Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Contributions of Landscape Sciences to the Development of Environmental Security....Pages 1-17
Landscape Ecology and Environmental Security: basic concepts and regional applications for the Medit....Pages 21-42
Landscape management for environmental security: some perspectives of adaptive management approaches....Pages 43-56
The policy framework GMES as a guideline for the integration of environmental security research and landscape sciences....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Investigating landscape patterns in protected areas using aster images....Pages 77-92
Quantifying and Qualifying Urban Green by Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Social Science Method....Pages 93-105
Allometric scaling as an indicator of ecosystem state: a new approach....Pages 107-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-120
Deriving the spatial traits of organized land structures....Pages 121-130
Landscape monitoring as a tool in improving environmental security....Pages 131-141
Landscapes of the natural park “Vepssky Forest”....Pages 143-154
Multi-temporal coastal zone landscape change detection using remote sensing imagery and in situ data....Pages 155-164
Landscape character as a framework for the assessment of environmental change....Pages 165-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-176
An ecohydrological approach for the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services....Pages 177-207
Environmental quality and landscape-hazard assessment in the Yantra River Basin, Bulgaria....Pages 209-224
The influence of catchment land cover on phosphorus balance for large freshwater systems....Pages 225-235
The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the pacific northwest (USA)....Pages 237-261
Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data....Pages 263-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-318
Demographic impacts on landscape change – a conceptual view of global demographic trends....Pages 319-328
Land use impacts of demographic change – lessons from Eastern German urban regions....Pages 329-344
The consequences of demographic change in Rhineland-Palatinate: scenarios of landscape consumption for settlement and transportation areas....Pages 345-356
Front Matter....Pages 317-318
Landscape, demographic developments, biodiversity, and sustainable land use strategy: a case study on karaburun peninsula izmir, turkey....Pages 357-368
Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a Case Study and planning tool for mulfingen, a municipality in South Germany....Pages 369-381
Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes....Pages 383-398
Fostering ecosystem services’ security by both objective and subjective analyses: the case of a natural protected area in Southern Italy....Pages 399-411
Environmental assessing of reindeer herding in changing landscapes on different scales....Pages 413-427
Front Matter....Pages 429-430
The contribution of quality assessment of eroded agricultural soil on hilly-undulating landscapes to sustainable community development....Pages 431-451
Nuclear safety and its impact on the level of environmental security in Ukraine....Pages 453-459
Environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental restoration: the case study of Copşa-Mică area, romania....Pages 461-474
Landscape approaches to assess environmental security: summary, conclusions, and recommendations....Pages 475-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-497