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Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Irene Petrosillo

    1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Italy

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  2. Felix Müller

    1. NATO CCMS Co-Director, Ecology Centre, University of Kiel, Germany

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  3. K. Bruce Jones

    1. Geography Discipline, Reston, USA

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  4. Giovanni Zurlini

    1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Italy

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  5. Kinga Krauze

    1. International Centre for Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

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  6. Sergey Victorov

    1. Research Institute of Remote Sensing Methods for Geology, Russia

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  7. Bai-Lian Li

    1. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

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  8. William G. Kepner

    1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, USA

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  • Compiles the most up-to-date landscape approaches and tools useful for the assessment of environmental security, a worldwide issue of social, economic, environmental and institutional importance
  • Contributes to a new perspective of the environmental security combining subjective and objective assessment of environmental risk in the context of social-ecological landscapes
  • Identifies the actual main driving forces (demography, land-use, industry) that can threat environmental security at local, national and international scale
  • Introduces the new concept of "securability"

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Introduction – Integrated Studies of Catchments and Basins

    1. The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the pacific northwest (USA)

      • William G. Kepner, Mariano Hernandez, Darius Semmens, David C. Goodrich
      Pages 237-261

    2. Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data

      • K. Bruce Jones, Sharon Hamann, Maliha S. Nash, Annie C. Neale, William G. Kepner, Timothy G. Wade et al.
      Pages 263-316

  2. Introduction – Assessments of Human-Environmental Systems in Landscapes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-318
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    2. Demographic impacts on landscape change – a conceptual view of global demographic trends

      • Frank Swiaczny
      Pages 319-328

    3. Land use impacts of demographic change – lessons from Eastern German urban regions

      • Dagmar Haase, Ralf Seppelt, Annegret Haase
      Pages 329-344

    4. The consequences of demographic change in Rhineland-Palatinate: scenarios of landscape consumption for settlement and transportation areas

      • Jamill Sabbagh, Marco Neef
      Pages 345-356

    5. Landscape, demographic developments, biodiversity, and sustainable land use strategy: a case study on karaburun peninsula izmir, turkey

      • Engin Nurlu, Umit Erden, Munitor Ozturk, Aykut Guvensen, Tevfik Turk
      Pages 357-368

    6. Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a Case Study and planning tool for mulfingen, a municipality in South Germany

      • Roman Lenz, Angelika Jany
      Pages 369-381

    7. Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes

      • Giovanni Zurlini, Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, Riitters H. Kurt
      Pages 383-398

    8. Fostering ecosystem services’ security by both objective and subjective analyses: the case of a natural protected area in Southern Italy

      • Giovanni Zurlini, Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, Teodoro Semeraro
      Pages 399-411

    9. Environmental assessing of reindeer herding in changing landscapes on different scales

      • Timo Kumpula, Benjamin Burkhard, Felix Müller
      Pages 413-427

  3. Introduction – Environmental Applications of Landscape Ecological Methods – Impact Assessments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 429-430
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    2. The contribution of quality assessment of eroded agricultural soil on hilly-undulating landscapes to sustainable community development

      • Benediktas Jankauskas, Genovaite Jankauskiene, Algimantas Tiknius
      Pages 431-451

    3. Nuclear safety and its impact on the level of environmental security in Ukraine

      • Vladimir Kuznyetsov
      Pages 453-459

    4. Environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental restoration: the case study of Copşa-Mică area, romania

      • Octavian-Liviu Muntean, Lucian Drăgut, Nicolae Baciu, Titus Man, Liviu Buzilă, Ioan Ferencik
      Pages 461-474

    5. Landscape approaches to assess environmental security: summary, conclusions, and recommendations

      • Felix Müller, K. Bruce Jones, Kinga Krauze, Bai-Lian Li, Sergey Victorov, Irene Petrosillo et al.
      Pages 475-486

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 487-497
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The assessment of land use and land cover is an important activity for cont- porary land management. Human land-use practices are the most significant factors influencing environmental management at local, regional, national, and global scales. In the past, environmental policies have often reflected a reactive response to environmental perturbations with management efforts focused on short-term, local-scale problems such as pollutant abatement. Currently, environmental management philosophy is evolving toward examination of critical environmental problems over larger spatial scales and assessment of the cumulative risk resulting from multiple problem sources. Today’s environmental managers, urban planners, and decision-makers are increasingly expected to examine environmental and economic problems in a larger geographic context that crosses national boundaries and scientific disciplines. Secondly, cont- porary policy-makers have also been challenged on how they view security. The conventional definition of national security has been expanded to include environmental threats resulting from resource scarcity and overpopulation and it is recognized that environmental factors may have an impact in creating conflict and world instability. Thus the working definition of security has been broadened beyond relying on militaristic aspects alone and has evolved to include the environment. In 1969, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) partly in response to examine the link between environmental issues and security. CCMS was created for the purpose of addressing problems affecting the environment of the member nations and the quality of life of their citizens.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Italy

    Irene Petrosillo, Giovanni Zurlini

  • NATO CCMS Co-Director, Ecology Centre, University of Kiel, Germany

    Felix Müller

  • Geography Discipline, Reston, USA

    K. Bruce Jones

  • International Centre for Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

    Kinga Krauze

  • Research Institute of Remote Sensing Methods for Geology, Russia

    Sergey Victorov

  • Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Bai-Lian Li

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, USA

    William G. Kepner

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