Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Malkinson, Dan. (Editor), Czamanski, Danny. (Editor), Benenson, Itzhak. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Cities and Nature
• Subjects: Geography.; Computer simulation.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecosystems.; Nature conservation.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Nature Conservation.; Simulation and Modeling.
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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 assessmen...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Impact of Land-Use Policy on Urban Fringe Dynamics
• Long-Term Changes in Configuration of Agriculture and Natural Areas Around Cities in the Netherlands (1900 - 1990).- Investigating Land-Use Dynamics at the Periphery of a Fast-Growing City with Cellular Automata at Two Spatial Scales
• The Spatial Morphology of Oporto's Urban Fringe
• Vascular Plant Species Richness Patterns in Urban Environments - Case Studies from Hannover, Germany and Haifa, Israel
• Future Suburban Development and the Environmental Implications of Lawns: A Case Study in New England, USA.- Land Use-Land Cover Dynamics at the Metropolitan Fringe
• Lichens and Plants in Urban Environment.