Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes

This volume focuses on landscape perspectives and related development scenarios. The contributors concentrate mainly on future activities in integrated landscape research and monitoring - an area of importance for finding solutions for sustainable land use and providing adequate bases for planning and policy making." "The research papers and case studies featured in Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes were originally presented at a symposium which formed part of the Seventh International Congress on Ecology.

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Seven papers comprise one of at least two volumes documenting a symposium at the Seventh International Congress on Ecology (no date or location cited). Geographers, land planners, and other professionals concerned with landscape cover the Central City Belt as a case study for modelling landscape changes in The Netherlands, an alternative future for the region of Camp Pendleton in California, predicting future landscapes of islands in Japan's Seto Inland Sea, a scenario approach to predicting the future of Estonian agricultural landscapes, suburbanization and landscape change in Connecticut and the repetition of the patterns in Estonia and elsewhere, a case study of assessing nature conservation scenarios in the Madrid region, and the contribution of landscape ecology to the sustainable future of post- industrial rural landscapes. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)