Summer Institute 2000 Program

Monday July 17 , 2000

Introduction to Summer Institute Program and LUCC Science Agenda

9:00 - 10:30 AM Overview of the Summer Institute 2000: Objectives and Program

Michael Binford, Charles Wood and Guillermo Podestá

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Reading assignment: LUCC Science Plan

10:30 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Conceptualizing the socio-economic and biophysical determinants of land use and environmental change

Charles Wood

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Suggested Reading: "People and Pixels"

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
Landscapes through the Lenses of Social and Natural Sciences
1:30 - 3:00 PM Landscapes through the Lens of Social Science

Diana Liverman, Univ. of Arizona

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Link to reading: Liverman, D.M. 1994. Modeling social systems and their interactions with the environment: A view form geography. In: Integrated Regional Models: Interactions Between Humans and Their Environment. P.M. Groddman and G.E. Likens (eds). Chapman and Hall.
[PDF File 100K]

Link to National Academy of Sciences publications: "People and Pixels.'

Link to more satellite imagery of Mexico at Univ. of Arizona's Regional Image Archive (ARIA)
(http:aria.arizona.edu)

3:00 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 4:30 PM Landscapes through the Lens of Natural Science

Michael Binford

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[PDF File 31 Mb]

4:30 - 5:30 PM Mini Symposium on Participants' Research and Activities - I

Andre, Juan Pablo, Gabriela, Angélica and Erna

6:00 PM Bus departs RSMAS


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