The great Australian wind rush and the devaluation of landscape amenity
Australia ; Coastal management ; Energy ; Energy policy ; Landscape ; Landscape evaluation ; Renewable energy ; Wind energy
by this form of electricity production. Attention is focused on a highly controversial proposal : the geographers can debate about the place of landscape values within the ecologically sustainable development paradigm.
The method for simulating the temporal and spatial distribution patterns of leaf area index (LAI) and biomass at landscape scale using remote sensing images and surface data is discussed in this paper. The method is based on Landsat Thematic Mapper
Landscape heterogeneity and disturbance interactions in a subalpine watershed in northern Colorado, USA
Biogenic process ; Colorado ; Fifteenth Century ; Forest ; Forest fire ; Insect ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Mountain ; Plant cover ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Watershed ; Wind
Historical changes in forest cover and land ownership in a Midwestern U.S. landscape
Cultivated surface ; Forest ; Land ; Land management ; Landed estate ; Landscape ecology ; Ohio ; Rural landscape ; Spatial analysis ; United States of America ; Vegetation dynamics
that experienced transitions among land uses. The results focus on factors that influence stable farm ownership and promote a diversity of environmental and economic gains from forests in the rural landscape.
The knowledge of how and how much a landscape changed in a specific time period is of paramount importance to predict scenarios and trends for the future. Landscape analysis can help in understanding state factors influence on environmental changes
and landforms present in the landscape, their relationship and relational typologies, and the variations of the persistence of the landforms in time as a consequences of anthropic action. - (NF)
Resisting the cartographic imperative : Giuseppe Bagetti's landscapes of war
Art ; Cartographical display ; Eighteenth Century ; Historical geography ; Italy ; Landscape ; Nineteenth Century ; Piemonte ; Social control ; Territorial planning
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Epistemology ; Italy ; Liguria ; Literature ; Town ; Urban landscape
and religious acropolis, but he expresses some ideas about rules that must be pursued in such description of a landscape or of a territory, showing marked interest in some crucial subjects of geographical epistemology. - (NF)
A classification of watercourses proposed by Hasholt 1999 has been tested in Denmark using data from detailed field investigations from 42 watercourses and their surrounding area. Three types of landscapes are included : the moraine landscape from
the Weichselian glaciation, the moraine landscape from the Saalian glaciation and the outwash plains. The performance of the classification in separating types of watercourses is discussed and modifications are suggested.
Human and climate impacts on the Holocene landscape development in southern Germany
Extreme events and the transformation of landscape
at archaeological sites. As important geoarchives, colluvial deposits document the beginning of the human-caused landscape changes, but they cannot record climatic signals. On the other hand, floodplain sediments alone cannot be used to represent the age, nature
Based on GIS and statistical methods, with the help of searching historical literatures and calculating the landscapes indices, the land use changes of Qian'an County in both spatial and temporal aspects from 1945 to 1996 has been analyzed
in this paper. The driving forces of land use changes and their ecological effects are discussed too. The main landscape type changed from a steppe landscape to a managed agricultural ecosystem. The ecological effects of land use change in the area
are characterized by serious salinization, degression of soil fertility and the weakening of landscape suitability.
Forest landscape patterns dynamics of Yihe-Luohe river basin
Biodiversity ; China ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Henan ; Human impact ; Land use ; Landscape ; Sustainable development ; Vegetation dynamics ; Watershed
Based on the information from forest resources distribution maps of Luoning County of 1983 and 1999, 6 indices were used to analyze spatial patterns and dynamics of forest landscapes of the typical region in the middle of the Yihe-Luohe river basin