A Changing World : Challenges for Landscape Research
- Author
- Felix Kienast, Otto Wildi, Sucharita Ghosh
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Medical Science
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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
Keywords: Biomedical and life sciences / Driving forces / Modeling / Remote sensing/GIS Statistics Vegetation / Biodiversity / Development / Ecology / Environment
