Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security

by Petrosillo, Irene; Muller, Felix; Jones, K. Bruce; Zurlini, Giovanni; Krauze, Kinga

• ISBN13: 9781402065880
• ISBN10: 1402065884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book focuses on the relationship between environmental security and landscape assessment. It is the fruit of experiences incubated during the last five years in the context of the Pilot Study Project on "Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment" sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. The growing knowledge about environmental change, stress, and degradation has increased the visibility of environmental condition as an important determinant of security. The relationship between environment and security now is a common interest among both the scientific and policy-making communities, supported by the fand political sovereignty have been revisited following the changes in the act that the traditional security concepts based on territorial integrity geopolitical landscape at the end of the last century. In this volume, environmental security is described from the viewpoint of landscape sciences. This approach is particularly suitable because landscapes are comprised of the abiotic and biotic ecological structures and processes of an area and their interrelations with the socio-economic component. Written in an accessible style, this book discusses the concept of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives using different approaches and tools typical of landscape assessment.

Table of Contents

Contributions of Landscape Sciences to the Development of Environmental Security	p. 1
Introduction - Environmental Security and Landscape Ecology	p. 19
Landscape Ecology and Environmental Security: basic concepts and regional applications for the Mediterranean in the 21st Century	p. 21
Landscape management for environmental security: some perspectives of adaptive management approaches	p. 43
The policy framework GMES as a guideline for the integration of environmental security research and landscape sciences	p. 57
Introduction - Landscape Science Methodologies to Assess Environmental Security	p. 75
Investigating landscape patterns in protected areas using aster images	p. 77
Quantifying and Qualifying Urban Green by Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Social Science Methods	p. 93
Allometric scaling as an indicator of ecosystem state: a new approach	p. 107
Introduction - Landscape Indicators and Landscape Change Detection	p. 119
Deriving the spatial traits of organized land structures	p. 121
Landscape monitoring as a tool in improving environmental security	p. 131
Landscapes of the natural park "Vepssky Forest"	p. 143
Multi-temporal coastal zone landscape change detection using remote sensing imagery and in situ data	p. 155
Landscape character as a framework for the assessment of environmental change	p. 165
Introduction - Integrated Studies of Catchments and Basins	p. 175
An ecohydrological approach for the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services	p. 177
Environmental quality and landscape-hazard assessment in the Yantra River Basin, Bulgaria	p. 209
The influence of catchment land cover on phosphorus balance for large freshwater systems	p. 225
The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the Pacific Northwest (USA)	p. 237
Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data	p. 263
Introduction - Assessments of Human-Environmental Systems in Landscapes	p. 317
Demographic impacts on landscape change - a conceptual view of global demographic trends	p. 319
Land use impacts of demographic change - lessons from Eastern German urban regions	p. 329
The consequences of demographic change in Rhineland-Palatinate: scenarios of landscape consumption for settlement and transportation areas	p. 345
Landscape, demographic developments, biodiversity, and sustainable land use strategy: a case study on Karaburun Peninsula Izmir, Turkey	p. 357
Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a case study and planning tool for Mulfingen, a municipality in South Germany	p. 369
Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes	p. 383
Fostering ecosystem services' security by both objective and subjective analyses: the case of a natural protected area in Southern Italy	p. 399
Environmental assessing of reindeer herding in changing landscapes on different scales	p. 413
Introduction - Environmental Applications of Landscape Ecological Methods - Impact Assessments	p. 429
The contribution of quality assessment of eroded agricultural soil on hilly-undulating landscapes to sustainable community development	p. 431
Nuclear safety and its impact on the level of environmental security in Ukraine	p. 453
Environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental restoration: the case study of Copsa-Mica area, Romania	p. 461
Landscape approaches to assess environmental security: summary, conclusions, and recommendations	p. 475
List of Project Principal Investigators in the NATO/CCMS Pilot Study on the Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment
List of Project Products for NATO/CCMS Pilot Study on the Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment
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