Overview
- Compiles the most up-to-date landscape approaches and tools useful for the assessment of environmental security, a worldwide issue of social, economic, environmental and institutional importance
- Contributes to a new perspective of the environmental security combining subjective and objective assessment of environmental risk in the context of social-ecological landscapes
- Identifies the actual main driving forces (demography, land-use, industry) that can threat environmental security at local, national and international scale
- Introduces the new concept of "securability"
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (29 papers)
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Introduction – Environmental Security and Landscape Ecology
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Introduction – Landscape Science Methodologies to Assess Environmental Security
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Introduction – Landscape Indicators and Landscape Change Detection
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Introduction – Integrated Studies of Catchments and Basins
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security
Editors: Irene Petrosillo, Felix Müller, K. Bruce Jones, Giovanni Zurlini, Kinga Krauze, Sergey Victorov, Bai-Lian Li, … William G. Kepner
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6594-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6588-0Published: 02 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6589-7Published: 02 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6594-1Published: 24 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 497
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Regional/Spatial Science, Nature Conservation