A Changing World : Challenges for Landscape Research

Felix Kienast

ISBN 10: 1402044348 / ISBN 13: 9781402044342

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the course of its history, various societal, technological and philosophical stimuli have shaped Landscape Research, e.g. the declaration of Landscape Ecology in the 1930s and contemporary global technological and societal developments.Modern landscape research presently uses mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories from ecology, physics, geography, social science and so on. Knowledge is thus updated and quantified via models that are used for estimation, hypothesis testing, prediction and assessment of scenarios. Advances in the computational sciences (e.g. fast computers and vast array of software), space science (e.g. remote sensing) and biological sciences (e.g. genetics) as well as new perspectives in the social sciences play important roles. Research findings are implemented in conservation management, urban planning and global change mitigation strategies.This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the 'driving forces' of Landscape Development. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview of all fields of Landscape Research, the book addresses 'hot topics' emphasizing major contemporary trends in these fields.

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• Titolo: A Changing World : Challenges for Landscape Research
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1402044348
• ISBN 13: 9781402044342
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories. This book identifies emerging fields and new challenges that are discussed within the framework of the ‘driving forces’ of Landscape Development. the book addresses all of the ‘hot topics’ in this important area of study and emphasizes major contemporary trends in these fields.

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Written primarily for researchers and advanced students in environmental and social sciences, this latest book in Springer s Landscape Series looks at some of the emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research. These include:

• the role of value systems in perceiving, appreciating, and managing landscapes
• the space and place concept in landscape research
• GIS and remote sensing techniques for gathering and processing spatially and temporally explicit land cover, vegetation, and land use data
• methods of landscape history
• landscape genetics and genetic methods to test landscape connectivity and dispersal of plant and animal species
• palaeoclimatic research, with focus on tree ring based temperature reconstructions
• landscape patterns, processes and model up-scaling
• statistical methods for environmental time series and other observations

Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers in landscape ecology, landscape perception, conservation biology, ecological modeling, statistics in the environmental sciences and related fields.