Mapping and Forecasting Land Use

The Present and Future of Planning

Paulo Pereira, Eduardo Gomes, Jorge Rocha

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323909471
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323909488
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning is a comprehensive reference on the use of technologies to map land use, focusing on GIS and remote sensing applications and methodologies for land use monitoring. This book addresses transversal topics such as urbanisation, biodiversity loss, climate change, ecosystem services and participatory planning, with the pros and cons of various aerial technologies in mapping and land use. It follows a multidisciplinary approach and provides opinions and evidence from leading researchers working in academic institutions across the globe. The book's second half moves from theory and research advancement into case studies, compiling global examples to provide real-world context and evidence of the techniques and applications. Mapping and Forecasting Land Use is a valuable guide for graduates, academics and researchers in the fields of geography, geographic information science and land use science who want to effectively apply GIS and remote sensing capabilities to mapping or wider land studies. Researchers in geosciences, environmental science and agriculture will also find this of value in utilising 21st-century technologies in their field. - Provides a guide to land use mapping technologies, including GIS and remote sensing - Covers a wide field of interdisciplinary subjects related to GIS applications in land use - Features global case studies alongside exploring theory and current research in the field

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Land-use changes and ecosystem services
• Chapter 2 : Future land use/cover changes and participatory planning
• Chapter 3 : Connecting peri-urban theory with policy: implications for practice
• Chapter 4 : Spatial analysis, geospatial data and land-change models for modelling agricultural land changes
• Chapter 5 : Identifying data challenges to representing human decision-making in large-scale land-use models
• Chapter 6 : Land use change in Italian lowlands: a lesson of landscape transformation, climate change and hydrological extremes
• Chapter 7 : Drivers of land use and land cover changes in South America. A review focused on drylands
• Chapter 8 : Land-use modelling by CLUMondo under contrasting scenarios: a case study in the Yanhe watershed (China)
• Chapter 9 : Land use management for coastal flooding prevention: a participatory simulation platform applied to Camargue (France)
• Chapter 10 : Setting up a Land Use Cover Change model application for Greater Sydney. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead
• Chapter 11 : Future land use/cover change and tourism development: integrating land use policy and tourist decision behaviour
• Chapter 12 : Modelling land use changes and impacts on the visual fragility of a UNESCO Landscape Heritage Site (Viñales, Cuba)
• Chapter 13 : Land use and land cover change future projection in Kolkata Metropolitan Area, Eastern India
• Index
• A