Mapping and Forecasting Land Use

The Present and Future of Planning
Herausgegeben:Pereira, Paulo; Gomes, Eduardo; Rocha, Jorge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning is a comprehensive reference on the use of technologies to map land use, focusing on GIS and remote sensing applications and methodologies for land use monitoring. This book addresses transversal topics such as urbanisation, biodiversity loss, climate change, ecosystem services and participatory planning, with the pros and cons of various aerial technologies in mapping and land use. It follows a multidisciplinary approach and provides opinions and evidence from leading researchers working in academic institutions across the globe. The book's second half moves from theory and research advancement into case studies, compiling global examples to provide real-world context and evidence of the techniques and applications.

Mapping and Forecasting Land Use is a valuable guide for graduates, academics and researchers in the fields of geography, geographic information science and land use science who want toeffectively apply GIS and remote sensing capabilities to mapping or wider land studies. Researchers in geosciences, environmental science and agriculture will also find this of value in utilising 21st-century technologies in their field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2020-0-02839-2
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780323909471
• ISBN-10: 0323909477
• Artikelnr.: 61461413

Autorenporträt

Paulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction

Section 1: Theory 2. Land-use changes and Ecosystem Services 3. Future land use/cover changes and participatory planning 4. Earth observation, Land-Use and Land-Cover Mapping and Society 5. Peri-urban land use 6. Advancing land-use modelling requires new data to understand and represent human decision making 7. Forecasting Land-use and land cover change: opening stakeholders' black box 8. Landscape, water, people and climate 9. Drivers of land use changes in Latin America. A review focusing on irrigated drylands

Section 2: Case Studies 10. Land use dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau 11. Cultivation spread into desert land over the last five decades (1972-2020), challenges and choices. A case study surrounding areas of Nile delta 12. Land use management for coastal flooding prevention; a participatory simulation platform applied to Camargue (France) 13. The role of non-farm activities in the transformation of peri-urban landscapes from agricultural to urban landscapes (Greater Copenhagen, Denmark) 14. Setting up a Land Use Cover Change Model for Greater Sydney. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead 15. Land-use change in the touristic city (Lisbon, Portugal) 16. Land use change effects in one UNESCO cultural landscape and future projection (Viñales, Cuba) 17. Projections of future land use changes and associated ecosystem services loss in Kolkata megacity region