Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security

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

• ISBN13: 9781402065897
• ISBN10: 1402065892
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Foreword

Contributions of Landscape Sciences to the Development of Environmental Security

Introduction - Environmental Security and Landscape Ecology

Landscape Ecology and Environmental Security: Basic Concepts and Regional Applications for the Mediterranean in the 21st Century

Landscape Management for Environmental Security: some Perspectives of Adaptive Management Approaches

The Policy Framework GMES as a Guideline for the Integration of Environmental Security Research and Landscape Sciences

Introduction - Landscape Science Methodologies to Assess Environmental Security

Investigating Landscape Patterns in Protected Areas Using Satellite Images

Quantifying and Qualifying Urban Green by Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS and Social Science Methods

Allometric Scaling as an Indicator of Ecosystem State: a New Approach

Introduction - Landscape Indicators and Landscape Change Detection: Introduction

Deriving the Spatial Traits of Organized Land Structures

Landscape Monitoring as a Tool in Improving Environmental Security

Landscapes of the Natural Park "Vepssky Forest"

Multi-Temporal Coastal Zone Landscape Change Detection Using Remote Sensing Imagery and in-situ Data

Landscape Character as a Framework for the Assessment of Environmental Change

Introduction - Integrated Landscape Studies of Catchments and Basins: Introduction

An Ecohydrological Approach for the Protection and Enhancement of Ecosystem Services

Environmental Quality and Landscape-Hazard Assessment in the Yantra River Basin, Bulgaria

The Influence of Catchment Land Cover on Phosphorus Balance for Large Freshwater Systems

The Use of Scenario Analysis to Assess Future Landscape Change on Watershed Condition in the Pacific Northwest (USA)

Cross-European Landscape Analyses: Illustrative Examples Using Existing Spatial Data

Introduction - Assessments of Human-Environmental Systems in Landscapes: Introduction

Demographic Impacts on Landscape Change - A Conceptual View of Global Demographic Trends

Land Use Impacts of Demographic Change - Lessons from Eastern German Urban Regions

The Consequences of Demographic Change in Rhineland-Palatinate: Scenarios of Landscape Consumption for Settlement and Transportation Areas

Landscape, Demographic Developments, Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use Strategy: a Case Study on Karaburun Peninsula Izmir, Turkey

Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a Case Study and Planning Tool for Mulfingen, a Municipality in South Germany

Environmental Security as Related to Scale Mismatches of Disturbance Patterns in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes

Fostering Ecosystem Service Security by Both Objective and Subjective Anlayses: the Case of a Natural Protected Area in Southern Italy

Environmental Assessment of Reindeer Herding in Changing Landscapes on Different Scales

Introduction - Environmental Applications of Landscape Ecological Methods - Impact Assessments

The Contribution of Quality Assessment of Eroded Agricultural Soil on Hilly-Undulating Landscapes to Sustainable Community Development

Nuclear Safety and its Impact on the Level of Environmental Security in Ukraine

Environmental Impact Assessment as a Tool for Environmental Restoration: the Case Study of Copsa-Mica area

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