Monitoring Simulation And Management Of Visitor Landscapes

Author : Howard Randal Gimblett,Hans Skov-Peterson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816527296

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Monitoring, Simulation, and Management of Visitor Landscapes by Howard Randal Gimblett,Hans Skov-Peterson Pdf

"Conventional methods used in the planning and management of human-landscape interactions fall far short of the needs of today s land management professionals. Monitoring, Simulation, and Management of Visitor Landscapes presents a growing body of applied research that provides decision makers with tools to maintain the ecological integrity of public places by evaluating the impacts of humans in various landscapes across space and time." "This will help land managers and policy makers construct strategies for evaluating interactions between humans and the environment and expand the model of land management to include social and geographic, as well as environmental, factors."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789162012588

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Visitor Monitoring in Nature Areas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Gray,Michael Paolisso,Rebecca Jordan,Stefan Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319250533

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Environmental Modeling with Stakeholders by Steven Gray,Michael Paolisso,Rebecca Jordan,Stefan Gray Pdf

This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation. This book presents the current state of knowledge regarding the theory and practice of engaging stakeholders in environmental modeling for decision-making, and includes basic theoretical considerations, an overview of methods and tools available, and case study examples of these principles and methods in practice. Although there has been a significant increase in research and development regarding participatory modeling, a unifying text that provides an overview of the different methodologies available to scholars and a systematic review of case study applications has been largely unavailable. This edited volume seeks to address a gap in the literature and provide a primer that addresses the growing demand to adopt and apply a range of modeling methods that includes the public in environmental assessment and management. The book is divided into two main sections. The first part of the book covers basic considerations for including stakeholders in the modeling process and its intersection with the theory and practice of public participation in environmental decision-making. The second part of the book is devoted to specific applications and products of the various methods available through case study examination. This second part of the book also provides insight from several international experts currently working in the field about their approaches, types of interactions with stakeholders, models produced, and the challenges they perceived based on their practical experiences.

Author : Danielle J. Marceau,Itzhak Benenson
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781608052226

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Advanced Geo-Simulation Models by Danielle J. Marceau,Itzhak Benenson Pdf

"Geosimulation has recently emerged at the intersection of Geographic Information Science, Complex Systems Theory and Computer Science. Geosimulation aims at understanding the dynamics of complex human-driven spatial systems through the use of spatially ex"

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615209309

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Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring by Silva, Carlos Nunes Pdf

"This book provides relevant theoretical perspectives on the use of ICT in Urban Planning as well as an updated account of the most recent developments in the practice of e-planning in different regions of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert E Manning,Laura E Anderson,Peter Pettengill
Publisher : CABI
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786391025

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Managing Outdoor Recreation, 2nd Edition by Robert E Manning,Laura E Anderson,Peter Pettengill Pdf

This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of management matrices. It then illustrates this framework through new and updated case studies in the US national parks, and concludes with the principles of outdoor recreation management. Managing Outdoor Recreation, 2nd Edition is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of parks, outdoor recreation and related subjects, as well as a helpful tool for practitioners.

Author : Adriano Sofo
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789533077154

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Biodiversity by Adriano Sofo Pdf

Biodiversity is strongly affected by the rapid and accelerating changes in the global climate, which largely stem from human activity. Anthropogenic activities are causing highly influential impacts on species persistence. The sustained environmental change wildlife is experiencing may surpass the capacity of developmental, genetic, and demographic mechanisms that populations have developed to deal with these alterations. How biodiversity is perceived and maintained affects ecosystem functioning as well as how the goods and services that ecosystems provide to humans can be used. Recognizing biodiversity is essential to preserve wildlife. Furthermore, the measure, management and protection of ecosystem biodiversity requires different and innovative approaches. For all these reasons, the aim of the present book is to give an up-to-date overview of the studies on biodiversity at all levels, in order to better understand the dynamics and the mechanisms at the basis of the richness of life forms both in terrestrial (including agro-ecosystems) and marine environments.

Author : Ian Spellerberg,Daniel S. Fogel,Sarah E. Fredericks,Lisa M. Butler Harrington,Maria Proto,Patricia Wouters
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780977015900

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 6/10 by Ian Spellerberg,Daniel S. Fogel,Sarah E. Fredericks,Lisa M. Butler Harrington,Maria Proto,Patricia Wouters Pdf

Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability presents a thorough and accessible overview of the ways in which sustainability is charted worldwide. Some articles introduce basic concepts, such as quantitative versus qualitative data or the weak versus strong sustainability debate; others examine how indicators in specific areas (climate change and soil conservation, agriculture, and mining) have been applied (or not) to different regions. Research analysts explain the modes and media through which these measurements are broadcast, stressing the importance of developing methods that can be understood by both experts and ordinary citizens. They also examine the process of monitoring, itself a controversial topic affecting national or international policy, law, rules, and regulations.

Author : David Newsome,Susan A. Moore,Ross Kingston Dowling
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781845413811

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Natural Area Tourism by David Newsome,Susan A. Moore,Ross Kingston Dowling Pdf

Natural Area Tourism provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of tourism in natural, wild and protected areas. The second edition contains an overview of key literature and new developments that have emerged since the publication of the first edition more than a decade ago. Accordingly, this book will remain an invaluable resource and review of the subject for many years to come.

Author : Stephan Ehrig,Britta C. Jung,Gad Schaffer
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462703483

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Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood by Stephan Ehrig,Britta C. Jung,Gad Schaffer Pdf

Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity. Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.

Author : Mark K. Briggs,Waite R. Osterkamp
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816541485

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Renewing Our Rivers by Mark K. Briggs,Waite R. Osterkamp Pdf

Our rivers are in crisis and the need for river restoration has never been more urgent. Water security and biodiversity indices for all of the world’s major rivers have declined due to pollution, diversions, impoundments, fragmented flows, introduced and invasive species, and many other abuses. Developing successful restoration responses are essential. Renewing Our Rivers addresses this need head on with examples of how to design and implement stream-corridor restoration projects. Based on the experiences of seasoned professionals, Renewing Our Rivers provides stream restoration practitioners the main steps to develop successful and viable stream restoration projects that last. Ecologists, geomorphologists, and hydrologists from dryland regions of Australia, Mexico, and the United States share case studies and key lessons learned for successful restoration and renewal of our most vital resource. The aim of this guidebook is to offer essential restoration guidance that allows a start-to-finish overview of what it takes to bring back a damaged stream corridor. Chapters cover planning, such emerging themes as climate change and environmental flow, the nuances of implementing restoration tactics, and monitoring restoration results. Renewing Our Rivers provides community members, educators, students, natural resource practitioners, experts, and scientists broader perspectives on how to move the science of restoration to practical success.

Author : Thomas Blaschke,Stefan Lang,Geoffrey Hay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540770589

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Object-Based Image Analysis by Thomas Blaschke,Stefan Lang,Geoffrey Hay Pdf

This book brings together a collection of invited interdisciplinary persp- tives on the recent topic of Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA). Its c- st tent is based on select papers from the 1 OBIA International Conference held in Salzburg in July 2006, and is enriched by several invited chapters. All submissions have passed through a blind peer-review process resulting in what we believe is a timely volume of the highest scientific, theoretical and technical standards. The concept of OBIA first gained widespread interest within the GIScience (Geographic Information Science) community circa 2000, with the advent of the first commercial software for what was then termed ‘obje- oriented image analysis’. However, it is widely agreed that OBIA builds on older segmentation, edge-detection and classification concepts that have been used in remote sensing image analysis for several decades. Nevert- less, its emergence has provided a new critical bridge to spatial concepts applied in multiscale landscape analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the synergy between image-objects and their radiometric char- teristics and analyses in Earth Observation data (EO).

Author : Alan A. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000425222

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Tourism Spaces by Alan A. Lew Pdf

Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move, and construct our world. Through space we create ‘others’ (anything that is any distance from ‘us’) and we experience time (by moving from one place point to another). Because it is so fundamental to our experience, we often take geographic space for granted. Tourism Spaces: Environments, Locations, and Movements shows some of the ways that geographers and other social scientists bring spatial considerations to the forefront of our research and understanding of tourism. This is seen through the spatial arrangements and distributions of tourism phenomena, such as attractions, destinations, and in the spatial behaviour of tourists themselves. Today, these spatial arrangements and patterns are increasingly being captured, analysed, and understood through various forms of formal and informal digital data. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

Author : Gabriel Wurzer,Kerstin Kowarik,Hans Reschreiter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319000084

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Agent-based Modeling and Simulation in Archaeology by Gabriel Wurzer,Kerstin Kowarik,Hans Reschreiter Pdf

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since it was seen as being used to "re-enact" and "visualize" possible scenarios for a wider (generally non-scientific) audience, based on scarce and fuzzy data. Furthermore, modeling "in exact terms" and programming as a means for producing agent-based simulations were simply beyond the field of the social sciences. This situation has changed quite drastically with the advent of the internet age: Data, it seems, is now ubiquitous. Researchers have switched from simply collecting data to filtering, selecting and deriving insights in a cybernetic manner. Agent-based simulation is one of the tools used to glean information from highly complex excavation sites according to formalized models, capturing essential properties in a highly abstract and yet spatial manner. As such, the goal of this book is to present an overview of techniques used and work conducted in that field, drawing on the experience of practitioners.

Author : Aaron J. Poe,Randy Gimblett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780816535644

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Sustaining Wildlands by Aaron J. Poe,Randy Gimblett Pdf

"Nearly thirty years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, land managers and stakeholders explore the ongoing paradox of accommodating human use while reducing environmental impact in Prince William Sound"--Provided by publisher.