Editors:
- commissioned chapters aim to cover the role of large intact natural areas in
- modern conservation (systems, people, communities, resilience, ecosystem
- services, large scale processes, connectivity, etc.)
- Chapters organised into concepts, techniques and applications
- Provides an overview of GIS and related technologies in the mapping and modelling of wilderness and wild land environments across a range of spatial scales
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom
Stephen J. Carver
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Ecosystem Services and Mgmt, Int’l Inst Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Steffen Fritz
About the editors
Steve Carver
Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds.
Steffen Fritz
Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Wilderness
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Techniques and Applications
Editors: Stephen J. Carver, Steffen Fritz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7399-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7397-3Published: 19 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1342-7Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7399-7Published: 09 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography