Use Of Landscape Sciences For The Assessment Of Environmental Security

This book focuses on the relationship between environmental security andlandscape assessment. It is the fruit of experiences incubated during the lastfive years... » 

This book focuses on the relationship between environmental security andlandscape assessment. It is the fruit of experiences incubated during the lastfive years in the context of the Pilot Study Project on Use of LandscapeSciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on theChallenges of Modern Society. The growing knowledge about environmental changestress and degradation has increased the visibility of environmental conditionas an important determinant of security. The relationship between environmentand security now is a common interest among both the scientific and policymaking communities supported by the fand political sovereignty have beenrevisited following the changes in the act that the traditional securityconcepts based on territorial integrity geopolitical landscape at the end ofthe last century. In this volume environmental security is described from theviewpoint of landscape sciences. This approach is particularly suitable becauselandscapes are comprised of the abiotic and biotic ecological structures andprocesses of an area and their interrelations with the socioeconomiccomponent. Written in an accessible style this book discusses the concept ofenvironmental security from subjective and objective perspectives usingdifferent approaches and tools typical of landscape assessment. «