Evaluating landscape health: integrating societal goals and biophysical process
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The combination of the social and natural sciences is necessary in assessing changing landscape health and integrity. The transformation of the landscape is influenced by the interaction of two factors, namely, societal values and biophysical processes. These factors can be understood and explained with the help of the social sciences and the natural sciences, respectively. This important role of these factors in shaping the landscape is illustrated in the analysis of two contrasting case studies on the South Platte River basin in Colorado and the Kissimmee River basin in Florida.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Management
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0301-4797
Year: 1998
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A graph-theoretic analysis of relationships among ecosystem stressors
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Strategies to reduce risk to ecosystems are the focus of environmental protection. However ecosystem risk assessment poses many challenges due to the complexity of ecosystems. Analytical tools based on the mathematical subdiscipline of graph theory can be used to analyse the structure of interactions amongst ecosystem stressors, to complement results acquired from studies focusing specifically on stressor impacts.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Management
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0301-4797
Year: 1999
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