Landscape Indicators Assessing and Monitoring Landscape Quality

About this book

This volume deals with the definition and use of specific indicators for landscape assessment and monitoring. To tackle the diverse dimensions of the landscape, the subject is approached by a multidisciplinary team of experts in landscape ecology, landscape history, landscape perception, regional planning, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment procedures, and multi-criteria assessment methods. Individual chapters include comparative assessments of studies conducted thus far in the EU, as well as detailed analyses of ecological, historical, perceptive, land-use, and economic ways of looking at landscape.

Contents

Foreword.- 1. Landscape Assessment and Monitoring.- 2. Indicators Assessment Systems.- 3. Indicators Used for Landscape.- 4. Landscape Assessment: the Ecological Profile.- 5. Indicators for the Assessment of Historic Landscape Features.- 6. Measuring Visual and Social Perceptions.- 7. Land Use Indicators for Landscape Assessment.- 8. Assessing the Economic Aspects of Landscape.- 9. Proposal for a Set of Indicators.- List of abbreviations.- Index.

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