñaupari, Enrique R. Flores
- 7. The use of remote sensing in air pollution control and public health / Cesar I. Alvarez-Mendoza
- 8. Human-environmental interactions and their impacts on temperate forests in the Exploradores Valley in western Patagonia / Alejandro Salazar-Burrows, Jorge Olea-Peñaloza, Fernando Alfaro, Jorge Qüense, Didier Galop, Francisca Flores-Galaz
- 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful combination of conservation and tourism? / Andrés Gerique Zipfel, Kim André Vanselow
- 10. GIS approaches to environmental justice in Mexico's oil and gas production zones with implications for Latin America / Matthew Fry, Andrew Hilburn
- 11. Contributions to socio-environmental research through participatory GIS in archaeology / Alina Álvarez Larrain, Jason Nesbitt
- 12. Comparing volunteered data acquisition methods on informal settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a citizen participation ladder for VGI / Alexandre Pereira Santos, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Katharina Heider, Juan Miguel Rodriguez-Lopez
- 13. Challenges and opportunities, interdisciplinary GIScience research on human-environment dynamics in Latin America / Santiago López, David Seward Salisbury.