Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes

1. Ecologies in Protected Areas

   1. Community Aspects of Forest Ecosystems in the Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia

      • Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Heri Suheri, Rizki Amelgia

      Pages 271-287

   2. Landscape Ecology-Based Approach for Assessing Pekarangan Condition to Preserve Protected Area in West Java

      • Regan Leonardus Kaswanto, Nobukazu Nakagoshi

      Pages 289-311

   3. Integrating the Aerial Photos and DTM to Estimate the Area and Niche of Arundo formosana in Jiou-Jiou Peaks Natural Reserve of Taiwan

      • Jeng-I Tsai, Fong-Long Feng

      Pages 313-326

   4. REDD+ Readiness Through Selected Project Activities, Financial Mechanisms, and Provincial Perspectives in Indonesia

      • Ima Yudin Rayaningtyas, Nobukazu Nakagoshi

      Pages 327-347

2. Back Matter

   Pages 349-353

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This book focuses on three major means of achieving a low carbon society: conservation of the ecosystem complex, changes of arrangement of landscapes, and creation of biodiversity. There are specific countermeasures to be taken for carbon absorption in the three types of landscapes—urban, cultural, and natural—because their carbon balances differ. Urban landscapes are promising sites because they have the potential for greening and the creation of biodiversity. Cultural landscapes in the tropics had not been actively researched until recently, but this book now presents a collection of several cases focused on those areas. Natural landscapes had existed in abundance in developing countries; later, nature protection areas were designated to coexist with development. Now, however, developmental pressure has penetrated into those nature protection areas, and landscape ecological projects are urgently required to preserve them.

As a result of global warming, abnormal weather phenomena including super typhoons have occurred frequently in recent years. The major underlying cause is the higher concentration of greenhouse gases released by human activities. As well, major natural absorbers of CO₂ such as forests, wetlands, and coral reefs are shrinking, and the human impact is causing the ecological balance to deteriorate. Controlling CO₂ emissions and expanding the CO₂ absorbers are keys to reducing total CO₂. Low carbon societies can be established by maintaining the original CO₂ balance through integration of multiple tools, with contributions from diverse fields such as physics and chemistry, physiology and humanities, and education. On the basis of an international consensus, the environment must be protected no matter what sacrifices are required. As this book demonstrates, achieving a low carbon society is a top priority, and landscape conservation is the first step in ecological researchtoward that goal.

• Biodiversity
• Ecological Networks
• Landscape Ecology
• Sustainable Energy
• Urban Environment

From the book reviews:

“The book is suitable for researchers, policy makers and town planners. … the book is interesting as it ‘contains several research cases on tropical regions that had not been actively explored in the past’. Readers have the ‘option to choose their favourite chapters according to their individual interests in landscapes’.” (P. C. Abhilash, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 87, 2015)

• Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

  Nobukazu Nakagoshi

• Mindanao State University, Marawi, Philippines

  Jhonamie A. Mabuhay

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