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Modelling Environmental Dynamics

Advances in Geomatic Solutions

By: Martin Paegelow (Editor), Mara-A Teresa Camacho Olmedo (Editor), Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 August 2008

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Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental and complex dynamics. Based on this introduction this book illustrates various models applied to a large variety of themes: deforestation in tropical regions, fire risk, natural reforestation in European mountains, agriculture, biodiversity, urbanism, climate change and land management for decision support, etc. These case studies, provided by a large international spectrum of researchers and presented in a uniform structure, focus particularly on methods and model validation so that this book is not only aimed at researchers and graduates but also at professionals.

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Concepts, Tools and Applications
Advances in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics	p. 3
Case Studies
Model comparison applied to deforestation and reforestation
Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios	p. 57
Tropical deforestation modelling: comparative analysis of different predictive approaches. The case study of Peten, Guatemala	p. 77
Evaluation of prospective modelling methods: fuzzylogics and cellular automaton applied to deforestation in Venezuela	p. 109
Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes	p. 141
Decision support and participatory modelling
GIS-supported modelling and diagnosis of fire risk at the wildland urban interface. A methodological approach for operational management	p. 169
Participatory modelling of social and ecological dynamics in mountain landscapes subjected to spontaneous ash reforestation	p. 199
Land use scenarios: a communication tool with local communities	p. 223
Retrospective modelling
Retrospective geomatic landscape modelling. A probabilistic approach	p. 247
Multi objective conflicts and environmental impact of intensive agriculture
Simulating greenhouse growth in urban zoning on the coast of Granada (Spain)	p. 269
Greenhouses, land use change, and predictive models: MaxEnt and Geomod working together	p. 297
Urban environment and urban growth
Modelling intra-urban dynamics in the Savassi neighbourhood, Belo Horizonte city, Brazil	p. 319
Creation and evaluation of development scenarios for metropolitan patterns	p. 339
Towards a set of IPCC SRES urban land use scenarios: modelling urban land use in the Madrid region	p. 363
Index	p. 387
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