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Modelling Landscape Dynamics Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity
This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics.It is systematically shown how...
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Modelling Landscape Resilience
Modelling landscape resilience requires suitable formulas for describing landscape (de)stabilization processes after stochastic disturbance. A...
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Modelling Landscape Sustainability
Beginning with the Verhulst model, it is shown how sustainability models can be useful to landscape analysis. Consequently, landscape sustainability...
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Assessment of the Influence of Spatial Scale and Type of Land Cover on Urban Landscape Pattern Analysis Using Landscape Metrics
Landscape metrics are widely used to measure the spatial pattern of landscapes. However, there are important gaps in their application. For instance,...
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Lednica Landscape Park—A Geoarchaeological Landscape in Central Wielkopolska
This chapter presents the Lednica Landscape Park as an example of distinct transformations of natural lowland relief that resulted from long-term,...
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Dynamical Systems Modelling of Landscape Transformations
Three deterministic models of landscape dynamics are presented here: a linear regression model, a transition matrix and, for first time, an analytic...
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Modelling Nonlinear and Complex Landscape Dynamics
The nonlinear model of ODE (ordinary differential equations) describing landscape change is introduced as a next step after the linear ODE model has...
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Landscape ecological risk assessment and its driving factors in the Weihe River basin, China
Weihe River basin is of great significance to analyze the changes of land use pattern and landscape ecological risk and to improve the ecological...
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Theoretical conceptions for a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to contemporary landscape
In recent years the concept of landscape has undergone rapid expansion. This expansion, however, has not been accompanied by a parallel development...
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Map** Relations Transformation of Urban and Natural Landscape in Adriatic Cities Fostering Landscape Sustainability and Promoting Landscape Quality as Spatial Planning Objectives
The understanding of urban and natural landscape relation as a multidimensional process integrates spatial, functional, and perceptive dimensions,...
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Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape
The preoccupation with the relationship between landscape and aesthetics has now produced a large number of publications. The positions represented...
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Landscape Pattern Language A New Approach to Landscape Expression and Spatial Reasoning
This book presents a landscape pattern language framework for describing landscape spaces and offers a new approach to landscape expression and...
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Spatial Monte Carlo Simulation and Analysis of Climate Change Enhanced Fire and Projected Landscape-Scale Variation in Vegetation Heterogeneity
There is rising management concern regarding future increases in high-severity fire, conversion of conifer forests to shrublands and grasslands, and...
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Landscape Theory Approaches—The Theory of Three Landscapes and Neopragmatic Landscape Research
Our investigation is based on two landscape theoretical approaches building on each other, namely the three landscapes theory based on Karl Popper’s...
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Landscape values of large-scale civic infrastructure from visitors’ spatial perception: a content analysis
Many studies have investigated the improvement and evaluation of urban landscape development. However, only a few have discussed how to implement and...
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Exploring the response of ecosystem services to landscape change: A case study from eastern Qinghai province
The degradation of ecosystem structure and function on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the result of a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors,...
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Stochastic Models of Complex Landscape Dynamics
Τhe impact of environmental fluctuations induced on a landscape can be described by stochastic models. By extending nonlinear landscape dynamics to...
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Landscape Stability, Instability and Civilization Collapse
Aside of the mathematical notions of stability which is briefly introduced here, the landscape-ecological approach to landscape stability is distinct...
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Landscape Developments
This chapter turns to the landscape as a “link”. A focus on “landscape developments” makes it possible to associate and conceptualise together...
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Landscape Evolution of the Central Negev
This chapter presents the main features composing the Central Negev landscape and discusses their origin and evolution. The present landscape...