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Over the centuries, the population growth led inhabitants to pass the second wall, when it existed, and to invade the nearest surroundings in a, at the beginning, moderate process, which was later accelerated by the effects of the industrial revolution. Pablo Arias (2003), while revising urban history concludes that from the Roman city up to […]

As a broad time context following there is a selection of urban development milestones, commenting on them their particularities in relation to the landscape first represented as a menace from outside and later as an injured party of urban growth. 2.1 Walled towns When ancient settlements, through the specialization of jobs, grew into villages and […]

Gloria Aponte Pontifical Bolivarian University Colombia 1. Introduction The so-called urban-rural borders represent a territorial phenomenon that presents itself as different kinds of landscape, according to the social dynamics of each settlement. Some of those are representative of their historical sprout or boom time, and others of their location. Urban-rural borders represent nowadays a very […]

The rapid technical evolution in combination with internet technologies (e. g. Web 2.0) offers a chance for more collaboration and participation. New hardware like smart phones or tablet pc’s with integrated GNSS facilitate the development of location based services or location sensitive services. They can be used for collecting data by the public (e. g. […]

Since ESRI started the GeoDesign Summit in 2010 the term started his triumphal procession. But what is GeoDesign? According to MICHAEL FLAXMAN (2010) "GeoDesign is a design and planning method which tightly couples the creation of a design proposal with impact simulations informed by geographic context". The idea is that the planner or designer receives […]

Based on the inventory and evaluation process objectives and if necessary alternative objectives must be developed (Bfn 2002; von Haaren, 2004). A methodology to meet these requirements is to define for each landscape function (e. g. species/habitats/biotopes) two categories. All patches in the first category are most suitable for the defined function. All other land […]

The results of the landscape planning process are planned objectives or planned measures to be implemented into town and country planning, sectoral plans or executed by executive agencies (e. g. public institutions, conservation authorities, private individuals) (BfN, 2002; Riedel & Lange, 2001). Therefore landscape planning must be extended from an expert planning to a process-oriented […]

Land use change and the physical and functional disconnection of ecological networks represent one of the driving forces of biodiversity loss (Zetterberg et al., 2010; Bundesamt fur Naturschutz, 2004; Spangenberg, 2007; Reck et al., 2010). Beside a lot of different methodologies (see Fig. 8) network analysis and graph theory provide powerful tools and methods for […]

In conservation biology and conservation planning there is a great diversity of GIS-based species distribution, habitat or population models (Blaschke, 1997; Blaschke, 2003; Taeger, 2010; Guisan & Zimmermann, 2000; Gontier, 2007; Gontier et al., 2010; Pietsch et al., 2007; Amler et al., 1999). Habitat suitability models based on empirical data versus models based on expert […]

Analyzing landscape functions (e. g. soil erosion) different information (e. g. land use, gradient, rainfall) must be taken in consideration. Using scientific-based methods the potential, risk or existing conflicts can be calculated. Depending on the selected methodology and the available information / datasets multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) is a very powerful tool. Therefore a reduction of […]