editado por Eric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist. -- Berlin : Springer, 2010.

xviii, 222 p.; 24 cm. -- (Global change. The IGBP series)

ISBN 978-3-642-06882-9.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Introduction: local processes with global impacts -- Global land-cover change: recent progress, remaining challenges -- Causes and trajectories of land-use/cover change -- Multiple impacts of land-use/cover change -- Modeling land-use and land-cover change -- Searching for the future of land: scenarios from the local to global scale -- Linking land-change science and policy: current lessons and future integration -- Conclusión.