Land Use/Cover and Ecological Security Response Mechanism

Author: Shi Peijun
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is suitable for researchers, managers, and professionals in the fields of geology, ecology, sustainable development research, and resource and environmental management. Land use/cover change is one of the key issues in global change research. This book conducts multi-angle case studies and analyses on the driving forces and ecological impacts of land use/cover change. It first summarizes remote sensing technologies for land use/cover change measurement and their regional application case studies. On this basis, it analyzes and discusses the patterns and driving factors of regional land use/cover change. Then, it explores the impact mechanisms of regional land use/cover change on the ecological environment by examining changes in regional vegetation characteristics, hydrological characteristics, heavy metal pollution, landscape structure, and ecosystem service value. Finally, it conducts research on regional land use/cover change models and simulations, completing a statistical model for the inter-provincial distribution of construction land in China and a model and simulation of urban expansion in the Beijing region.