Part I. Introduction: 1. Global land-use and land-cover change: an overview; Part II. Working Group Reports: 2. A wiring diagram for the study of land use/cover change: Report of Working Group A; 3. Towards a typology and regionalization of land-cover and land-use change: Report of Working Group B; 4. Land-use and land-cover projections: Report of Working Group C; Part III. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: 5. Forests and tree cover; 6. Grasslands; 7. Human settlements; Part IV. Environmental Consequences: 8. Atmospheric chemistry and air quality; 9. Soils; 10. Hydrology and water quality; Part V. Human Driving Forces: 11. Population and income; 12. Technology; 13. Political-economic institutions; 14. Culture and cultural change; Part VI. Issues In Data and Modeling: 15. Modeling land atmosphere interactions: a short review; 16. Modeling global change in an integrated framework: a view from the social sciences; 17. Data on global land-cover change: acquisition, assessment, and analysis; Appendices; Index.