Description
Remote Sensing and GIS in Peri-Urban Research: Perspectives on Global Change, Sustainability and Resilience, Eleventh Edition provides the most recent methods and techniques, incorporating geoinformatics-based practices to map, evaluate, and model urban landscape attributes and changes. The book provides theory, methodology, and future perspectives of remote sensing and GIS techniques applied to peri-urban modelling, analysis and sustainability through the use of spatio-temporal geospatial datasets. It also includes case studies of real-world data sets, with applicable algorithms, techniques and methods for study.This will be a useful reference for researchers and academics in remote sensing, GIS, and spatial analysis, and environmental or urban scientists wanting to implement remote sensing technologies in their research.- Outlines applications of geospatial technologies for visualization of land use dynamics including spatial information about population distributions, built-up areas and degree of urbanization based on global and local datasets- Provides methodology for identification of peri-urban interfaces using techniques to identify peri-urban space and dynamics using remote sensing and GIS techniques- Includes worldwide case studies by experts from different countries increasing the understanding of the nature of global peri-urbanization and growth
Table of Contents
Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change4. Landscape ecological analysis5. Urban growth and fringe development6. Rural-urban linkagesSection II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns8. Urban form, structure and landscape function9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradationSection III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestrationSection IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions
