: Christopher Pettit, William Cartwright, Ian Bishop, Kim Lowell, David Pullar, David Duncan
: Christopher Pettit, William Cartwright, Ian Bishop, Kim Lowell, David Pullar, David Duncan
: Landscape Analysis and Visualisation Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning
: Springer-Verlag
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Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched. Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes. Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as in Australia - where landscapes dominate and their relationship to cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives - perhaps it could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities and never see the landscapes - but it is these that give the country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention in the world threatens its very existence.
Preface5
Contents9
Contributors21
Abbreviations31
INTRODUCTION33
1 Understanding Landscapes through Knowledge Management Frameworks, Spatial Models, Decision Support Tools and Visualisation34
PART 1 NATURAL RESOURCE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS48
2 Reading between the Lines: Knowledge for Natural Resource Management49
3 Improving the Use of Science in Evidence-based Policy: Some Victorian Experiences in Natural Resource Management58
4 The Catchment Analysis Tool: Demonstratingthe Benefits of Interconnected BiophysicalModels78
5 The Application of a Simple Spatial Multi- Criteria Analysis Shell to Natural Resource Management Decision Making101
6 Platform for Environmental ModellingSupport: a Grid Cell Data Infrastructure for Modellers124
PART 2 INTEGRATING THE ECOLOGYOF LANDSCAPES INTO LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION145
7 Looking at Landscapes for Biodiversity: Whose View Will Do?146
8 Native Vegetation Condition: Site to Regional Assessments164
9 Towards Adaptive Management of Native Vegetation in Regional Landscapes183
10 Revegetation and the Significance of Timelags in Provision of Habitat Resources for Birds207
11 The Application of Genetic Markers to Landscape Management234
12 Scenario Analysis with Performance Indicators: a Case Study for Forest Linkage Restoration257
PART 3 SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS TO LANDSCAPES273
13 Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving Social– Ecological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions274
14 Placing People at the Centre of Landscape Assessment297
15 The Social Landscapes of Rural Victoria325
16 A Decision Aiding System for Predicting People’s Scenario Preferences346
PART 4 LAND USE CHANGE AND SCENARIO MODELLING370
17 Mapping and Modelling Land Use Change: an Application of the SLEUTH Model371
18 Uncertainty in Landscape Models: Sources, Impacts and Decision Making385
19 Assessing Water Quality Impacts of Community Defined Land Use Change Scenarios for the Douglas Shire, Far North Queensland401
20 Analysing Landscape Futures for Dryland Agricultural Areas: a Case Study in the Lower Murray Region of Southern Australia425
21 Applying the What If? Planning Support System for Better Understanding Urban Fringe Growth453
PART 5 LANDSCAPE VISUALISATION473
22 Understanding Place and Agreeing Purpose: the Role of Virtual Worlds474
23 Geographic Landscape Visualisation in Planning Adaptation to Climate Change in Victoria, Australia485
24 Visualising Alternative Futures504
25 Virtual Globes: the Next GIS?523
26 A Virtual Knowledge World for Natural Resource Management547
27 Computer Games for Interacting with a Rural Landscape565
28 Automated Generation of Enhanced Virtual Environments for Collaborative Decision Making Via a Live Link to GIS585
29 Land Use Decision Making in a Virtual Environment604
Index622