Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Danny Czamanski, Itzhak Benenson, Dan Malkinson

   Pages 1-8

3. The Impact of Land-Use Policy on Urban Fringe Dynamics

   • Eric Koomen, Jasper Dekkers

   Pages 9-35

4. Long-Term Changes in the Configuration of Agriculture and Natural Areas Around Cities in the Netherlands (1900–1990)

   • Erez Hatna, Martha M. Bakker

   Pages 37-49

5. Investigating Land-Use Dynamics at the Periphery of a Fast-Growing City with Cellular Automata at Two Spatial Scales

   • Danielle J. Marceau, Fang Wang, Nishad Wijesekara

   Pages 51-79

6. The Spatial Morphology of Oporto’s Urban Fringe

   • Miguel Serra, Paulo Pinho

   Pages 81-106

7. Vascular Plant Species Richness Patterns in Urban Environments: Case Studies from Hannover, Germany and Haifa, Israel

   • Sarah Matthies, Daniella Kopel, Stefan Rüter, Marina Toger, Rüdiger Prasse, Daniel Czamanski et al.

   Pages 107-118

8. Future Suburban Development and the Environmental Implications of Lawns: A Case Study in New England, USA

   • Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Nick Giner, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Craig Nicolson

   Pages 119-141

9. Land Use-Land Cover Dynamics at the Metropolitan Fringe

   • Daniel Felsenstein, Michal Lichter, Eyal Ashbel, A. Yair Grinberger

   Pages 143-165

10. Lichens and Plants in Urban Environment

    • Gregory E. Insarov, Irina D. Insarova

    Pages 167-193

As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment of landscape dynamics. The first part presents state-of-the-art modelling approaches pertaining to land-use changes entailed by the urban sprawl, at different spatial resolutions and temporal time scales. The second part is dedicated to case studies of the effects and consequences of the emerging urban-agriculture open space patterns.

• Biodiversity
• GIS-based Modeling and Simulation
• Human-Environmental Interaction
• Landscape Dynamics
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Geography and Environmental Studies and The Golan Research Institute, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  Dan Malkinson

• Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  Danny Czamanski

• Department of Geography Human Environment, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Itzhak Benenson

Prof. Daniel Czamanski is an economist specializing in urban spatial dynamics and in energy economics. He is a associate dean for graduate studies and research in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is the director of the city complexity research lab. Czamanski has published a number of books and tens of academic papers. Prof Itzhak Benenson is an expert in geosimulation and agent-based modeling of the complex spatial systems. He is a faculty member and head of the Department of Geography and Human Environment of the Tel Aviv University and the director of the Geosimulation and Spatial Analysis laboratory.

Prof. Itzhak Benenson has published several books and numerous papers on analysis and modeling of the human-driven geographic systems.

Dr. Dan Malkinson is a faculty member at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of Haifa. He is a landscape ecologist and most of his work pertains to the relationships between spatial patterns and ecosystem processes. He studies the effects of disturbances on ecosystem function with specific interest in the effects of landscape disturbances, such as land use changes and wildfire, on ecosystem function.

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