Springer Netherlands, 2017. — 436 p. Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out...
Willey Blackwell, 2016. — 264 p. Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning about the concepts and methods underlying the field remains very challenging. The reason for this is the highly interdisciplinary nature of the field, which combines population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics. These fields have...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8018-9138-0. Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, woodlands, farmlands, and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are...
Springer, 2012. — 333 p. Beginning in the era of the Spanish conquest and taking the reader right up to the present day, this book focuses on how the landscape of Cuba has changed and evolved into the environment we see today. It illustrates the range of factors economic, political and cultural that have determined Cubas physical geography, and explores the shifting...
CRC Press, 2006. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8247-2389-7. This book presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling. It provides a cross-section of many recently developed measurement tools, as well as computer-related and pedometric techniques that are instrumental for soil-landscape modeling. It also contains in-depth reviews of the history of...
Springer Netherlands, 2010. — 226 p. — (Urban and Landscape Perspectives. Vol. 8). — ISBN: 978-90-481-3051-1, 978-90-481-3052-8. Landscape modeling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial...
Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 587 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-5914-2. Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation is a first attempt at identifying further principles from what environmental scientists have learned about these issues – revealing a rich lode of distilled knowledge. But in extracting the sorts of principles that can serve as actual guides for managers, it is...
Springer, 2010. 497 p. ISBN: 978-90-481-9412-4 Summaries of the Contributions and a Few Considerations A Semantic Introduction Womb, Belly and Landscape in the Anthropocene The Mediterranean and European World–Arid Mediterranean Lands Human Responses to Climatically-driven Landscape Change and Resource Scarcity: Learning from the Past and Planning for the Future Human...
Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, WP-96-111, October 1996. — 62 p. This is the time Siberia's forest sector has recently gained considerable international interest. IIASA, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Federal Forest Service, in agreement with the Russian Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, signed...
Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IR-97-54 /December, 1997. — 56 p. IIASA, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Federal Forest Service, in agreement with the Russian Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, signed agreements in 1992 and 1994 to carry out a large-scale study on the Siberian forest sector. The overall...
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