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  • Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice

    Edited by Eric Koomen, Judith Borsboom-van Beurden ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model, which has been used in spatial planning for well over a decade. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for trend extrapolation, scenario studies and optimization, yet can also be employed in a smaller-scale regional context ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    “The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

    Pattern and Process

    by Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models

    by Denise Pumain, Romain Reuillon ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition” that has totally transformed the way we inhabit the planet is globally understood in its socio-economic ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Visualizing Sustainable Planning

    Edited by Gerhard Steinebach, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Hans Hagen ...
    Series series X.media.publishing
    we are a part of, the current discussions of global recession in the media alerts us to the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated, and hyper-complex socio-economic-ecological system is d- ficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics

    Edited by Dan Malkinson, Itzhak Benenson, Danny Czamanski ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment of landscape dynamics. The first part presents state-of-the-art modelling approaches pertaining to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • GeoComputational Analysis and Modeling of Regional Systems

    Edited by Jean-Claude Thill, Suzana Dragicevic ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of regional contexts. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos

    Edited by Satoshi Yokoyama, Kohei Okamoto, Isao Hirota, Chisato Takenaka ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development and urbanization have progressed, and people’s livelihoods are about to change significantly. Compared ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Plants and Habitats of European Cities

    Edited by John G. Kelcey, Norbert Müller ...
    A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning, design, and management. ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Urban Water Trajectories

    Edited by Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD