Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction: Landscape balance and landscape assessment

   • Rudolf Krönert, Martin Volk, Uta Steinhardt

   Pages 1-22

3. History of landscape assessment

   • Eckhard Müller, Martin Volk

   Pages 23-46

4. Databases, data organization and data processing

   • Annegret Kindler, Ellen Banzhaf

   Pages 47-85

5. Researching state and dynamics in landscape using remote sensing

   • Ellen Banzhaf

   Pages 87-112

6. The analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape structures

   • Angela Lausch, Hans-Hermann Thulke

   Pages 113-136

7. Scales and spatio-temporal dimensions in landscape research

   • Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk

   Pages 137-162

8. Landscape balance

   • Martin Volk, Uta Steinhardt

   Pages 163-202

9. Landscape assessment

   • Burghard Meyer

   Pages 203-249

10. Landscape function assessment and regional planning: Creating knowledge bases for sustainable landscape development

    • Daniel Petry

    Pages 251-280

11. Decision support for land use changes — A combination of methods for policy advising and planning

    • Bernd Klauer, Burghard Meyer, Helga Horsch, Frank Messner, Ralf Grabaum

    Pages 281-297

12. Back Matter

    Pages 299-304

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During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and practical application. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. They show first approaches for the inclusion of factors of the landscape balance into planning procedures and new methods (GIS-coupled modeling, remote sensing) combined with more classical approaches from the basis of landscape assessment. Approaches for multicriterial landscape assessments are also presented. The overall target is to give recommendations for sustainable landuse and management. Each chapter concludes with a synthesis of the theme under discussion. Ideas concerning the state of the art are integrated as well as future trends in research. All methodological approaches are explained, with examples from differing regions.

• Environmental Sciences
• GIS
• Geography
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Landscape Planning
• databases
• development
• ecology
• integration
• organization
• remote sensing
• sustainable development
• temporal dynamics
• ecotoxicology
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Applied Landscape Ecology, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

  Rudolf Krönert, Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk

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