A Changing World

Written primarily for researchers and advanced students in environmental and social sciences, this latest book in Springer's Landscape Series looks at some of the emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research. These include:the role of value systems in perceiving, appreciating, and managing landscapesthe 'space' and 'place' concept in landscape researchGIS and remote sensing techniques for gathering and processing spatially and temporally explicit land cover, vegetation, and land use datamethods of landscape historylandscape genetics and genetic methods to test landscape connectivity and dispersal of plant and animal species palaeoclimatic research, with focus on tree ring based temperature reconstructionslandscape patterns, processes and model up-scalingstatistical methods for environmental time series and other observations Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers in landscape ecology, landscape perception, conservation biology, ecological modeling, statistics in the environmental sciences and related fields.