The future of ecological evaluation for land use planning: the case of Belgium
Supplement and up-to-date extension to earlier papers on ecological evaluation for planning purposes. Scientific, strategic and political objections against ecological evaluation in its present shape are discussed. Recent Belgian developments.
On ecological characteristics, utilization and management of the Tibetan Plateau, China
Biodiversity ; China ; Ecology ; Environmental management ; High mountain ; Land use ; Natural hazards ; Natural resources ; Plateau ; Poverty ; Preventive measure ; Qinghai ; Sustainable development ; Tibet ; Woman
This paper briefs the basic characteristics of eco-environment, land-use, sustainable strategic development objectives and existing problems on the realization of sustainable development in Tibet.
Ecological and evolutional principles of arid fodder plants selection are discussed. The importance of the following fundamental principles of ecology - the concept of plant life strategical types and the concept of polytypic character of species
is discussed. 10 varieties of fodder shrubs and semishrubs have been selected which are characterized by high productivity and ecological stability in arid regions of the USSR with atmospheric precipitation of 80-250 mm. - (L'Ed.).
Structure and evolution of landscapes in connection with strategic planning of development of rural areas (on the example of the Slavsk area in the Kaliningrad district)
The article describes the landscape planning possibilities for changing of rural zone functions on an example from a problem area in the district of Kaliningrad. During the field season of 2003 the group of landscape-ecological planning of Faculty
of field resaerch the functional-ecological map of the Slavsk area was drawn. - (BJ)
Environmental protection needs good administration : ecological application of the new legal instrument European Groupings of Territorial Co-operation (EGTC)
Applying the strategic-relational approach to urban political ecology : the water management problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil ; Humid environment ; Mobilisation ; Political ecology ; Rio de Janeiro ; Role of the State ; Society-environment relationship ; Urban growth ; Urban supply ; Water ; Water management
Neue Entwicklungstendenzen im Weltluftverkehr. Hub Airports, Strategic Alliances, Low-Cost Carriers
Air transport ; Airport ; Asia ; Deregulation ; Ecology ; Globalization ; South-Eastern Asia ; Transport
, costs, and prices. Consequently, they are not much concerned with sustainable transport aiming to improve the economic, ecological and social conditions of human life. - (IfL)
Ecology ; Economic space ; Planning ; Region ; Regional integration ; Slovenia ; Social space
of interdisciplinary approach. In a large table the key spatial indicators are described together with its links with economic, social and ecological indicators. The method is demonstrated on three practical cases in a form of flow charts. Strategic evaluations
The collective sensibility for the protection and valorisation of the landscape has been constantly growing, in Italy as well as elsewhere, during the last two decades. The PIR Ecological Networks of the Sicilian Regional Government is a clear
example of the growing interest of the local governments in mixing, within the projects for local development, the definition of strategic policies with the environmental and landscape valorisation. - (NF)
Agricultural production ; Argentina ; Chile ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Colombia ; Ecological footprint ; Landslide ; Local population ; Mexico ; Precipitation ; Risk ; River ; Settlement ; Urban area ; Vulnerability ; Water management ; Watershed
phénomènes El Niño et la Niña sur les précipitations et leur impact sur la production agricole de la province de l’Atlantique (Colombie) ; 3-Metropolitan vulnerability and strategic roles for periurban agricultural territories in the context of climate change
The paper includes the following chapters : 1. Political ecology : all things to all people ? 2. Issues, narratives and epistemologies. 3. Disjunctures. 4. Cartography of political ecology. 5. Analytical narratives for political ecology. 6. Post
Concept ; Denmark ; Ecology ; Geographic school ; Geography ; Human ecology ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape structure ; Sustainable development
The tradition of geography as human ecology introduced to Danish geography by Sofus Christiansen is taken as a departure for an evaluation of present endeavour to promote geography as landscape ecology. The modest role in human ecology of human
adaptation to landscape structure and dynamics is stressed. The challenge for geography in the development of a transdisciplinary landscape ecology as foundation for the planning and management of landscape ecological aspects of local and regional
Method for calculating ecological water storage and ecological water requirement of marsh
Applied ecology ; Bog ; China ; Humid environment ; Jilin ; Water management ; Water needs ; Water resources
In this study, the definition and connotation of the ecological water storage of marsh is discussed, and its distinction and relationship with ecological water requirement are also analyzed. Furthermore, the gist and method of calculating ecological
water storage and ecological water requirement have been provided, and Momoge wetland, (located in Zhenlai county, Jilin Province, China), has been given as an example of calculation of the two variables. Ecological water use of marsh can be ascertained
according to ecological water storage and ecological water requirement.
Human geography and the new ecology: the prospect and promise of integration
Biodiversity ; Concept ; Ecology ; Environment ; Human geography ; Man-environment relations ; Research
The new ecology underscores the role of nonequilibrium conditions in biophysical environments, a reorientation of biological ecology based in part of biogeography. Its implications for the analysis of these environments are described. Certain key
The A. discusses the application of landscape ecological principles to a specific and pressing issue: nature reserve design and functioning. He reviews 5 landscape ecological themes with relevance to reserve design and management. He studies
: the role that landscape ecological theories may have in integrating existing principles from applied biogeography and population biology; the unique insights provided by a landscape ecological approach. Finally, he argues that biogeographers need to be more
active in the development and advancement of landscape ecological theory.
Applied ecology ; Ecotone ; Hungary ; Land use ; Outer conurbation area ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Urban fringe
Besides the investigations into the basic elements of the ecological spatial networks : the ecological matrix areas, corridors of barriers and also the biocores and buffer zones, the analysis of the edge-zones, the so-called ecotons
, is an increasingly popular topic of landscape ecology. The ecological role of the edge zones is proportional to the contrast between the ecological properties of the areas they separate. The ecological contrast is the sharpest possible round the town outskirts. - (ZK)
Following the previous report on this subject, published in 2007, there has been a very substantial increase in publications relevant to landscape ecology. The continuing identity crisis of landscape ecology is described and recent literature
in the field is then summarized under the following headings : Landscape ecology and climate research; Alternatives to fragmentation and the patch-based model - the links between pattern and process; Fragmentation research; Methodology and techniques
in landscape ecology; and Connectivity and graph theoretical approaches. The review concludes that landscape ecology now represents one important focus within biogeography, linked to ecological biogeography, and takes its place alongside other key foci
Spatio-temporal differentiation of landscape ecological niche in western ecological frangible region : a case study of Yan'an region in northwestern China
Arid area ; China ; Ecological niche ; Ecosystem ; Landscape ecology ; Model ; Shaanxi ; Spatial analysis ; Statistics
The AA. attempt here to put forward a conception of landscape ecological niche, enlightened by the international scholars on extending the ecological niche theory from spatial to functional niche. The results show that from 1987 to 2000, towards
Yan'an region, spatial attribute value of landscape ecological niche changes with an obvious increment, and functional attribute value change with a little increment, both of which enhance the regional landscape ecological niche. Towards each county
, spatial attribute value of landscape ecological niche increases to different extent while functional attribute value changes dissimilarly with an increment or a decrement.
Applied ecology ; Concept ; Ecological crisis ; Ecology ; Environment ; Epistemology ; Global environment ; History of sciences ; Human ecology ; Ideology ; Philosophy of sciences ; Value system