Download or read book Strategic Landscape Monitoring And Information written by Geoff Groom and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.
Download or read book Current Trends in Landscape Research written by Lothar Mueller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century. The book brings together views on landscapes from leading international teams and emerging authors from different scientific disciplines and regions of the globe. It describes approaches for achieving sustainability and for handling the multifunctionality of landscapes and includes international case studies demonstrating the great potential of landscape research to provide partial sustainable solutions while developing cultural landscapes and protecting semi-natural landscapes. It is intended for scientists from various disciplines as well as informed readers dealing with landscape policies, planning, evolvement, management, stewardship and conservation.
Download or read book Landscape Monitor written by Tony Davila and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landscape Monitor presents a new management concept for innovators, strategists and entrepreneurs to gather, analyze and get insights from events happening around the organization. For innovators, Landscapes create a much richer sandbox of ideas before launching an innovation initiative. Creativity is about bringing together ideas unrelated ideas. The richer the idea sandbox, the higher the quality of ideas and the better the outcomes of innovation initiatives. The Landscape Monitor sits at the forefront of the innovation process to get this high quality sandbox. Often, innovation initiatives start with ideas. This starting point turns off lots of people either because they don't thnik they have good ideas or they are worried about what people are going to say about ideas. With the Landscape concept, innovation starts with observation, no need to come up with ideas, they will come later. For strategists, the Landscape Monitor sits at the beginning of the strategic planning process: analyzing changes in the environment. The complexity of markets and societies is several times larger than the complexity inside organizations. Yet, we have great ERPs for the inside, but we rely on intuition and crude tools to think about the outside. The Landscape Monitor gives a framework to constantly evaluate events and emerging trends. Entrepreneurs face uncertainty about the structure of the market that they intend to compete and the business model of their startup. Gathering information to reduce these two uncertainties is critical. The Landscape Monitor helps entrepreneurs deal with these uncertainties and design more robust startups. The Landscape Monitor is based on four principles: 1-map the landscape around your company, 2-crowdsource, rely on people to gather and analyze information, 3-use the talent you so carefully hire not only to execute but also to explore, and 4-capture events from personal experience as well as public sources
Download or read book Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources written by Neil McKenzie and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia.
Download or read book PC Mag written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-02-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.
Download or read book PC Mag written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PCMag.com is a leading authority on technology, delivering Labs-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. Our expert industry analysis and practical solutions help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology.
Download or read book Landscape Differences written by Harri Andersson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Landscapes written by Andre Botequilha Leitao and published by . This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring Landscapes introduces a powerful set of concepts and tools, known as landscape metrics, for making conservation and development decisions. These metrics include: patch richness, class area proportion, mean patch size, radius of gyration, contagion, edge contrast, proximity, among others. Taken together, they measure a landscape's structure, form, and change over time, and bring solid scientific data to land use decisions. Measuring Landscapes thus serves to bridge the gap between scientists who study the health of landscapes and the planners and conservationists working to create livable places and environmentally sound habitats. Book jacket.
Download or read book Forests in Landscapes written by Stewart Maginnis and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground? CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public? JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders? ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR
Download or read book Hydropedology written by Henry Lin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry, and carbon sequestration. Hydropedology brings together pedology (soil characteristics) with hydrology (movement of water) to understand and achieve the goals now associated with modern soil science. The first book of its kind in the market Highly interdisciplinary, involving new thinking and synergistic approaches Stimulating case studies demonstrate the need for hydropedology in various practical applications Future directions and new approaches are present to advance this emerging interdisciplinary science
Download or read book Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists to follow to design a statistically defensible monitoring program. User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readable format. The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address the current, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmental fields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology, and wildlife management. Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management. Defines important terminology and contrasts monitoring with other data-collection activities. Covers the applicable principles of sampling and shows how to design a monitoring project. Provides a step-by-step overview of the monitoring process, illustrated by flow charts and references. The authors also offer guidelines for analyzing and interpreting monitoring data. Illustrates the foundation of management objectives and describes their components, types, and development. Describes common field techniques for measuring important attributes of animal and plant populations. Reviews different methods for recording monitoring data in the field, managing the data, and communicating data to policy makers.
Download or read book Multifunctional Landscapes written by Jesper Brandt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes on the subject of multifunctional landscapes highlights the monitoring of multifunctional terrestrial landscapes, biodiversity versus landscpae diversity in multifunctional landscapes, and complexity of landscape management.
Download or read book Landscape Indicators written by Claudia Cassatella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years EU policy towards the ‘landscape’ has become better defined, whereas at the same time the notion of ‘landscape’ itself remains elusive. The need for indicators to evaluate and monitor the effects of landscape policies and plans is urgent. What is more, landscape is one of the components considered in environmental reporting, but unlike air, soil, or water, it is difficult to measure using quantitative methods. With studies on landscape indicators being as rare as they are, this volume is an attempt to fill the gap, dealing as it does with the definition and use of specific indicators for landscape assessment and monitoring. To tackle the diverse dimensions of the landscape (whose complexity is well known), the subject is approached by a multidisciplinary team of experts in landscape ecology, landscape history, landscape perception, regional planning, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment procedures, and multi-criteria assessment methods. Individual chapters include comparative assessments of studies conducted thus far in the EU, as well as detailed analyses of ecological, historical, perceptive, land-use, and economic ways of looking at landscape. As well as providing a rich source of references for researchers studying the landscape from a variety of perspectives, the book will be required reading for European officials involved at any level in planning or assessing the landscape or environment.
Download or read book Interior Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2006 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pirone s Tree Maintenance written by John R. Hartman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe general maintenance practices such as planting, pruning, fertilising, repairing and diagnosing and managing tree problems followed by an extensive section on the diagnosis and control of specific tree pests and diseases.
