Global Forest Visualization

Author : Lynda Olman,Birgit Schneider
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040013342

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Global Forest Visualization by Lynda Olman,Birgit Schneider Pdf

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. This dislocation of the idea of the forest from its literal roots in the ground has generated problems for forest visualization efforts designed to empower local communities. This book takes a critical humanistic approach to this problem, combining methods from the fields of rhetoric and media studies to suggest solutions to these problems for designers and users of platforms like the Global Forest Watch. To explain why global views of forests can be disempowering, the book relies on biopolitical and rhetorical theories of panopticism and how these views unfold a different violence on different regions of the Earth in relation to colonial history. Using this theoretical framework, the book explains the historical process by which forests came to be classified, quantified, and mapped on a global scale. Interviews with end-users of global forest visualization platforms reveal if and how these platforms support local action. Lastly, the book provides rhetorical solutions to articulate global and local views of forests without reducing one view to the other. These solutions involve looking to forests themselves for clues about how to generate more broadly effective and resilient visualizations. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of forest studies, climate change, science communication, visualization studies, environmental communication, and environmental conservation.

Author : Ann Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Forest and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D014716173

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Visualizing Forest Change by Ann Lynch Pdf

Author : Nick Mount,Gemma Harvey,Paul Aplin,Gary Priestnall
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 142005550X

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Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment by Nick Mount,Gemma Harvey,Paul Aplin,Gary Priestnall Pdf

The explosion of public interest in the natural environment can, to a large extent, be attributed to greater public awareness of the impacts of global warming and climate change. This has led to increased research interest and funding directed at studies of issues affecting sensitive, natural environments. Not surprisingly, much of this work has required the innovative application of GIS and has led to a crucial research question: How should the environment be represented, modeled, analyzed, and visualized within a GIS? With contributions from recognized international experts, Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment explores the interplay between data representation, modeling, and visualization in environmental studies. It reviews state-of-the-art GIS applications for the natural environment and presents them in the context of a range of recent studies. This focus identifies analytical challenges and illustrates broader opportunities for applying GIS within other areas of the sciences and social sciences. The integrated approach reflects the need for a single volume covering all aspects While many texts cover aspects of GIS application within an environmental context, few of these books focus specifically on the natural environment nor do they integrate the questions that encompass the full process of enquiry associated with GIS application in studies of the environment. The thirteenth volume in the widely recognized Innovations of GIS series, this book investigates each of these questions in turn, explicitly addressing all aspects of GIS application in the natural environment.

Author : Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466552029

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Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation by Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen Pdf

Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.

Author : Stephen R.J. Sheppard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136529009

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Visualizing Climate Change by Stephen R.J. Sheppard Pdf

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery explains how climate change works where we live, and reveals how we often conceal, misinterpret, or overlook the evidence of climate change impacts and our carbon usage that causes them. This guide to using visual media in communicating climate change vividly brings to life both the science and the practical solutions for climate change, such as local renewable energy and flood protection. It introduces powerful new visual tools (from outdoor signs to video-games) for communities, action groups, planners, and other experts to use in engaging the public, building awareness and accelerating action on the world’s greatest crisis.

Author : David M. Hassenzahl,Mary Catherine Hager,Linda R. Berg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119443346

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Visualizing Environmental Science by David M. Hassenzahl,Mary Catherine Hager,Linda R. Berg Pdf

The 5th Edition of Visualizing Environmental Science provides students with a valuable opportunity to identify and connect the central issues of environmental science through a visual approach. Beautifully illustrated, this fifth edition shows students what the discipline is all about—its main concepts and applications—while also instilling an appreciation and excitement about the richness of the subject. This edition is thoroughly refined and expanded; the visuals utilize insights from research on student learning and feedback from users.

Author : Guofan Shao,Keith M. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402043871

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Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management by Guofan Shao,Keith M. Reynolds Pdf

This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of computer applications in forestry. It is the first text on software for forest management to emphasize integration of computer applications. It also offers important new insights on how to continue advancing computational technologies in forest management. The authors are internationally-recognized authorities in the subjects presented.

Author : Anita Proszowska,Ewa Prymon-Ryś,Anna Dubel,Anna Kondak,Aleksandra Wilk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040034828

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Sustainable Marketing and the Circular Economy in Poland by Anita Proszowska,Ewa Prymon-Ryś,Anna Dubel,Anna Kondak,Aleksandra Wilk Pdf

Sustainable Marketing and the Circular Economy in Poland outlines the specific challenges around formulating an organisation's marketing strategy in line with the circular economy (CE) framework. This book helps to solve the problem of ineffective pro-environmental programmes and marketing tools, which are currently used by enterprises to make their activities more sustainable. The authors identify key concepts and strategies of sustainable marketing to highlight the trends and development directions of marketing activities of modern enterprises. Focussing on Poland as a central case study, the book is illustrated with examples of organisations that are implementing sustainable marketing activities that are compatible with the CE model. It also presents the results of studies which examined the pro-environmental marketing efforts of small- and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations and other actors in Poland. To conclude, the authors put forward recommendations for CE network stakeholders regarding sustainable marketing management, focussing specifically on how to avoid accusations of greenwashing and other unethical organisational behaviour. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of green marketing, sustainable business and the CE, as well as entrepreneurs and business professionals looking to formulate sustainable marketing strategies.

Author : Anna Kosovac
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040043400

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Risk Management for Water Professionals by Anna Kosovac Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive view of the different theories of risk management in water, drawing on recent studies that serve to inform the way that practitioners consider their own risk practice. While it is commonplace to see risk described in technical and engineering terms when discussing water, this book argues that this is a flawed practice that results in poor decision-making, particularly where water intersects with social elements and the community. Challenging these traditionally held notions of risk, this book introduces the psychological and sociological underpinnings to water risk decisions. Using these, it argues for a broader view of risk-based thinking and proposes a number of evidence-based actions for policymakers to directly implement. Drawing on primary research conducted with water professionals across a variety of roles, this book highlights how the effect of psychological inputs, such as dread and reputation, can create barriers to implementing novel water solutions or projects. Through understanding the biases covered in this book, water practitioners can work to support processes that seek to encourage new and innovative methods in water management. This book will be of great interest to professionals working in water management, including those in government roles, planning departments and consultancies. It is also a great reference for students of both water resource management and risk studies more generally.

Author : Erkki Tomppo,Jaan Praks,Guangxing Wang,Lars T. Waser
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036512525

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Advances in Remote Sensing for Global Forest Monitoring by Erkki Tomppo,Jaan Praks,Guangxing Wang,Lars T. Waser Pdf

The topics of the book cover forest parameter estimation, methods to assess land cover and change, forest disturbances and degradation, and forest soil drought estimations. Airborne laser scanner data, aerial images, as well as data from passive and active sensors of different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions have been utilized. Parametric and non-parametric methods including machine and deep learning methods have been employed. Uncertainty estimation is a key topic in each study. In total, 15 articles are included, of which one is a review article dealing with methods employed in remote sensing aided greenhouse gas inventories, and one is the Editorial summary presenting a short review of each article.

Author : Jeffrey A. Cardille,Morgan A. Crowley,David Saah,Nicholas E. Clinton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031265884

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Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine by Jeffrey A. Cardille,Morgan A. Crowley,David Saah,Nicholas E. Clinton Pdf

This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort from more than a hundred individuals, collecting new exercises from professors, undergraduates, master’s students, PhD students, postdocs, and independent consultants. Cloud Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine is broadly organized into two halves. The first half, Fundamentals, is a set of 31 labs designed to take the reader from being a complete Earth Engine novice to being a quite advanced user. The second half, Applications, presents a tour of the world of Earth Engine across 24 chapters, showing how it is used in a very wide variety of settings that rely on remote-sensing data This is an open access book.

Author : Gabriele Dürbeck,Philip Hüpkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000432503

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Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene by Gabriele Dürbeck,Philip Hüpkes Pdf

The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

Author : Enzai Du,Wim de Vries
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323998482

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Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to Global Forests by Enzai Du,Wim de Vries Pdf

Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in Global Forests: Spatial Variation, Impacts, and Management Implications provides the most comprehensive knowledge on spatial variation and ecological impacts of reactive nitrogen deposition in global forests, as well as forest management options to mitigate the negative impacts. Written and edited by international experts in the field, this book synthesizes recent research developments and insights in monitoring and modeling nitrogen deposition in global forests. The book also assesses ecological impacts of enhanced nitrogen deposition on forest structure and function and responses of forest ecosystems to decreasing nitrogen deposition in regions such as the European Union and North America. Finally, the book reviews indicators and thresholds for nitrogen saturation in global forests and analyzes remediation options to reduce impacts of excess nitrogen deposition. This is an important resource for researchers in forestry and biodiversity conservation, as well as graduate students, policymakers and others who want to understand environmental issues of reactive nitrogen deposition in global forests. Offers a systematic view of the ecological impacts of enhanced nitrogen deposition Provides the most comprehensive knowledge on spatial variation and the ecological impacts of reactive nitrogen deposition in global forests Presents expert research and findings on forest management options to remediate negative impacts

Author : Carolyn Flynn,Shari L. Just Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781440696565

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Visualization by Carolyn Flynn,Shari L. Just Ph.D. Pdf

If you can envision it, you can make it happen. Creative visualization is the technique of using the imagination to identify goals and then making them a reality. It’s more powerful than sheer drive because it works in harmony with the positive energy of the universe. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Creative Visualization helps readers visualize—and then actualize—their best and brightest lives. - Filled with techniques and exercises that reveal the power of visualization. - Offers suggestions, guidance, and tips to inspire the imagination. - Follows the path of the book that launched the creative visualization movement nearly 30 years ago and adds such New Age elements as meditations and affirmations. - Creative visualization offers something for those interested in the New Age movement, spirituality, and self-improvement.

Author : Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000218657

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Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation by Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen Pdf

Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.