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Landscape Analysis and Visualisation

Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Christopher Pettit

    1. Department of Primary Industries, Parkville, Australia

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  2. William Cartwright

    1. RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

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  3. Ian Bishop

    1. Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  4. Kim Lowell

    1. Department of Primary Industries, Parkville, Australia

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  5. David Pullar

    1. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

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  6. David Duncan

    1. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Australia

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  • Offers buyers comprehensive detail of a broad spectrum of new technologies and approaches in understanding and visualising landscape change through the combination of GIS, 3D visualisation and knowledge management frameworks and tools
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Understanding Landscapes through Knowledge Management Frameworks, Spatial Models, Decision Support Tools and Visualisation

      • Christopher Pettit, William Cartwright, Ian Bishop, Kim Lowell, David Pullar, David Duncan
      Pages 3-16

  3. Natural Resource Knowledge Management Frameworks and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Reading between the Lines: Knowledge for Natural Resource Management

      • Richard MacEwan
      Pages 19-27

    3. Improving the Use of Science in Evidencebased Policy: Some Victorian Experiences in Natural Resource Management

      • Kimberley J Dripps, Martin Bluml
      Pages 29-48

    4. The Catchment Analysis Tool: Demonstrating the Benefits of Interconnected Biophysical Models

      • Anna Weeks, Brendan Christy, Kim Lowell, Craig Beverly
      Pages 49-71

    5. The Application of a Simple Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell to Natural Resource Management Decision Making

      • Robert G Lesslie, Michael J Hill, Patricia Hill, Hamish P Cresswell, Steve Dawson
      Pages 73-95

    6. Platform for Environmental Modelling Support: a Grid Cell Data Infrastructure for Modellers

      • Tai Chan, Craig Beverly, Sam Ebert, Nichola Garnett, Adam Lewis, Christopher Pettit et al.
      Pages 97-117

  4. Integrating the Ecology of Landscapes into Landscape Analysis and Visualisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Looking at Landscapes for Biodiversity: Whose View Will Do?

      • F Patrick Smith
      Pages 121-138

    3. Native Vegetation Condition: Site to Regional Assessments

      • Andre Zerger, Philip Gibbons, Julian Seddon, Garth Warren, Mike Austin, Paul Ryan
      Pages 139-157

    4. Towards Adaptive Management of Native Vegetation in Regional Landscapes

      • David H Duncan, Brendan A Wintle
      Pages 159-182

    5. Revegetation and the Significance of Timelags in Provision of Habitat Resources for Birds

      • Peter A Vesk, Ralph Mac Nally, James R Thomson, Gregory Horrocks
      Pages 183-209

    6. The Application of Genetic Markers to Landscape Management

      • Paul Sunnucks, Andrea C Taylor
      Pages 211-233

    7. Scenario Analysis with Performance Indicators: a Case Study for Forest Linkage Restoration

      • David V Pullar, David Lamb
      Pages 235-250

  5. Socioeconomic Dimensions to Landscapes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving Social–Ecological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions

      • David J Brunckhorst, Ian Reeve, Phil Morley, Karl Bock
      Pages 253-275

    3. Placing People at the Centre of Landscape Assessment

      • Patricia J Fitzsimons, Donald Cherry
      Pages 277-304

    4. The Social Landscapes of Rural Victoria

      • Neil Barr
      Pages 305-325
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Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched. Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes. Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as in Australia — where landscapes dominate and their relationship to cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives — perhaps it could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities and never see the landscapes — but it is these that give the country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention in the world threatens its very existence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Primary Industries, Parkville, Australia

    Christopher Pettit, Kim Lowell

  • RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

    William Cartwright

  • Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Ian Bishop

  • The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

    David Pullar

  • Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, Australia

    David Duncan

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