Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new
challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.
From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the
global economy, the relationship between humans and their
environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term
impacts on ecological health, biodiversity, ecosystem goods and
services, population vulnerability, and sustainability. These
changes and challenges are perhaps nowhere more evident than in
island ecosystems. Buffeted by rising ocean temperatures, extreme
weather events, sea-level rise, climate change, tourism, population
migration, invasive species, and resource limitations, islands
represent both the greatest vulnerability to globalization and also
the greatest scientific opportunity to study the significance of
global changes on ecosystem processes, human-environment
interactions, conservation, environmental policy, and island
sustainability. In this book, we study islands through the lens of
Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) and the multi-scale and
multi-thematic drivers of change. In addition to assessing the key
processes that shape and re-shape island ecosystems and their land
cover/land use changes, the book highlights measurement and
assessment methods to characterize patterns and trajectories of
change and models to examine the social-ecological drivers of
change on islands. For instance, chapters report on the results of
a meta-analysis to examine trends in published literature on
islands, a satellite image time-series to track changes in
urbanization, social surveys to support household analyses, field
sampling to represent the state of resources and their limitations
on islands, and dynamic systems models to link socio-economic data
to LCLUC patterns. The authors report on a diversity of islands,
conditions, and circumstances that affect LCLUC patterns and
processes, often informed through perspectives rooted, for
instance, in conservation, demography, ecology, economics,
geography, policy, and sociology.
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