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Author : Geoff Groom
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9789289306089
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Strategic Landscape Monitoring for the Nordic Countries written by Geoff Groom and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Groom
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289312106
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Strategic Landscape Monitoring And Information written by Geoff Groom and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nelson Rangel-Buitrago
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319788787
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Coastal Scenery written by Nelson Rangel-Buitrago and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an easy to apply methodology to determine the scenic value of a coast. As one of the most critical aspects of beach user choice, the determination of coastal area scenic quality is of primordial importance. This book is, therefore, an extremely useful tool for any coastal lovers, being them users, teachers, researchers, or managers. In particular, this work is the first book to present a semi-quantitative analysis of coastal scenery based on more than 4,000 interviews about people’s desired coastal imaginary. Twenty-six parameters can be used to identify any coastal scene, which have then been sub-divided into five attribute categories, weighted and subjected to fuzzy logic mathematics to obtain a decision number (D). This number D represents the coastal scenery at that point, and Five D classes are then presented (from I-excellent, to V-poor). Heritage areas, like National Parks should lie in Class I, which infers top scenic quality. Over a time span of a decade or so, the authors of this book have assessed more than 900 global locations using the technique given in this book. One of the main aims of this method is to point out how scenic areas may be improved by judicious intervention relating to parameters, mainly anthropogenic, chosen for assessment. The content of this book opens perspectives for analysis of the potential for coastal tourism development in natural areas and for landscape quality improvement in current coastal tourist developed areas. “In a very comprehensive way, this book reviews the main concepts about coastal scenery and through the vast global work experience of the authors, presents different methodologies, as well as introducing a novel methodology, using parameter weightings and fuzzy logic mathematics.” Carlos Pereira da Silva, CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal “Our lives will be greatly enriched by finding beauty, but we can use help in defining the many ways beauty can be manifested. This book can help us by informing us of the ways landscapes can be viewed and described from many viewpoints to place our own understanding in better perspective.” Karl Nordstrom, Geography Department, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA “How do we define and quantify a coast’s scenic value? This is the book. It begins by defining coastal scenery, then reviews the approaches to quantifying it, followed by a new fuzzy logic approach and examples. It finishes with a chapter on how to manage these attractive landscapes, many of which are being overrun and ruined by development. This is a must read for researchers who wish to evaluate and managers who wish to maintain this valuable yet intangible coastal resource.” Andrew Short, Coastal Studies Unit, Sydney University, Australia
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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264040854
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD Countries Since 1990 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, up to date and internationally comparable data on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries.
Author : Marc Antrop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9402411836
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Landscape Perspectives written by Marc Antrop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.
Author : Jan Feranec
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 131535554X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book European Landscape Dynamics written by Jan Feranec and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four unique pan-European CORINE Land Cover datasets—CLC1990, CLC2000, CLC2006, and CLC2012— and three datasets concerning changes between 1990 and 2012 have presented the first-ever opportunity to observe the European landscape by means of land cover and its change. This book brings together all these datasets to demonstrate the methods of identification, analysis and assessment of the European land cover and its changes that took place during the intervals of 1990–2000, 2000–2006, and 2006–2012. It provides examples in which CLC data plays a role in offering solutions to European environmental problems such as the monitoring of urban dynamics, land fragmentation, ecosystems mapping and assessment, and high nature value farmland characteristics. Existing environmental problems require new approaches, and European Landscape Dynamics: CORINE Land Cover Data indicates a set of outlooks for CLC data generation that produce more detailed levels of analysis and bottom-up approaches while addressing the relationship of CLC data to the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE). It also discusses the future of CLC data generation. A valuable resource of up-to-date information, it is useful to professionals such as scientists, territorial planners, and environmentalists as well as students of geosciences and all those who are interested in cognition of the European landscape, its changes and development.
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Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289313234
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Monitoring Outdoor Recreation in the Nordic and Baltic Countries written by and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2006-06-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final report of the project "Visitor Monitoring Methods in the Nordic and Baltic Countries". The goal of the project was to develop visitor monitoring methodologies for Nordic and Baltic land management agencies, the work of which is related to visitor management in protected and recreational areas. The report provides an overview of the visitor monitoring methods and guidelines currently available, including state-of-the-art reports and case studies from the Nordic and Baltic countries. The report concludes that there are certain common variables related to monitoring outdoor recreation that are important to all the Nordic and Baltic countries and that could be standardized. Therefore, the project group continues its work in order to produce recommendations for a common visitor monitoring methodology in protected and recreational areas in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. These recommendations will be published in the form of a Nordic-Baltic manual on visitor monitoring practices.
Author : Karsten Jorgensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317413601
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Mainstreaming Landscape through the European Landscape Convention written by Karsten Jorgensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Landscape Convention has introduced a Europe-wide concept of protection, management and planning of all landscapes – not just the outstanding ones. This book reflects on the background to the establishment of the convention, takes a critical look at examples and experiences of its implementation, and discusses future developments for the convention and the management of landscapes in Europe. A decade after the creation of the European Landscape Convention, this book asks how it has influenced the governance and development of European landscapes, and what role it will play in the coming years. The authors provide a wide range of analyses, reflections and visions, informed by their diverse experiences of researching, working with and using the convention. The sixteen essays are organised into three sections, focusing on the fundamental concepts and values behind the convention, current projects and experiences of implementation, and prospects for future developments.
Author : Hannes Palang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402014376
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Landscape Interfaces written by Hannes Palang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued across the Baltic to Tartu, Estonia, in JUly. The papers presented at the workshop have been supported by invited contributions that address a wider range of the cultural heritage management issues and research interfaces required to study cultural landscapes. The book focuses on landscape interfaces. Both the ones we find out there in the landscape and the ones we face while doing research. We hope that this book helps if not to make use of these interfaces, then at least to map them and bridge some of the gaps between them. The editors wish to thank those people helping us to assemble this collection. First of all our gratitude goes to the authors who contributed to the book. We would like to thank Marc Antrop, Mats Widgren, Roland Gustavsson, Marion Pots chin, Barbel Tress, Tiina Peil, Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann for their quick and helpful advice, opinions and comments during the different stages of editing. Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann together with Piret Pungas - thank you for technical help.
Author : Ola Ahlqvist
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482237407
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Land Use and Land Cover Semantics written by Ola Ahlqvist and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental Context Focused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC. Developed by a team of experts bridging relevant areas related to the subject (LULC studies, ontology, semantic uncertainty, information science, and earth observation), this book encourages effective and critical uses of LULC data and considers practical contexts where LULC semantics can play a vital role. The book includes work on conceptual and technological semantic practices, including but not limited to categorization; the definition of criteria for sets and their members; metadata; documentation for data reuse; ontology logic restrictions; reasoning from text sources; and explicit semantic specifications, ontologies, vocabularies, and design patterns. It also includes use cases from applicable semantics in searches, LULC classification, spatial analysis and visualization, issues of Big Data, knowledge infrastructures and their organization, and integration of bottom-up and top-down approaches to collaboration frameworks and interdisciplinary challenges such as EarthCube. This book: Centers on the link between planning goals, objectives, and policy and land use classification systems Uses examples of maps and databases to draw attention to the problems of semantic integration of land use/cover data Discusses the principles used in a categorization Explores the origins and impacts of semantic variation using the example of land cover Examines how crowd science and human perceptions can be used to improve the quality of land cover datasets, and more Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects offers an up-to-date account of land use/land cover semantics, looks into aspects of semantic data modeling, and discusses current approaches, ongoing developments, and future trends. The book provides guidance to anyone working with land use or land cover data, looking to harmonize categories, repurpose data, or otherwise develop or use LULC datasets.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]
ISBN 13 : 9251386374
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The land characterization meta-language written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a clear relationship between land cover (LC) and land use (LU). [Author] In fact, many existing LU classifications are based on LC information and vice versa. [Author] In practice, in many instances LC and LU concepts are so closely interrelated that often the meaning of terms becomes interchangeable. [Author] The description of a portion of land includes both LC and LU information (described as the biophysical land components and the human activities that shape and/or modify them). [Author] In a modern and efficient system, one cannot substitute one for the other. [Author] However, the two are and must be well separated concepts. [Author] Therefore, an effective and functional relationship between LC and LU needs to be established formally. [Author] This publication attempts to show this relationship. [Author] The title, and characterization meta-language, is used in this paper to represent the combination of the description of the terms LC and LU. [Author] The land characterization meta-language includes both LC and LU and the bridging relationships between them. [Author] The land characterization meta-language schema follows the premise that an effective and functional LC and LU relationship can be built only with a change of paradigm creating a unified modelling language schema based on the three-way relationship between the biophysical cover, the activities being performed and the functions to which the land is devoted at a point in time. [Author]
Author : Chandra P. Giri
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420070754
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover written by Chandra P. Giri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of how remote sensing can be used for land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring from the local to the global scale. With contributions by leading scientists from aro
Author : Jesper Brandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853129346
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Multifunctional Landscapes written by Jesper Brandt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes on the subject of multifunctional landscapes highlights the monitoring of multifunctional terrestrial landscapes, biodiversity versus landscpae diversity in multifunctional landscapes, and complexity of landscape management.
Author : Claudia Cassatella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940070366X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Landscape Indicators written by Claudia Cassatella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years EU policy towards the ‘landscape’ has become better defined, whereas at the same time the notion of ‘landscape’ itself remains elusive. The need for indicators to evaluate and monitor the effects of landscape policies and plans is urgent. What is more, landscape is one of the components considered in environmental reporting, but unlike air, soil, or water, it is difficult to measure using quantitative methods. With studies on landscape indicators being as rare as they are, this volume is an attempt to fill the gap, dealing as it does with the definition and use of specific indicators for landscape assessment and monitoring. To tackle the diverse dimensions of the landscape (whose complexity is well known), the subject is approached by a multidisciplinary team of experts in landscape ecology, landscape history, landscape perception, regional planning, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment procedures, and multi-criteria assessment methods. Individual chapters include comparative assessments of studies conducted thus far in the EU, as well as detailed analyses of ecological, historical, perceptive, land-use, and economic ways of looking at landscape. As well as providing a rich source of references for researchers studying the landscape from a variety of perspectives, the book will be required reading for European officials involved at any level in planning or assessing the landscape or environment.
Author : Ülo Mander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Development of European Landscapes written by Ülo Mander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Methods for Integrated Monitoring in the Nordic Countries written by and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
