This book examines environmental security from the perspective of landscape sciences, identifying the forces that threaten environmental security at all levels. It stems from the last five years of the Pilot Study Project on Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Readers explore concepts of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives.

Inhalt

• Environmental Security and Landscape Ecology.- Contributions of Landscape Sciences to the Development of Environmental Security.- Landscape Ecology and Environmental Security: basic concepts and regional applications for the Medit.- Landscape management for environmental security: some perspectives of adaptive management approaches.- The policy framework GMES as a guideline for the integration of environmental security research and landscape sciences.- - Landscape Science Methodologies to Assess Environmental Security.- Investigating landscape patterns in protected areas using aster images.- Quantifying and Qualifying Urban Green by Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Social Science Method.- Allometric scaling as an indicator of ecosystem state: a new approach.- - Landscape Indicators and Landscape Change Detection.- Deriving the spatial traits of organized land structures.- Landscape monitoring as a tool in improving environmental security.- Landscapes of the natural park "Vepssky Forest".- Multi-temporal coastal zone landscape change detection using remote sensing imagery and in situ data.- Landscape character as a framework for the assessment of environmental change.- - Integrated Studies of Catchments and Basins.- An ecohydrological approach for the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services.- Environmental quality and landscape-hazard assessment in the Yantra River Basin, Bulgaria.- The influence of catchment land cover on phosphorus balance for large freshwater systems.- The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the pacific northwest (USA).- Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data.- - Assessments of Human-Environmental Systems in Landscapes.-Demographic impacts on landscape change - a conceptual view of global demographic trends.- Land use impacts of demographic change - lessons from Eastern German urban regions.- The consequences of demographic change in Rhineland-Palatinate: scenarios of landscape consumption for settlement and transportation areas.- Landscape, demographic developments, biodiversity, and sustainable land use strategy: a case study on karaburun peninsula izmir, turkey.- Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a Case Study and planning tool for mulfingen, a municipality in South Germany.- Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes.- Fostering ecosystem services' security by both objective and subjective analyses: the case of a natural protected area in Southern Italy.- Environmental assessing of reindeer herding in changing landscapes on different scales.- - Environmental Applications of Landscape Ecological Methods - Impact Assessments.- The contribution of quality assessment of eroded agricultural soil on hilly-undulating landscapes to sustainable community development.- Nuclear safety and its impact on the level of environmental security in Ukraine.- Environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental restoration: the case study of Cop?a-Mic? area, romania.- Landscape approaches to assess environmental security: summary, conclusions, and recommendations.