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Remote Sensing and GIS in Peri-Urban Research

Perspectives on Global Change, Sustainability and Resilience

  • 1st Edition, Volume 11 - September 5, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mehebub Sahana
  • Language: English

Remote Sensing and GIS in Peri-Urban Research: Perspectives on Global Change, Sustainability and Resilience, Eleventh Edition provides the most recent methods and technique… Read more

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Researchers and academics in the fields of remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis, urban geography, urban studies and environmental sciences

Table of contents

Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change

1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas

2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics

3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change

4. Landscape ecological analysis

5. Urban growth and fringe development

6. Rural-urban linkages

Section II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics

7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns

8. Urban form, structure and landscape function

9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes

10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture

11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradation

Section III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services

12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation

13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies

14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface

15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban

16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban

17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface

18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestration

Section IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management

19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries

20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions

21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface

22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas

23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 11
  • Published: September 5, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

MS

Mehebub Sahana

Prof Mehebub Sahana is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in GIS in the Department of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK. He is a cultural and environmental geographer with an interest in analysing land-use changes. Conceptually, his work focuses on landscape alterations and consequences on sustainability issues in developing countries. His present research interests include social-environmental interface, socio-ecological resilience and systems thinking; land cover change; rural-urban conversion and the socio-political implications of land-use dynamics. Dr Sahana contributes as a specialist analyst to the Peri-cene project that investigates peri-urbanization and climate risk in city-regions around the world.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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