TY - JOUR
T1 - Frontier land use change
T2 - Synthesis, challenges, and next steps
AU - Rindfuss, Ronald R.
AU - Entwisle, Barbara
AU - Walsh, Stephen J.
AU - Mena, Carlos F.
AU - Erlien, Christine M.
AU - Gray, Clark L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The development of this article was supported in part by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap Initiative grant (HD051645-01) to the Carolina Population Center (CPC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While this article was being written, Christine M. Erlien was supported by a NSF IGERT grant (DGE-0333193) and a NASA grant (NCC5-699); Clark Gray was supported by a NSF IGERT grant (DGE-0333193) and a NSF graduate fellowship (DGE-0202736); and Carlos F. Mena was supported by a NASA grant (NNG04GR12H). Ronald R. Rindfuss was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters when work on this article was in its final stage. Helpful comments on an earlier version were received from Richard Bilsborrow, Eduardo Brondizio, Jefferson Fox, Jacqueline Geogh-egan, Steven Manson, George Malanson, Ken Sylvester, members of the CPC population-environment seminar, and five anonymous reviews. We are also grateful for general support from CPC and administrative support from Mary Williams.
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - Profound social, economic, and environmental changes that include new land management practices are often associated with advancing agricultural frontiers. We argue that existing approaches to case studies do not allow for clear generalization or the systematic testing of hypotheses. As an alternative, our study uses Mill's method of agreement approach to synthesize results from seven long-term case studies of land cover change in frontier areas. We identify a number of generalizations that hold across the specific case studies. We also identify changes in the spatial organization of land use in agricultural frontier areas, which are typically characterized by agricultural expansion, growing population, and transportation improvements. We then evaluate the methodological strengths and weaknesses of Mill's method of agreement based on use in this study. Finally, we argue that agent-based models, using virtual landscapes and the logic of demographic standardization, are an important next step to facilitate methodologically defensible comparisons across case studies.
AB - Profound social, economic, and environmental changes that include new land management practices are often associated with advancing agricultural frontiers. We argue that existing approaches to case studies do not allow for clear generalization or the systematic testing of hypotheses. As an alternative, our study uses Mill's method of agreement approach to synthesize results from seven long-term case studies of land cover change in frontier areas. We identify a number of generalizations that hold across the specific case studies. We also identify changes in the spatial organization of land use in agricultural frontier areas, which are typically characterized by agricultural expansion, growing population, and transportation improvements. We then evaluate the methodological strengths and weaknesses of Mill's method of agreement based on use in this study. Finally, we argue that agent-based models, using virtual landscapes and the logic of demographic standardization, are an important next step to facilitate methodologically defensible comparisons across case studies.
KW - Agent-based models
KW - Case comparisons
KW - Frontier
KW - Landuse change
KW - Population dynamics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/36348963082
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00580.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00580.x
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:36348963082
SN - 0004-5608
VL - 97
SP - 739
EP - 754
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
IS - 4
ER -
SDG 15 Life on Land