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Download or read book Ecological Landscape Analysis, a GIS-based Tool for Defining Natural Landscape Units written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R Haines-Young
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203393031
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems written by R Haines-Young and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural. Environmental concern has grown in recent years, as a result of public awareness of the detrimental impact industry, transport and tourism can have on the ecosystem. This book examines the role of the new technologies of geographical information systems and remote sensing as media for the study of landscape, as they provide tools of unprecedented power which collect, store, manipulate and analyze data so as to support and assist the decisions which the environmental scientist, ecologist, zoologist and botanist make.; "Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems" is international in scope, provides an overview of operational applications, and offers experiences in the form of case studies of applications to vegetation, animals, and hydrology. The book is organized into four sections. It - provides an overview of the uses of GIS and RSS in landscape ecology; debates conceptual issues such applications throw up; considers analytical techniques and technical issues; and offers experiences in the form of Case Studies On Plant, Abiotic And Animal Landscape Ecology.
Author : Jeffrey M. Klopatek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461205298
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Landscape Ecological Analysis written by Jeffrey M. Klopatek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth in the field of landscape ecology has included the development of methods and results that can be applied to an impressive range of environmental issues. This book addresses a broad spectrum of political, theoretical and applied aspects that often arise in the design and execution of landscape studies. The concepts of geographical scale and hierarchy arising within the confines of landscape ecology are examined, and a series of techniques are presented to address problems in spatial and temporal analysis. This book will provide the reader with a current perspective on this rapidly evolving science.
Author : László Miklós
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319940244
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Landscape as a Geosystem written by László Miklós and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to socio-economic character) as an integrated natural resource, as society’s life space, as well as an object of planning and decision making on sustainable land use. It presents the landscape properties in the form of databases that comply with the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE – Infrastructure for Spatial InfoRmation in Europe) requirements, which can be used for a variety of purposes and can serve as a national spatial information database for the needs of applied landscape-ecological research and real-world spatial planning processes. The book also provides overview legends with complete domain values of selected attributes of all three landscape structures (primary, secondary and tertiary) routinely used in Slovakia. Lastly, the book offers an example of the construction and mapping of geocomplexes as well as the database creation on the model territory at the regional level.
Author : Sabine Grunwald
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420028189
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling written by Sabine Grunwald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling. It analyzes many recently developed measurement tools, and explains computer-related and pedometric techniques that are invaluable in the modeling process. This volume provi
Author : Marguerite Madden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540862253
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools written by Marguerite Madden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools is the combination of geospatial tools such as remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), geostatistics and geovisualization (e.g., 3D displays, fly throughs, annimation) to analyze landscapes, assess human impacts on earth resources, visualize changes over time and conduct research in landscape ecology. This book truly bridges two broad disciplines, ecology and geography. More specifically, it integrates research and techniques in landscape ecology and geographic information science (GISci) which, in turn, encompasses GIS, remote sensing, GPS, spatial statistics and geovisualization. It is anticipated that this publication will be of interest to a wide audience. Case studies highlight the use of geospatial tools to assess the ecological impacts of human activities and assist in decision making for managers and policy makers.
Author : M. Luc
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319135279
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Landscape Analysis and Planning written by M. Luc and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape planning based on selected studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies presented and discussed during scientific sessions organized by the Commission of Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning of the International Geographical Union (IGU) within the framework of the IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland, August 18-22, 2014. The subject of landscape analysis and landscape planning has been of interest to geographers since the beginning of the twentieth century. This relatively new area of study, which focuses on the landscape resource patches and spatial interconnections, was first introduced as landscape ecology (Landschaftsoekologie) by Carl Troll, one of the twentieth century’s most influential physical geographers. Today, landscape studies involve adopting a holistic view of geographic environments and are closely connected to rapidly developing ecosystem, sustainable landscape and ecosystem services approaches. Modern techniques employing Geographical Information Systems are used to support spatial landscape analyses.
Author : C. Ashton Drew
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441973907
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology written by C. Ashton Drew and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling extent of field surveys and experiments in real landscapes, landscape ecologists must make assumptions about how organisms experience and utilize the landscape. These convenient working postulates allow modelers to project the model in time and space, yet rarely are they explicitly considered. The early years of landscape ecology necessarily focused on the evolution of effective data sources, metrics, and statistical approaches that could truly capture the spatial and temporal patterns and processes of interest. Now that these tools are well established, we reflect on the ecological theories that underpin the assumptions commonly made during species distribution modeling and mapping. This is crucial for applying models to questions of global sustainability. Due to the inherent use of GIS for much of this kind of research, and as several authors’ research involves the production of multicolored map figures, there would be an 8-page color insert. Additional color figures could be made available through a digital archive, or by cost contributions of the chapter authors. Where applicable, would be relevant chapters’ GIS data and model code available through a digital archive. The practice of data and code sharing is becoming standard in GIS studies, is an inherent method of this book, and will serve to add additional research value to the book for both academic and practitioner audiences.
Author : Christopher Pettit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540691685
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Landscape Analysis and Visualisation written by Christopher Pettit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched. Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes. Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as in Australia — where landscapes dominate and their relationship to cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives — perhaps it could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities and never see the landscapes — but it is these that give the country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention in the world threatens its very existence.
Author : Vittorio Ingegnoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540427438
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Landscape Ecology: A Widening Foundation written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. Nonetheless, the question of what is precisely meant by the term landscape ecology'is still unresolved. No doubt, a proper foundation of the discipline must first be cemented. This book develops such a foundation. In doing so it provides all the diverse applications of the discipline with a solid framework and proposes an effective diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape.
Author : Rudolf Krönert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540673996
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment written by Rudolf Krönert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's aim is to present recommendations for sustainable land use and management. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. Future research tendencies are also covered. All methodological approaches are explained with examples from different regions.
Author : Ali A. Nouri
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 373692559X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book GIS-Supported Environmental Assessment for Landscape Planning written by Ali A. Nouri and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of an efficient environmental planning and management system has always been considered as a basic problem towards achieving sustainable development in the Caspian Region, North of Iran. The Caspian forests are a globally and nationally important source of Biodiversity, which face numerous threats. During the past decades, the narrow economic base in the mountainous areas and the very limited opportunities for income generation, as well as increasing population pressures led to over utilization of the natural resources by the rural communities. Additionally, a lack of monitoring and of public participation in forestry as well as in other planning sectors increased illegal activities and overutilization of the natural resources by private enterprises and local people. Soil erosion, accompanied by destructive floods and declining fertility as well as productivity, resulted in severe degradation of natural habitats with negative socio-economic consequences. It is clear that the future development of the region should be conducted in a sustainable manner, in which environmental conservation and protection goals can be achieved in company with socio-economic needs of the society. Since 1980, an environment-based land use planning has been developed from an analogue process to a semiautomated one in which, GIS software and Remote Sensing techniques are used, not only to increase the speed but also the accuracy of the planning process. Although, it has been successfully used as a guideline for spatial planning on both national and regional levels, it could not bring efficient andpractical solutions on the local scale. This may partly be caused by legal and administrative constraints, but it also results – to a large extend – from a purely top-down procedure, which does not facilitate an active participation among all stakeholders in both, planning and implementation phases. As this is the best available national planning system, which has been developed so far, all of the efforts should be focused on the enhancement and improvement of its capabilities by identifying and then removing its weaknesses. To achieve this, a comprehensive literature review is made to find the possibilities and alternatives. It seems that “landscape planning” in the modern German meaning of “Landschaftsplanung” could serve as a very effective tool to improve the current process of land use planning in Iran, especially on the local scale. This study presents an analysis of the landscape management problem in order to detect the immediate and underlying threats to the sustainable utilization of the natural resources, esp. forests, in a sample area (Yakhkesh Mountains) of the Caspian mountainous ecosystem. Using questionnaire method, a community (socio-economic) assessment was conducted to gain the ideas and comments of the villagers and local/national experts about the current management system, its weaknesses and possible solutions to prevent negative social as well as ecological consequences of the forest loss. After collecting and processing the available ecological and socio-economic data, a GIS-based ecological assessment was made using the both Iranian and the German approaches. Some scenarios were developed based on the experiences and results of the past and recent national and international projects across the region. The draft plans were then assessed by both villagers and Iranian experts to finalize the planning scenario. The results revealed that there are many possible solutions to overcome the mentioned problems, which could be presented in an integrated management plan with close cooperation of the all stakeholders. Therefore, an operational mechanism is suggested to use the current development programs in an integrated manner. Although, access to the detailed and up to date data is still a main problem, the available ecological and socio-economic data could be more efficiently used for a participatory nature conservation and landscape management in Iran. This process could be improved through “learn by doing”, which again shows the importance of the implementation and monitoring of the plans that unfortunately remain as a big problem in Iran.
Author : G. Bruce Wiersma
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203495470
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Environmental Monitoring written by G. Bruce Wiersma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current rate and scale of environmental change around the world makes the detection and understanding of these changes increasingly urgent. Subsequently, government legislation is focusing on measurable results of environmental programs, requiring researchers to employ effective and efficient methods for acquiring high-quality data. Envi
Author : Almo Farina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780412730405
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology written by Almo Farina and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents landscape ecology as an integrative and transdisciplinary science with a problem-solving orientation toward land use planning and management. Special reference is made to the conservation, restoration and sustainable development of cultural landscapes. This textbook is presented in a clear and non-technical style with practical examples and many illustrations.
Author : John G. Lyon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575041216
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Wetland Landscape Characterization written by John G. Lyon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to assist scientists, engineers, technicians and other resource managers in the evaluation of wetland boundaries and characteristics. Powerful tools - GIS, mapping, remote sensing - are described and demonstrated using practical applications and combined to yield landscape ecological data, and ecological risk assessments. Using numerous technical methods, Wetland Landscape Characterization shows you how to evaluate the presence of wetlands, and the stressors, exposures and ecological systems - streams, lakes, terrestial - that influence their condition. A vital component of the book is the variety of quality assurance/quality control and accuracy assessment techniques presented throughout the text. A thorough understanding of these methods is critical to the success of your project.
Author : F. Helles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402002779
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Multiple Use of Forests and Other Natural Resources written by F. Helles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises eighteen papers dealing with the theory and application of modern decision-making and management planning of multiple use of forestry and other natural resources in the landscape. Generally, an economic approach is used as implemented by operations research methods, but broader contexts are applied too, e.g. ecosystem management, discounting, preference analysis and policy formulation. The volume is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners in management of forestry and other natural resources.
Author : International Association of Landscape Ecology. UK Region. Meeting
Publisher : Iale(uk)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Landscape Ecology written by International Association of Landscape Ecology. UK Region. Meeting and published by Iale(uk). This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
