Geodiversity evaluation with the aid of landscape indices - basic methodological obstructions

Auteurs :
KOT, R.
LEŚNIAK, K.

Description :
Some aspects of the theoretical foundations to geodiversity evaluation. The undesirable behavior of typical landscape indices is illustrated in a series of examples. This gives rise to a question as to how to measure diversity in a quantitative way, so that the result would be reliable, and especially consistent with the insightful geographic analysis made in each concrete case. A unique satisfactory index can not be proposed. Rather consideration has to be given to a set of appropriate indicators, or else investigations should be confined to relationships between the values of indices. - (BJ)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Przegląd geograficzny, issn : 0033-2143, 2006, vol. 78, n°. 1, p. 25-45, nombre de pages : 21, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 37 ref.

Date :
2006

Editeur :
Pays édition : Pologne, Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe