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Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR)
The new phase of SYPR research (2004-06) builds towards a
vulnerability analysis of the coupled human-environment system in the
region. Core support is provided by NSF’s Biocomplexity Program
(http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ere/ereweb/fund-biocomplex.cfm).
A second, three-year phase (2001-04) of research on the Southern
Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) was funded by NASA’s LCLUC (Land-Cover
and Land-Use Change) program (base support $ 590,000;
http://lcluc.gsfc.nasa.gov/),
with annual contributions from the NSF sponsored Center for the
Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change,
Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.hdgc.epp.cmu.edu ). This effort
was collaboration of Clark (Marsh Institute & Graduate School of
Geography), Harvard Forest (Harvard University), University of Virginia,
and ECOSUR (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur). The PIs include B. L. Turner
II, J. Geoghegan (Economics), J. R. Eastman, D. Lawrence (Ecology) and
H. Vester (Ecology).
The first phase of the SYPR project began in 1997 and concluded in
2000. It undertook an integrated land science approach to link
socioeconomic, historical, ecological, and remote sensing/GIS approaches
to uncovering the dynamics of tropical deforestation in the SYPR and to
develop and evaluate different modeling approaches that yield spatial
explicit land change explanations and projections (see
http://earth.clarku.edu/lcluc/).
Over $1 million in funded was generated to achieve this goal, and has
culminated in various publications:
OVERVIEW-COMPLETE PROJECT
• B. L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan, and D. Foster, eds.
2003. Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the
Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers. Oxford Geographical and
Environmental Studies. Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press
[forthcoming].
• B. L. Turner II et al. 2001. Deforestation in the
Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach. Forest
Ecology and Management, Vol. 154, No. 3, pp. 343-370.
• B. L. Turner II and J. Geoghegan. nd. Land-Cover
and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR).
In People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and
Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS. J. Fox, V. Mishar, R.
Rindfus, and S. Walsh, eds. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers
[forthcoming].
MODELING
• J. Geoghegan, et al. 2001. Modeling Tropical
Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: Comparing
Survey and Satellite Data. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment Vol.
85, Nos. 1-3, pp. 25-46.
• C. Vance and J. Geoghegan. nd. Modeling The
Determinants of Semi-Subsistence and Commercialized Land-Uses in an
Agricultural Frontier of Southern Mexico: A Switching Regression
Approach. International Regional Science Review, forthcoming.
• D. C. Parker, S. M. Manson, et al. 2001.
Multi-Agent Systems for the Simulation of Land-Use and Land-Cover
Change: A Review. Bloomington, USA, Center for the Study of
Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University.
CIPEC Working Paper CW-01-05.
• C. Vance and J. Geoghegan. nd. Temporal and
Spatial Modeling of Tropical Deforestation: A Survival Analysis Linking
Satellite and Household Survey Data. Agricultural Economics
[forthcoming].
• J. Geoghegan, L. Schneider, and C. Vance. 2003.
Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Scales: Modeling Deforestation in the
Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region. GeoJournal (forthcoming).
ECOLOGY
• F. J. Xuluc-Tolosa, H.F.M. Vester, N. Ramirez-Marcial,
J. Castellanos-Albores, and D. Lawrence. 2002. Leaf Litter Decomposition
of Tree Species in Three Successional Phases of Tropical Dry Secondary
Forest. Forest Ecology and Management [forthcoming].
• L. Read, and D. Lawrence. 2002. Recovery of
Biomass Following Shifting Cultivation in Dry Tropical Forests of the
Yucatan. Ecological Applications [forthcoming].
• D. Lawrence and D. R. Foster. nd. Changes in
forest biomass, litter dynamics and soils following shifting cultivation
in southern Mexico: an overview. Interciencia [forthcoming]
SOCIAL SCIENCE/GENERAL
• P. Klepeis and B. L. Turner II. 2001. Integrated
Land History and Global Change Science: The Example of the Southern
Yucatán Peninsular Region Project. Land Use Policy Vol 18, No. 1, pp.
272-39.
• B. L. Turner II, P. Klepeis, and L. Schneider.
2002. Three Millennia in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region:
Implications for Occupancy, Use, and “Carrying Capacity”. In The
Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. A.
Gómez-Pompa, M. Allen, S. Fedick & J. Jimenez-Osornio, eds. Haworth
Press. New York [forthcoming].
• P. Klepeis. Nd. From Farmers to Satellites:
Understanding Tropical Deforestation through Perspectives in Geography.
In Understanding Environmental Challenges: A Multi-disciplinary Approach—Tropical
Deforestation. S. L. Spray and K. L. McGlothin, eds. Portland, OR: Acada
Books (forthcoming).
• P. Klepeis and C. Vance. nd. Neoliberal Policy and
Deforestation in Southeastern Mexico: An Assessment of the PROCAMPO
Program. Economic Geography (forthcoming).
SYPR Researchers [project component] in one or both phases of the project:
S. Cortina V., ECOSUR
[remote sensing]
J. R. Eastman, Geography, Clark [remote sensing/GIS]
D. Foster, Harvard Forest, Harvard [forest and historical ecology]
J. Geoghegan, Economics, Clark [econometric modeling]
F. Gurri, ECOSUR [socio-demographic survey]
E. Keys, Geography, Arizona State [chili sector ]
P. Klepeis, Colgate (Ph.D. Geography, Clark) [history]
D. Lawrence, UVA (formerly researcher, Harvard Forest) [nutrient
cycling]
S. McCauley (doctoral student, Geography, Clark) [GIS models]
S. Manson, Geography, U. Minnesota [agent-based model]
P. Macario M., ECOSUR [crop & forest ecology]
S. Ochoa, ECOSUR [forest ecology & remote sensing]
Y. Ogenva-Himmelberger, Marsh Institute [remote sensing]
D. Perez-Salicrup, UNAM (formerly researcher, Harvard Forest) [forest
ecology]
A. B. Plotkin, Harvard Forest [aerial photography interpretation]
A. Pulsipher (doctoral student, Geography, Clark)* [vulnerability]
C. Radel (ABD, Geography Clark) [environmental empowerment & gender]
B. Savitsky, Florida St. U. (formerly Clark) [GIS]
B. Schmook (ECOSUR researcher & doctoral student, Geography, Clark)
[demography]
L. Schneider (ABD, Geography Clark) [biogeography & remote sensing]
B. L. Turner II, Geography, Clark [land-use/cover change]
R. Roy Chowdhury (ABD, Geography, Clark) [institutions and remote
sensing]
C. Vance, EPA (Ph.D. Economics, Clark) [econometric models]
H. Vester, ECOSUR [forest ecology]
R. Palmer (Geography, Clark) [biotic diversity]
Chris Busch (Economics, U.C. Berkeley) [chile sector]
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