Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment write by Rudolf Krönert. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book's aim is to present recommendations for sustainable land use and management. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. Future research tendencies are also covered. All methodological approaches are explained with examples from different regions.
Trees in the Urban Landscape
Trees in the Urban Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trees in the Urban Landscape write by Peter J. Trowbridge. This book was released on 2004-02-09. Trees in the Urban Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This hands-on guidebook provides practical, applied information on design considerations, site planning and understand-ing, plant selection, installation, and maintenance of trees in challenging urban environments.
Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment
Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment write by Graham Fairclough. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape. Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relatively straightforward, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape character constructed through human perception, and transcending any of its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques have been developed to give practical meaning to this idea of landscape character. The two main methods, Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) were applied first in the United Kingdom, but other methods are in use elsewhere in Europe, and beyond, to achieve similar ends. This book explores why different approaches exist, the extent to which disciplinary or cultural specificities in different countries affect approaches to land management and landscape planning, and highlights areas for reciprocal learning and knowledge transfer. Contributors to the book focus on examples of European countries – such as Sweden, Turkey and Portugal – that have adopted and extended UK-style landscape characterisation, but also on countries with their own distinctive approaches that have developed from different conceptual roots, as in Germany, France and the Netherlands. The collection is completed by chapters looking at landscape approaches based on non-European concepts of landscape in North America, Australia and New Zealand. This book has an introductory price of £125/$205 which will last until 3 months after publication - after this time it will revert to £140/$225.
Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT)
Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT) write by Lisa Anne Ciecko. This book was released on 2016. Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT) is a set of procedures and tools used to rapidly determine forest ecological conditions and potential threats. FLAT enables planners and managers to understand baseline conditions, determine and prioritize restoration needs across a landscape system, and conduct ongoing monitoring to achieve land management goals. The rapid assessment process presents a cost-effective opportunity for landowners that include local governments, private owners, and nongovernmental organizations to use ecological data to guide decisionmaking and improve environmental outcomes on their lands. This report is an introduction to FLAT, providing an overview of its purpose, methods, and implications for land management in diverse regions. FLAT is executed in three sequential phases: Phase 1--Forest Cover Type Mapping, Phase 2--Field Assessment, and Phase 3--Management Prioritization. Overall, FLAT consists of onsite visual estimation (aided by remote sensing) of ecological conditions by a trained field team to produce a forest inventory. In addition to providing baseline data and a framework to prioritize actions, FLAT can be used as a monitoring tool to evaluate changing conditions and inform adjustments in management strategies and priorities. To illustrate FLAT implementation, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks case study details a pilot project conducted on 24,700 of the more than 26,000 ac of county lands. King County is using the results from FLAT to develop and implement forest stewardship plans and target efforts of its volunteer restoration program. Although the tool was initially used in lowland forests in the Puget Sound region, in concept, FLAT could be expanded and adapted for use in a wide variety of ecosystem types."--Abstract
Fuzzy Logic Knowledge Bases in Integrated Landscape Assessment
Fuzzy Logic Knowledge Bases in Integrated Landscape Assessment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fuzzy Logic Knowledge Bases in Integrated Landscape Assessment write by Keith M. Reynolds. This book was released on 2001. Fuzzy Logic Knowledge Bases in Integrated Landscape Assessment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
