Overview
- Presents different approaches to the landscape modeling
- Emphasizes practical applications and provides specific results
- Highlights the local and regional aspects of the changing European landscape
- Presents methodological and terminological diversity
Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 8)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Where the Moral Appeal Meets the Scientific Approach
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Landscape concept in contemporary Europe
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Between Landscapes and Multi-Scale Regions
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Changing Face of a Landscape: Identity and Perception
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Modelling and Geovisualization in Landscape Planning and Management
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About this book
Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing damaged ecosystems on the one hand, and finding effective ways to use the landscape on the other. The discipline has the specific goal of designing and assessing future scenarios of landscape development, while not losing sight of its past history, both ecological and socio-cultural. This book encompasses the interrelated disciplines of geography, landscape ecology and geoinformatics, and by drawing on their theories and methodologies introduces the concept of a living landscape with human action an inseparable part of its evolution. It offers researchers and decision-makers a number of ideas on how our landscape can best be utilized. The content reflects the need for sustainable landscape development, at the same time as considering long-term continuity as a major condition which enables us to maintain the diversity and multifunctionality of landscapes at regional and macro-regional scales. Employing advanced terminology and methods, this book provides specific results especially for scientists and landscape professionals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape Modelling
Book Subtitle: Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios
Editors: Jiří Anděl, Ivan Bičík, Petr Dostál, Zdeněk Lipský, Siamak G. Shahneshin
Series Title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3052-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3051-1Published: 22 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3213-1Published: 28 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3052-8Published: 11 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1877-7139
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1200
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 226
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies