Chapter 1 The Development of the International Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) Research Program and Its Links to NASA’s Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Initiative

Chapter 2 The NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Program

Chapter 3 Meeting the Goals of GOFC

Chapter 4 Forest Change and Human Driving Forces in Central America

Chapter 5 Pattern to Process in the Amazon Region

Chapter 6 Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa

Chapter 7 Land Use and Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia

Chapter 8 Northern Eurasia

Chapter 9 Land Cover Disturbances and Feedbacks to the Climate System in Canada and Alaska

Chapter 10 Mapping Desertification in Southern Africa

Chapter 11 Woodland Expansion in US Grasslands

Chapter 12 Arid Land Agriculture in Northeastern Syria

Chapter 13 Changes in Land Cover and Land Use in the Pearl River Delta, China

Chapter 14 The Effects of Land Use and Management on the Global Carbon Cycle

Chapter 15 Land Use and Hydrology

Chapter 16 Land Use Change and Biodiversity

Chapter 17 Land Use and Climate

Chapter 18 Urbanization

Chapter 19 Land Use and Fires

Chapter 20 Land Cover / Use and Population

Chapter 21 Trends in Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring

Chapter 22 Linking Pixels and People

Chapter 23 Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change

Chapter 24 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Pathways and Impacts

Chapter 25 Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences

Chapter 26 Research Directions in Land-Cover and Land-Use Change