A Changing World
Challenges for Landscape Research
(Sprache: Englisch)
Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories. This book identifies...
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Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories. This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the 'driving forces' of Landscape Development. the book addresses all of the 'hot topics' in this important area of study and emphasizes major contemporary trends in these fields.
Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the course of its history, various societal, technological and philosophical stimuli have shaped Landscape Research, e.g. the declaration of Landscape Ecology in the 1930s and contemporary global technological and societal developments.
Modern landscape research presently uses mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories from ecology, physics, geography, social science and so on. Knowledge is thus updated and quantified via models that are used for estimation, hypothesis testing, prediction and assessment of scenarios. Advances in the computational sciences (e.g. fast computers and vast array of software), space science (e.g. remote sensing) and biological sciences (e.g. genetics) as well as new perspectives in the social sciences play important roles. Research findings are implemented in conservation management, urban planning and global change mitigation strategies.
This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the 'driving forces' of Landscape Development. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview of all fields of Landscape Research, the book addresses 'hot topics' emphasizing major contemporary trends in these fields.
Modern landscape research presently uses mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories from ecology, physics, geography, social science and so on. Knowledge is thus updated and quantified via models that are used for estimation, hypothesis testing, prediction and assessment of scenarios. Advances in the computational sciences (e.g. fast computers and vast array of software), space science (e.g. remote sensing) and biological sciences (e.g. genetics) as well as new perspectives in the social sciences play important roles. Research findings are implemented in conservation management, urban planning and global change mitigation strategies.
This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the 'driving forces' of Landscape Development. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview of all fields of Landscape Research, the book addresses 'hot topics' emphasizing major contemporary trends in these fields.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „A Changing World “
1. Change and transformation2. Value systems
2.1 Drivers of human-landscape interactions
2.2 The role of value systems
3. Analysis of landscape patterns
3.1 Collection and sharing
3.2 Modern remote sensing for environmental monitoring
3.3 Identifying and quantifying landscape patterns in space and time
3.4 Space and place
4. Analyzing landscape processes
4.1 Analysis of environmental time series
4.2 On selected issues and challenges in dendroclimatology
4.3 Using the past to understand the present land use and land cover
4.4 Essay on the study of the vegetation process
4.5 Landscape permeability
4.6 Integrating population genetics with landscape ecology
5. Modeling landscape processes
5.1 Up-scaling of biological properties and mechanisms
5.2 Dynamic spatio-temporal landscape models
5.3 Statistical analysis of landscape data
6. Reaching the limits of present systems control
6.1 The meaning of "Landscape"
6.2 Altering space with new technologies?
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2007, 296 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Kienast, Felix; Wildi, Otto; Ghosh, Sucharita
- Herausgegeben: Felix Kienast, Sucharita Ghosh, Otto Wildi
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 1402044348
- ISBN-13: 9781402044342
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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From the reviews:"This latest book in Springer's Landscape Series looks at some of the emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research. ... Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team, this collection provides a valuable reference for researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological modeling, and related fields." (Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment, 2007)"This book ... provides the scientific community with some eye-opening material by including the importance of social dimensions in the dominant view of modern landscape ecology in North America. ... In conclusion, I found this book very stimulating and valuable for landscape researchers, students and practitioners. I foresee that this text will play an important role in the history of landscape ecology, just like those of pioneer ecologists in the first half of the twentieth century." (Jiquan Chen, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 23, 2008)"'A Changing World, Challenges for Landscape Research,' ... includes a collection of contemporary hot topics currently studied by Swiss landscape ecologists. ... The book contains papers that address frontier research issues as well as reviews of basic concepts and theories of landscape ecology. In general, the papers are of very good quality and the topics are worthy of publication. ... I can recommend this book to both researchers and students in landscape ecology." (Hong S. He, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 23, 2008)
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