Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions

✍ Scribed by M Paegelow, MT Olmedo Camacho (auth.), Martin Paegelow, María Teresa Camacho Olmedo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental and complex dynamics. Based on this introduction this book illustrates various models applied to a large variety of themes: deforestation in tropical regions, fire risk, natural reforestation in European mountains, agriculture, biodiversity, urbanism, climate change and land management for decision support, etc. These case studies, provided by a large international spectrum of researchers and presented in a uniform structure, focus particularly on methods and model validation so that this book is not only aimed at researchers and graduates but also at professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Advances in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics....Pages 3-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Simulating greenhouse growth in urban zoning on the coast of Granada (Spain)....Pages 269-295
Greenhouses, land use change, and predictive models: MaxEnt and Geomod working together....Pages 297-317
Modelling intra-urban dynamics in the Savassi neighbourhood, Belo Horizonte city, Brazil....Pages 319-338
Creation and evaluation of development scenarios for metropolitan patterns....Pages 339-362
Towards a set of IPCC SRES urban land use scenarios: modelling urban land use in the Madrid region....Pages 363-385
Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios....Pages 57-76
Tropical deforestation modelling: comparative analysis of different predictive approaches. The case study of Peten, Guatemala....Pages 77-107
Evaluation of prospective modelling methods: fuzzy logics and cellular automaton applied to deforestation in Venezuela....Pages 109-139
Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes....Pages 141-167
GIS-supported modelling and diagnosis of fire risk at the wildland urban interface. A methodological approach for operational management....Pages 169-197
Participatory modelling of social and ecological dynamics in mountain landscapes subjected to spontaneous ash reforestation....Pages 199-222
Land use scenarios: a communication tool with local communities....Pages 223-246
Retrospective geomatic landscape modelling. A probabilistic approach....Pages 247-268
Back Matter....Pages 387-390

✦ Subjects

Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Computer Applications in Geosciences; Environmental Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Climate Change