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Mapping Wilderness

Concepts, Techniques and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Stephen J. Carver

    1. University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  2. Steffen Fritz

    1. Ecosystem Services and Mgmt, Int’l Inst Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

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  • commissioned chapters aim to cover the role of large intact natural areas in
  • modern conservation (systems, people, communities, resilience, ecosystem
  • services, large scale processes, connectivity, etc.)
  • Chapters organised into concepts, techniques and applications
  • Provides an overview of GIS and related technologies in the mapping and modelling of wilderness and wild land environments across a range of spatial scales

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen J. Carver, Steffen Fritz
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Wilderness Continuum Concept and Its Application in Australia: Lessons for Modern Conservation

    • Rob Lesslie
    Pages 17-33

  4. Connectivity, Networks, Cores and Corridors

    • Roger D. J. Catchpole
    Pages 35-54

  5. The Use of Spatial Technology in United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Wilderness Recreation Site Surveys

    • Lisa K. Machnik, Justin Ewer, Jonathan Erickson
    Pages 55-68

  6. Wild Vistas: Progress in Computational Approaches to ‘Viewshed’ Analysis

    • Neil Sang
    Pages 69-87

  7. Mapping Human Impact Using Crowdsourcing

    • Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Christoph Perger, Christian Schill, Franziska Albrecht, Ian McCallum et al.
    Pages 89-101

  8. Visualising Spaces of Global Inaccessibility

    • Benjamin D. Hennig
    Pages 103-116

  9. Addressing Weak Legal Protection of Wilderness: Deliberate Choices and Drawing Lines on the Map

    • Kees Bastmeijer
    Pages 117-136

  10. Unraveling the Coil of the Wild: Geospatial Technology and Wilderness

    • Mark L. Douglas, William T. Borrie
    Pages 137-144

  11. Wilderness Areas in Romania: A Case Study on the South Western Carpathians

    • Dragoş Ştefan Măntoiu, Marius Costin Nistorescu, Ionuţ Cosmin Şandric, Ionuţ Cornel Mirea, Adrian Hăgătiş, Erika Stanciu
    Pages 145-156

  12. Purism Scale Approach for Wilderness Mapping in Iceland

    • Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, Micael Runnström
    Pages 157-176

  13. Is There Something Wild in Austria?

    • Christoph Plutzar, Karin Enzenhofer, Flora Hoser, Michael Zika, Bernhard Kohler
    Pages 177-189

  14. Concluding Remarks

    • Stephen J. Carver, Steffen Fritz
    Pages 191-200

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-204
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Stephen J. Carver

  • Ecosystem Services and Mgmt, Int’l Inst Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

    Steffen Fritz

About the editors

Steve Carver

Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Steffen Fritz

Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mapping Wilderness

  • Book Subtitle: Concepts, Techniques and Applications

  • Editors: Stephen J. Carver, Steffen Fritz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7399-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7397-3Published: 19 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1342-7Published: 31 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7399-7Published: 09 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography

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