Modelling Landscape Dynamics: Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity

ISBN-13: 9783658424954 / Angielski

Fivos Papadimitriou

Spis treści

 

1.      Landscape

Stability, Complexity, Sustainability and Resilience

What is

landscape stability and what is landscape complexity? How landscape

geomorphology and landscape ecology are related to landscape stability and

complexity? What is landscape sustainability and when is a landscape resilient?

                          

2.      Systems Modelling

of Landscape Dynamics

 Modelling landscape dynamics for landscape

stability analysis: for first time ever, the dynamical systems approach is

applied to landscape analysis, methodically, with innovative routines that can

be followed by a geographer or landscape scientist in order to analyze and

predict long-term landscape dynamics from cartographic information.

 

3.     The Analytic Model of Landscape Dynamics

 Modelling

landscape dynamics for landscape stability analysis: for first time ever, an

analytic model is presented in the literature describing landscape dynamics

with analytic methods

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4.     Stability, Topology and Energy Dissipation in Landscape

Dynamics

On the basis

of an application to a landscape of Greece, two aspects of landscape dynamics

are explored from a landscape’s stability analysis: topology and energy dissipation.

These completely new methods make use of maps of landscape change and are

useful for deriving qualitative properties of sub-systems involved in the

overall dynamics of a landscape.

 

5.      Landscape

Ecologies with Complex Dynamics

Methods for

analyzing landscape stability of physical and digital landscapes with

non-linear behaviors, complex dynamics and other characteristics of complex

systems (bifurcations, attractors, chaos etc). For first time ever, landscape

change is examined by means of complex dynamical systems models.

 

6.     Stochastic Modelling of Landscape Dynamics

 Modelling landscape dynamics for landscape

and predicting future land cover/land use allocations by means of stochastic

modelling

 

 7.  Environmental Stochasticity

and Landscape Phase Transitions

How to model the loss of landscape

stability due to random environmental 

disturbances? What general models describe phase transitions of

landscape states (from unstable to stable, from organized to disordered etc) and

how does the interplay of determinism and randomness affect them?

 

8.  Complexity, Non-Locality and Riddled

Landscape Dynamics

Models of non-linear interactions, models combining

determinism with stochasticity and peculiar properties of riddled landscape

dynamics, examined in a way that has never been examined before. Why assessing

landscape dynamics may entail hard problems and what are the repercussions of

this for landscape analysis? (i.e. what landscape management of landscape

planning can be done when a landscape’s complexity is intractable?).

O autorze

Dr. Dr. Fivos Papadimitriou is at the University of Tübingen and he is the author of “Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis” (Springer VS) and “Spatial Complexity: Theory, Mathematical Methods and Applications” (Springer).

Blurb

This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics. 

It is systematically shown how mathematical models of progressively higher complexity can be derived from ordinary landscape maps and related data in ways that enable researchers to predict future landscape transformations and to assess landscape stability, sustainability and resilience.

These models are deterministic (i.e. linear or non-linear systems of differential equations), stochastic (i.e. Markovian), or combined deterministic-and-stochastic (using stochastic differential equations), whereas topics and challenging problems related to complexity (spatial randomness, chaotic behaviors, riddled systems etc) are also examined in the book.

The author

Dr. Dr. Fivos Papadimitriou is at the University of Tübingen and he is the author of “Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis” (Springer VS) and “Spatial Complexity: Theory, Mathematical Methods and Applications” (Springer).