Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendationsfor future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populationsaffect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation,urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a setof state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironmentrelationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdevelopedcountries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methodsare being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers,research funders, and students.