A Changing World: Challenges for Landscape Research

by Otto Wildi, Sucharita Ghosh, Felix Kienast

Book Overview

Landscape Research is established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Modern landscape research uses mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories from ecology, physics, geography, social science and so on. Knowledge is thus updated and quantified via models that are used for estimation, hypothesis testing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048123909
• ISBN13: 9789048123902
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"