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Landscape Modelling

Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Where the Moral Appeal Meets the Scientific Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Weeping Landscape

      • Siamak G. Shahneshin
      Pages 3-10
  3. Landscape concept in contemporary Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Present Changes in European Rural Landscapes

      • Zdeněk Lipský
      Pages 13-27
    3. Environmental Stressors as an Integrative Approach to Landscape Assessment

      • Jiří Anděl, Martin Balej, Tomáš Oršulák
      Pages 29-42
  4. Between Landscapes and Multi-Scale Regions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Cross-Border Relationships of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

      • Hartmut Kowalke, Olaf Schmidt, Katja Lohse, Milan Jeřábek
      Pages 61-70
    3. Land-Use Changes Along the Iron Curtain in Czechia

      • Ivan Bičík, Jan Kabrda, Jiří Najman
      Pages 71-85
    4. Landscape Function Transformations with Relation to Land-Use Changes

      • Ivan Bičík, Jiří Anděl, Martin Balej
      Pages 87-103
  5. Changing Face of a Landscape: Identity and Perception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Memory of a Landscape – A Constituent of Regional Identity and Planning?

      • Martin Balej, Pavel Raška, Jiří Anděl, Alena Chvátalová
      Pages 107-121
    3. Landscape Change in the Seewinkel: Comparisons Among Centuries

      • Martin A. Prinz, Thomas Wrbka, Karl Reiter
      Pages 123-132
  6. Modelling and Geovisualization in Landscape Planning and Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Does Landscape Structure Reveal Ecological Sustainability?

      • Christa Renetzeder, Thomas Wrbka, Sander Mücher, Michiel van Eupen, Michiel Kiers
      Pages 159-170
    3. Landscape Approaches and GIS for Biodiversity Management

      • Stefan Schindler, Kostas Poirazidis, Aristotelis Papageorgiou, Dionisios Kalivas, Henrik Von Wehrden, Vassiliki Kati
      Pages 171-182
    4. Relief for Models of Natural Phenomena

      • Jana Svobodová, Vít Voženílek
      Pages 183-196

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • in Ústí nad Labem, Department of Geography, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    Jiří Anděl

  • Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Ivan Bičík, Petr Dostál

  • Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Lipský

  • , Interdisciplinary Office for Design,, SHAGAL/iodaa, Kusnacht-Zurich, Switzerland

    Siamak G. Shahneshin

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Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
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