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Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment
This volume gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, a young, but interesting and very important transdisciplinary science which aims to solve complex enviromental problems. Both the theoretical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered. The book addresses all those interested in ecological issues from landscape planners, managers, biologists and geographers to colleges, universitites, local authorities and the public in general. Among the themes are the roots of landscape ecology, problems of scale and dimension, landscape balance with a special focus on the impact of land use changes on water and material fluxes, and how to develop land use variants supporting sustainable development. In order to reach these objectives tools such as remote sensing and information systems are presented.
Landscape Assessment Targets -- History of Landscape Assessment -- Data Bases, Data Organization and Data Processing -- Research of State and Dynamics in Landscape Using Remote Sensing Methods -- Scales and Spatial Dimensions in Landscape Research -- Landscape Balance -- Methods of Landscape Assessment -- Integration of Landscape Assessment Methods in Spatial Planning-Processes as Base for Sustainable Development -- State and Tendencies of Landscape Development.
edited by Rudolf Krönert, Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk.