Landscape Analysis and Planning: Geographical Perspectives [Hardcover]

This book presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape planning based on selected studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies presented and discussed during scientific sessions organized by the Commission of Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning of the International Geographical Union (IGU) within the framework of the?IGU?Regional Conference in Krak?w, Poland, August 18-22, 2014.

The subject of landscape analysis and landscape?planning?has been of interest to geographers since the beginning of the twentieth century. This relatively new area of study, which focuses on the landscape resource patches and spatial?interconnections, was first introduced as landscape ecology (Landschaftsoekologie) by Carl Troll, one of the twentieth centurys most influential physical geographers. Today, landscape studies involve adopting a holistic view of geographic environments and are closely connected to rapidly developing ecosystem, sustainable landscape and ecosystem services approaches. Modern techniques employing Geographical Information Systems are used to support spatial landscape analyses.

Part I Landscape analysis.- The Natural Capital of Selected Mountain Areas in Bulgaria.- The Landscape Ecology According to Geography: A Proposal of Tools for the Analysis and Management of the Environment.- Dynamic Patterns of NDVI over the Biospere Reserve Kampinos Forest, Poland: Vegetation and Water Relationships.- Forest Landscapes of Georgia: Potential, Conditions and Problems.- The Landscape Research in the Svratka-River Basin Using Ecosystem Services According to the CICES Methodology.- Assessment of the Exposure of Tourism-Related Landscape Values of the Silesian Beskids Based on Computed Visualisation.-Cultural Landscape Function.- Transformation of the Structure of the River Catchment Landscape Located in the Area of Intensive Coal Exploitation.- Part II Landscape Plal‡