The Long-Term Perspective of Human Impact on Landscape for Environmental Change and Sustainability

• Auteur principal: Florenzano, Assunta (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Mercuri, Anna (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Sujets: Environmental economics; oasis; Late Holocene; n/a; DISP; spatio-temporal pattern; medieval age; Tarim Basin; forestland governance; arable land; Côte d'Ivoire; landscape change; landscape change index; livestock; middle and lower reaches of Shule River Basin; human-induced; land use change; vegetation change; land cover; climate change; Deforestation; mitigation; eco-fragile area; development; native forest; agricultural oasis expansion; cities; central Spain; wetland; vegetation cover; urbanization; human activity intensity; sustainability; dike-ponds; case study; army; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; paleoecology; farming radius; peace; landscape transformation; Shunde District; archaeological sites; late Holocene; NPPs; pollen; soil carbon; NDVI; Costa Rica; land politics; historical land-cover/use change; grasslands; land use; land reconstruction; China; land-use intensity; Northeast China; resilience; landscape dynamics; palaeoecology; political tradition; forest landscape; African politics; pasture indicators; land use changes; Landsat; mid-mountains; climate; RESTREND; driving forces; carbon neutral; Mediterranean; environment; Horqin Sandy Land; southern Italy; land-use degree; flood management
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human-climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (258 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-03921-797-7
9783039217960
9783039217977

Accès

Open Access