Modelling Environmental Dynamics
Advances in Geomatic Solutions
Editors: Paegelow, Martin, Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa (Eds.)
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Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental and complex dynamics. Based on this introduction this book illustrates various models applied to a large variety of themes: deforestation in tropical regions, fire risk, natural reforestation in European mountains, agriculture, biodiversity, urbanism, climate change and land management for decision support, etc. These case studies, provided by a large international spectrum of researchers and presented in a uniform structure, focus particularly on methods and model validation so that this book is not only aimed at researchers and graduates but also at professionals.
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Advances in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics
Pages 3-54
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Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios
Pages 57-76
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Tropical deforestation modelling: comparative analysis of different predictive approaches. The case study of Peten, Guatemala
Pages 77-107
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Evaluation of prospective modelling methods: fuzzy logics and cellular automaton applied to deforestation in Venezuela
Pages 109-139
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Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes
Pages 141-167
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Modelling Environmental Dynamics
- Book Subtitle
- Advances in Geomatic Solutions
- Editors
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- Martin Paegelow
- María Teresa Camacho Olmedo
- Series Title
- Environmental Science
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-68498-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-68498-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-68489-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-08805-6
- Series ISSN
- 1431-6250
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 390
- Number of Illustrations
- 105 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
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