Overview
- Hot topics, i.e. landscape research to break new grounds in 10-15 years, rather than completeness
- Paradigms of driving forces and value systems as determinants for landscape development to guide the reader through the book, decisive for the selection of examples
- Multidisciplinarity: landscapes are treated as cultural product and not merely as spatio-temporal products of abiotic and biological factors
- Holistic nature of landscape research rather than landscape ecology as discipline
- Illustrations of theoretical concepts
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 8)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Change and Transformation: A Synthesis
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Value Systems – Major Drivers of Landscape Dynamics
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Ecological Observations and Processes
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Spatial Pattern Recognition, Time Series Analysis and Dynamic Modeling
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Changing World
Book Subtitle: Challenges for Landscape Research
Editors: Felix Kienast, Otto Wildi, Sucharita Ghosh
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4436-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4434-2Published: 06 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2390-2Published: 05 March 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4436-6Published: 16 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 296
Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Environmental Management