Workshop on Linking Household and Remotely Sensed Data:
Methodological and Practical Problems

Organizers

Jefferson Fox and Vinod Mishra
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Ronald Rindfuss and Stephen Walsh
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Tentative Workshop Schedule
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Friday, January 4, 2002

·  Session #1:  8:30 – 10:00 am
·  Open remarks, introductions, format & schedule, goals
·  Coffee Break:  10:00 – 10:15 am
·  Session #2:  10:15 – 11:45 am
   Chair—Jefferson Fox
     Household demographic structure and its relationship to deforestation in the Amazon Basin (20 minutes)
       Emilio F. Moran, Andréa Siqueira and Eduardo Brondizio
         Comments – George Malanson (5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
     Land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (SYPR) (20      minutes)
       B. L. Turner II , and J. Geoghegan
         Comments – William Axinn(5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
         All -- Comments/questions of both presentations (20 minutes)
· Concluding Morning Comments/Instructions:  11:45 am – 12:00 pm
· Lunch Break:  12:00 - 1:00 pm (catered on-site)
· Session #3:  1:00 – 2:30 pm
   Chair—Vinod Mishra
     Integration of longitudinal surveys, remote sensing time-series, and spatial analyses: Approaches for      linking people and place
       Stephen J. Walsh, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Stephen J. McGregor, Brian G. Frizzelle, Joseph P.        Messina, William K.T. Pan, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer, Gregory N. Taff (20 minutes)
         Comments – William Axinn (5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
     Linking household and remotely sensed data for understanding forest fragmentation in Northern      Vietnam (20 minutes)
       Jefferson Fox, Terry Rambo, Le Trong Cuc, Thomas Giambelluca, Alan Ziegler, Deanna Donovan,        Donald Plondke, Tran Dac Vien, Stephen Leisz, Dao Minh Troung, and Nghiem Phuong Tuyen
         Comments – William Axinn (5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
         All -- Comments/questions of both presentations (20 minutes)
· Coffee Break:  2:30 – 2:45 pm
· Session #4:  2:45 – 4:15 pm
   Chair—Stephen Walsh
     Household parcel linkages in Nang Rong, Thailand: Challenges of large samples
       Ronald R. Rindfuss, Pramote Prasartkul, Stephen J. Walsh, Barbara Entwisle, Yothin Sawangdee,        John Vogler (20 minutes)
         Comments – David Skole (5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
     Human impacts on land cover and panda habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve: A framework and methods      for integrating ecological-socio-economic-demographic data (20 minutes)
       Jianguo Liu, Li An, Marc Linderman, Zhiyun Ouyang
        Comments – George Malanson (5 minutes)
        Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
        All -- Comments/questions of both presentations (20 minutes)
· Concluding Comments/Instructions:  4:15 – 4:30 pm
· Social Event, Reception:  EWC Art Gallery, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
   Families and friends of participants are invited to join us

Saturday, January 5, 2002

· Session #5:  8:30 – 10:00 am
   Chair—Ronald Rindfuss
     Linking communities and households to climate variability and land cover/land-use change at different      scales in farming and pastoral systems of East Africa (20 minutes)
       K.A. Galvin, R.S. Reid, S, Burnsilver, and R.B. Boone
         Comments - David Skole(5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
     When to link social science and remote sensing data at the community rather than at the household level?
       Eric F. Lambin
         Comments – George Malanson (5 minutes)
         Comments/questions from the floor (10 minutes)
         All -- Comments/questions of both presentations (20 minutes)
· Coffee Break:  10:00 – 10:15 am
· Session #6:  10:15 – 12:15 pm
     Chair—Jefferson Fox
         Presentation:  David Skole (20 minutes)
         Comments/Discussion:  All (10 minutes)
         Presentation:  William Axinn and Jennifer Barber (20 minutes)
         Comments/Discussion:  All (10 minutes)
         Presentation:  Discussant George Malanson (20 minutes)
         Comments/Discussion:  All (10 minutes)
         Comments/Discussion:  All Speakers/Discussants (30 minutes)
         Concluding Comments:  12:15 – 12:30 pm; no afternoon sessions

Sunday, January 6, 2002

· No workshop Sessions

Monday, January 7, 2002

· Session #7:  8:30 – 10:00 am
   Chair—Vinod Mishra
         General Discussion:  Logistics of data collection; planning, execution, constraints; theory to data links          (specific topics will be decided based on previous days’ discussions)
· Coffee Break:  10:00 – 10:15 am
· Session #8:  10:15 – 11:45 am
   Chair—Stephen Walsh
         General Discussion:  Data Needs
· Concluding Comments/Instructions:  11:45 am – 12:00 pm
· Lunch Break:  12:00 – 1:00 pm (catered on-site)
· Session #9:  1:00 – 2:30 pm
   Chair—Ronald Rindfuss
         General Discussion:  Data manipulation & analysis (again, specific topics to be decided upon based          on earlier discussion)
· Coffee Break:  2:30 – 2:45 pm
· Session #10:  2:45 – 4:15 pm
   Chair—Jefferson Fox
         General Discussion:  Challenges & Opportunities
· Concluding Comments/Instructions:  4:15 – 4:30 pm
· Social Event, Sunset Cruise (cash bar):  5:00 - 7:00 pm

Tuesday, January 8, 2002

· Session #11:  8:30 – 10:00 am
   Chair—Vinod Mishra
         General Discussion
· Coffee Break:  10:00 – 10:15 am
· Session #12:  10:15 – 11:45 am
   Chair—Stephen Walsh
         Final Thoughts
         Book, Publishers, and Schedules
         Miscellaneous Administrative Items
         Concluding Comments
         Workshop Ends

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