| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 193 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Cities and nature |
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Cities and nature.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Danny Czamanski, Itzhak Benenson and Dan Malkinson -- The Impact of Land-Use Policy on Urban Fringe Dynamics / Eric Koomen and Jasper Dekkers -- Long-Term Changes in the Configuration of Agriculture and Natural Areas Around Cities in the Netherlands (1900-1990) / Erez Hatna and Martha M. Bakker -- Investigating Land-Use Dynamics at the Periphery of a Fast-Growing City with Cellular Automata at Two Spatial Scales / Danielle J. Marceau, Fang Wang and Nishad Wijesekara -- The Spatial Morphology of Oporto's Urban Fringe / Miguel Serra and Paulo Pinho -- Vascular Plant Species Richness Patterns in Urban Environments: Case Studies from Hannover, Germany and Haifa, Israel / Sarah Matthies, Daniella Kopel, Stefan Rüter [and others] -- Future Suburban Development and the Environmental Implications of Lawns: A Case Study in New England, USA / Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Nick Giner [and others] -- Land Use-Land Cover Dynamics at the Metropolitan Fringe / Daniel Felsenstein, Michal Lichter, Eyal Ashbel and A. Yair Grinberger -- Lichens and Plants in Urban Environment / Gregory E. Insarov and Irina D. Insarova |
| Summary |
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment of landscape dynamics. The first part presents state-of-the-art modelling approaches pertaining to land-use changes entailed by the urban sprawl, at different spatial resolutions and temporal time scales. The second part is dedicated to case studies of the effects and consequences of the emerging urban-agriculture open space patterns |
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Geography.
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Computer simulation.
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Regional planning.
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Endangered ecosystems.
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Nature conservation.
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Regional economics.
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Biotic communities.
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Geography
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Computer Simulation
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urban environments.
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geography.
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simulation.
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regional planning.
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ART -- General.
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Biotic communities
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Computer simulation
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Endangered ecosystems
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Geography
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Nature conservation
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Regional economics
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Regional planning
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malkinson, Dan, editor.
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Czamanski, Daniel, editor.
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Benenson, Itzhak, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783642401992 |
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3642401996 |
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3642401988 |
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9783642401985 |
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