| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 390 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Environmental science and engineering. Environmental science |
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Spon's environmental science and engineering series. Environmental science
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| Contents |
Concepts, Tools and Applications -- Advances in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics -- Case Studies -- Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios -- Tropical deforestation modelling: comparative analysis of different predictive approaches. The case study of Peten, Guatemala -- Evaluation of prospective modelling methods: fuzzy logics and cellular automaton applied to deforestation in Venezuela -- Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes -- GIS-supported modelling and diagnosis of fire risk at the wildland urban interface. A methodological approach for operational management -- Participatory modelling of social and ecological dynamics in mountain landscapes subjected to spontaneous ash reforestation -- Land use scenarios: a communication tool with local communities -- Retrospective geomatic landscape modelling. A probabilistic approach -- Simulating greenhouse growth in urban zoning on the coast of Granada (Spain) -- Greenhouses, land use change, and predictive models: MaxEnt and Geomod working together -- Modelling intra-urban dynamics in the Savassi neighbourhood, Belo Horizonte city, Brazil -- Creation and evaluation of development scenarios for metropolitan patterns -- Towards a set of IPCC SRES urban land use scenarios: modelling urban land use in the Madrid region |
| Summary |
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 reg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Environmental sciences -- Mathematical models
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Environmental sciences -- Computer simulation
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Regional planning.
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Environmental management.
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Climatic changes.
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regional planning.
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geography.
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environmental control.
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climate change.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Environmental sciences -- Computer simulation.
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Environmental sciences -- Mathematical models.
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environmental sciences -- Computer simulation
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Environmental sciences -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paegelow, Martin.
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Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa.
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| ISBN |
9783540684985 |
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3540684980 |
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