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Addresses the human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or 'anthropogeomorphology'. This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, are considered to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass.

Geomorphology. --- Land use. --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms

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This research investigates the changing landscape and land use in two case studies of the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory of Dominica. By integrating human and ecological aspects of agrarian landscapes, this research analyzes how land degradation or land change impacts cultural ecosystem services, that ultimately disrupts community wellbeing. First, as a primary goal, the research focus is established together with local communities or stakeholders, identifying both direct and indirect causes of landscape change. Second, by using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, but grounded in local participation, the research indicates that landscape change never happens in a vacuum but rather, it is always a part of a larger socio-political context and historical background that must be considered. In both case studies, there remains emphasis on the tangible, as results not only lead to new directions in landscape research but also deliverables used by community stakeholders for continued land sustainability.

Landscape changes. --- Land cover. --- Land use. --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Cover, Land --- Land use --- Change, Landscape --- Geomorphology

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Hendrik Herold explores potentials and hindrances of using retrospective geoinformation for monitoring, communicating, modeling, and eventually understanding the complex and gradually evolving processes of land cover and land use change. Based on a comprehensive review of literature, available data sets, and suggested algorithms, the author proposes approaches for the two major challenges: To address the diversity of geographical entity representations over space and time, image segmentation is considered a global non-linear optimization problem, which is solved by applying a metaheuristic algorithm. To address the uncertainty inherent to both the data source itself as well as its utilization for change detection, a probabilistic model is developed. Experimental results demonstrate the capabilities of the methodology, e.g., for geospatial data science and earth system modeling. Contents Monitoring and Modeling Land Change Geoinformation from Digital Images An Adaptive Map Image Analysis Approach Modeling Uncertainty for Change Analysis Target Groups Researchers, lecturers, and students from the fields of geoscience, geography, urban and landscape ecology, land change science, earth system science, digital humanities Town and country planners, map librarians, historians The Author Hendrik Herold holds a doctoral degree from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, where he studied Geography, Geology, and Meteorology. .

Land use --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geographic information systems. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- History. --- Land use. --- Geography. --- Environmental sciences. --- Geographical information systems. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Geography --- Environmental science --- Science

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land --- policy --- geospatial --- urban --- rural --- geographic information science --- Land use --- Geomorphology --- Geomorphology. --- Government policy --- Government policy. --- Africa. --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Eastern Hemisphere

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This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land. These discussions initiate a new debate on the insufficiency of existing approaches to compensation that are ignorant of the losses of ‘capabilities’ and ‘functionings’. The relationship between land, ownership and well-being of an individual is explained through the identification of various ‘functionings’ associated with the ownership of land in the context of Scotland. Contemporary approaches to compensation, founded on the utilitarian argument, have led to dissatisfactory outcomes for the affected landowners. Discussions in this book shift the focus to equalizing the share of burdens and benefits for each individual member of the society, through equalization of human capabilities. This book will be of value to development economists, researchers, policy makers and law makers concerned with compulsory acquisition of land. Jyoti Rao is an early career researcher pursuing doctoral research at the University of Melbourne. Her primary research interest is in issues related to housing, urban development, and land economics with most of her publications being in related fields. Jyoti is a trained architect, urban planner and real estate professional with experience of working in the industry and in academia.

Land use --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Welfare economics. --- Civil law. --- Welfare state. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Civil Law. --- Politics of the Welfare State. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Law, Civil --- Private law --- Roman law --- Urban geography. --- Geography