Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture

Part I. Concepts and Approaches

1. Coupling Landscape Patterns and Ecological Processes
Bojie Fu, Changhong Su, Yihe Lü

2. Strengthening Landscape Ecology’s Contribution to a Sustainable Environment
Clive A. McAlpine, Leonie M. Seabrook, Tiffany H. Morrison, Jonathan R. Rhodes

3. Urban Landscape Ecology: Past, Present, and Future
Jianguo Wu, Chunyang He, Ganlin Huang, Deyong Yu

4. Biocultural Diversity for Sustainable Ecological, Cultural and Sacred Landscapes: The Biocultural Landscape Approach
Gloria Pungetti

5. Using Ecosystem Services in Community-Based Landscape Planning: Science is Not Ready to Deliver
Paul Opdam

6. Effects of Global Household Proliferation on Ecosystem Services

Jianguo Liu

Part II. Landscape Modeling

7. Bringing Climate Change Science to the Landscape Level: Canadian Experience in Using Landscape Visualisation Within Participatory Processes for Community Planning
Stephen R. J. Sheppard, Alison Shaw, David Flanders, Sarah Burch, Olaf Schroth

8. Watershed Scale Physically Based Water Flow, Sediment and Nutrient Dynamic Modeling System
Billy E. Johnson, Zhonglong Zhang, Charles W. Downer

9. Simulation of River Flow for Downstream Water Allocation in the Heihe River Watershed, Northwest China
Chansheng He, Lanhui Zhang, Li Fu, Yi Luo, Lanhai Li, Carlo DeMarchi

10. Evaluating the Transport and Fate of Nutrients in Large Scale River Basins Using an Integrated Modeling System
Zhonglong Zhang, May Wu

11. Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis for Landscape Pattern Characterization
Xiaojun Yang, Bojie Fu, Liding Chen

Part III. Landscape Planning and Management

12. Discursive Relationships Between Landscape Science, Policy and Management Practice: Concepts, Issues and Examples
Simon Swaffield, Jorgen Primdahl, Mark Hoversten

13. Planning Multifunctional Measures for Efficient Landscape Management: Quantifying and Comparing the Added Value of Integrated and Segregated Management Concepts
Carolin Galler, Christina Haaren, Christian Albert

14. The Structure and Dynamics of Agricultural Landscapes as Drivers of Biodiversity

Francoise Burel, Stephanie Aviron, Jacques Baudry, Violette Le Féon, Chloe Vasseur

15. Forest Influences on Climate and Water Resources at the Landscape to Regional Scale
Ge Sun, Yongqiang Liu

16. Are We Destroying Our Insurance Policy? The Effects of Alien Invasion and Subsequent Restoration

Alanna J. Rebelo, David Maitre, Karen J. Esler, Richard M. Cowling

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Nature Conservation, Biodiversity, Environmental Management