Theory and methodology -- Basic and applied land use science / Richard J. Aspinall -- Developing spatially dependent procedures and models for multicriteria decision analysis: place, time, and decision making related to land use change / Michael J. Hill -- Comparative regional case studies -- Spatial methodologies for integrating social and biophysical data at a regional or catchment scale / Ian Byron and Robert Lesslie -- An integrated socioeconomic study of deforestation in Western Uganda, 1990-2000 / Ronnie Babigumira, Daniel Muller and Arild Angelsen -- Modeling unplanned land cover change across scales: a Colombian case study / Andres Etter and Clive McAlpine -- Landscape dynamism: disentangling thematic versus structural change in Northeast Thailand / Kelley A. Crews -- Developing a thick understanding of forest fragmentation in landscapes of colonization in the Amazon Basin / Andrew C. Millington and Andrew V. Bradley -- Urban land-use change, models, uncertainty, and policymaking in rapidly growing developing world cities: evidence from China / Michail Fragkias and Karen C. Seto -- Synthesis and prospect -- Synthesis, comparative analysis, and prospect / Michael J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall.