%0 Conference Proceedings
%4 sid.inpe.br/iris@1912/2005/07.20.05.00
%2 sid.inpe.br/iris@1912/2005/07.20.05.00.50
%F 8325
%T Toward a typology and regionalization of land-cover and use change
%D 1994
%A McNeil, J.,
%A Alves, Diogenes Salas,
%A Arizpe, L.,
%A Bykova, O.,
%A Galvin, K.,
%A Kelmelis, J.,
%A Migot-Adholla, S.,
%A Morrisette, P.,
%A Moss, R.,
%A Richards, J.,
%A Riebasame, W.,
%A Sadowski, F.,
%A Sanderson, S.,
%A Skole, D.,
%A Tarr, J.,
%A Willian, M.,
%A Yadav, S.,
%A Young, S.,
%B Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: Global Perspective.
%I Cambridge University Press
%P 55-72
%K ESTUDOS INTEGRADOS DO MEIO AMBIENTE, MUDANCA GLOBAL, USO DA TERRA.
%X Making sense of changes in global patterns of land use or land cover requires drastic simplification. The complexity of changes on the world scale easily defies the most acute and informed observer. But simplification is no simple process. To be useful it must bring out into sharp relief what is most important and relegate to obscurity what can most safely be ignored. Hard decisions and expert judgments are necessarily involved. In making these decisions and judgments we are acutely aware that others might well have been made in their stead, and perhaps with equal justification. We regard our work as a first step that we hope will help others to take long strides toward a more complete understanding of global patterns of land-use and land-cover change.
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