Modelling environmental dynamics advances in geometric solutions

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental and complex dynamics. Based on this introduction this book illustrates various models applied to a large variety of themes: deforestation in tropical regions, fire risk, natural reforestation in European mountains, agriculture, biodiversity, urbanism, climate change and land management for decision support, etc. These case studies, provided by a large international spectrum of researchers and presented in a uniform structure, focus particularly on methods and model validation so that this book is not only aimed at researchers and graduates but also at professionals.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Paegelow, Martin editor, Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa editor/a
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, German Springer-Verlag c201
Subjects:	Deforestación, Cambio climático, Uso de la tierra, Evaluación de riesgos, Impacto ambiental, Agricultura intensiva, Ecología urbana,
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