Modelling Environmental Dynamics Advances in Geomatic Solutions - Paegelow, Martin; Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Concepts, Tools and Applications -- Advances in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics -- Case Studies -- Land use / Land cover change dynamics in the Mexican highlands: current situation and long term scenarios -- Tropical deforestation modelling: comparative analysis of different predictive approaches. The case study of Peten, Guatemala -- Evaluation of prospective modelling methods: fuzzy logics and cellular automaton applied to deforestation in Venezuela -- Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes -- GIS-supported modelling and diagnosis of fire risk at the wildland urban interface. A methodological approach for operational management -- Participatory modelling of social and ecological dynamics in mountain landscapes subjected to spontaneous ash reforestation -- Land use scenarios: a communication tool with local communities -- Retrospective geomatic landscape modelling. A probabilistic approach -- Simulating greenhouse growth in urban zoning on the coast of Granada (Spain) -- Greenhouses, land use change, and predictive models: MaxEnt and Geomod working together -- Modelling intra-urban dynamics in the Savassi neighbourhood, Belo Horizonte city, Brazil -- Creation and evaluation of development scenarios for metropolitan patterns -- Towards a set of IPCC SRES urban land use scenarios: modelling urban land use in the Madrid region.
Keywords: Environmental monitoring; Regional planning; Urban planning; Earth sciences; Environmental management; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Climate change; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Earth Sciences, general; Environmental Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Climate Change