1: B. L. Turner II, David R. Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan: Introduction:Three Frontiers of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region and SYPR Project
I:Human-Environment Relationships, 1000 BC - AD 1900
2: David R. Foster and B. L. Turner II: The Long View: Human-Environment Relationships 1000 BC - AD 1900
3: Peter Klepeis: Forest Extraction to Theme Parks: The Modern History of Land Change
II:Land-Cover Characteristics and Change
4: Diego Perez-Salicrup: Forest Types and their Implications
5: Deborah Lawrence and David R. Foster: Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints
6: Rinku Roy Chowdhury and Laura Schneider, with Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Pedro Macario Mendoza, and Sergio Cortina Villar: Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis
III: Agents and Institutions of Land Change: Household Economy and Cultivation
7: Peter Klepeis and Rinku Roy Chowdhury: Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido
8: Colin Vance, Peter Klepeis, Birgit Schmook, and Eric Keys: The Ejido Household: The Current Agent of Change
9: Peter Klepeis, Colin Vance, Eric Keys, Pedro Macario Mendoza, B. L. Turner II: Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation
10: Eric Keys: Jalapeno Pepper Cultivation: Emergent Commercial Land Use
11: Colin Vance: The Semi-Market and Semi-Subsistence Household: The Evidence and Test of Smallholder Behavior
IV: Spatial Modeling of Land Change: Empirical Approaches in Data-Sparse Environments
12: Jacqueline Geoghegan, Laura Schneider, and Colin Vance: Spatially Explicit, Statistical Land-Change Models in Data-Sparse Conditions
13: Steven Manson: The SYPR Integrative Assessment Model: Complexity in Development
Retrospective: The Three Frontiers Revisited
Glossary and Acronyms
Index

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