Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes The Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora

Name: Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes The Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora
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ISBN: 9781559632249

ISBN-10: 1559632240

ISBN-13: 9781559632249

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Carl Steinitz, Hector Arias, Scott Bassett, Michael Flaxman, Thomas Goode

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Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area of various land-use planning and management decisions. The results of such projections, and the approach itself, are known as "alternative futures." Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapespresents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures projectan analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The area is internationally…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 202
Size: 11.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Figures


Foreword


Preface



Alternative Futures for a Changing Region



The Upper San Pedro River Basin



The Framework for Alternative Futures Studies



The Organization of the Research



Natural and Cultural History



The Issues for Research



The Scenarios for Change



The Development Model



The Hydrological Model



The Vegetation Model



The Landscape Ecological Pattern Model



Single Species Potential Habitat Models



Threatened and Endangered Species Potential Habitat



The Vertebrate Species Richness and GAP Species Models



The Visual Preference Model



Summary of Impacts



Testing the Alternative Futures



Conclusions



The Scenarios Guide



The Computational Process


References


Acknowledgements


About the Authors


Index