Overview
- Presents the foundations of modern rural analysis leading to a complete management scheme for rural landscapes and its application to an actual case
- Includes topics such as global change, the role of information technologies in rural areas, gender relations and how to bridge the gap between scientific analysis and decision-making processes
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Methodological Notes on Analysis, Synthesis and Management
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Elements of the Analysis
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Rural Management – The Applied Approach
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Francisco J. Tapiador is senior scientist in Earth Sciences and lectures in the Department of Environmental Sciences at UCLM (Toledo, Spain). He graduated in Geography and holds a master's degree in Cadastral Cartography and a PhD in Physics. He has worked as professional geographer in large regional development projects, developing both guidelines and policies for regional and rural planning, and implementing geographical information and management systems. His research in rural issues spans from Climate Change to Historical GIS and Remote Sensing, having written more than 50 research papers in the last 5 years. His findings have been published in highly cited journals (Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Geophysical Research Letters and International Journal of Remote Sensing, amongst others). He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Barcelona (Spain), Cambridge (UK) and The Sorbonne (France).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rural Analysis and Management
Book Subtitle: An Earth Science Approach to Rural Science
Authors: Francisco J. Tapiador
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73343-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73342-3Published: 04 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09237-4Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73343-0Published: 28 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 347
Topics: Ecotoxicology, Earth Sciences, general, Environmental Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geoecology/Natural Processes