Consequences of Land Use Change
Published on 30. March 2000
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-85312-650-5 (ISBN)
Description
Landscapes are continually changing as a result of human intervention in natural processes. Both intensive and extensive land uses are expressed in the structure of the land, the size of the parcels and the area of natural and semi-natural vegetation that is present. The task facing ecologists, conservationists, planners, decision-makers and others involved with these changes is to find the best methods for maintaining landscape diversity. Representing an important step forward for regional and inter-regional development of integrated landscape ecological research in the field of land use changes, this volume includes discussion of many problems related to this area. The research papers and case studies featured in Consequences of Land Use Changes were originally presented at a symposium which formed part of the Seventh International Congress on Ecology. Further contributions from this symposium are contained in Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes (ISBN: 1-85312-848-1) also published by WIT Press.
Landscapes are continually changing as a result of human intervention in natural processes. Both intensive and extensive land uses are expressed in the structure of the land, the size of the parcels and the area of natural and semi-natural vegetation that is present. The task facing ecologists, conservationists, planners, decision-makers and others involved with these changes is to find the best methods for maintaining landscape diversity. Representing an important step forward for regional and inter-regional development of integrated landscape ecological research in the field of land use changes, this volume includes discussion of many problems related to this area. The research papers and case studies featured in Consequences of Land Use Changes were originally presented at a symposium which formed part of the Seventh International Congress on Ecology. Further contributions from this symposium are contained in Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes (ISBN: 1-85312-848-1) also published by WIT Press.
Landscapes are continually changing as a result of human intervention in natural processes. Both intensive and extensive land uses are expressed in the structure of the land, the size of the parcels and the area of natural and semi-natural vegetation that is present. The task facing ecologists, conservationists, planners, decision-makers and others involved with these changes is to find the best methods for maintaining landscape diversity. Representing an important step forward for regional and inter-regional development of integrated landscape ecological research in the field of land use changes, this volume includes discussion of many problems related to this area. The research papers and case studies featured in Consequences of Land Use Changes were originally presented at a symposium which formed part of the Seventh International Congress on Ecology. Further contributions from this symposium are contained in Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes (ISBN: 1-85312-848-1) also published by WIT Press.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85312-650-5 (9781853126505)
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Content
Contents Main Concepts, Methods and Monitoring: Analysis of the Concept of Landscape Change; Landscape Classification, Scales and Biodiversity in Europe; A Swedish Countryside Survey for Monitoring of Landscape Features, Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage - the LIM Project; Human Attitudes and Industrial Work Activity as Causes of Industrial Impact on Nature - A Methodological Approach to Integrate Ecology into Economic and Social Development; Reference Areas and Dimensions in Landscape Ecology and Application of Evaluation Functions; Sensitivity of Landscapes to Atmospheric Pollution. Consequences of Land Use Changes: Persistence of Landscape Spatial Structure in Conditions of Change in Habitat, Land Use and Actual Vegetation - Vistula Valley Case Study in Central Poland; The Transformation of Landscape Ecological Structure Following the Land Privatisation in Hungary after 1989; Ecological Situation and Land Use Changes in Mongolia; Relationships between Farming Systems and Ecological Patterns Along a Gradient of Bocage Landscapes; Sustainability and the Dartington Estate, Devon (UK) - Conversion of a Famous Experiment in Human Ecology; Multiple-Scale Landscape Ecological Analysis in a Rural Mediterranean Region; A Conceptual Model Relating Ecological Constraints to Livestock Production in Tropical American Seasonal Savannas.