Territorial Analysis of Environments


SCIENCES - Physical Geography, Construction of Environments and Landscapes

Territorial Analysis of Environments

Edited by

Etienne Cossart, Université Lyon 3, France.
Anne Rivière-Honegger, CNRS, France.


ISBN : 9781789451986

Publication Date : November 2024

Hardcover 250 pp

165.00 USD

Co-publisher

Description


Territories are currently faced with a wide range of environmental challenges, but suffer from a lack of access to the information and biophysical data that characterizes these challenges.

Territorial Analysis of Environments sheds light on how the data produced on environmental change needs to be processed, completed and disseminated so that local players can take ownership of it. The aim is to present methods for developing local, regional or even global indicators of the changes underway, as well as to understand the logic of the players acting in a given area.

To this end, this book places great emphasis on the notions of systems and the modeling approaches used to formalize them. It also presents the data available, and the methods for developing an analysis of their spatial dimension. This is based on a wide range of case studies, combining environmental data and stakeholder games.

Contents


Part 1. Interactions and Flows: The Integration of Time.
1. Environmental Issues at the Territorial Level, Etienne Cossart.
2. Temporalities of Environmental Changes, Etienne Cossart.
3. Simulating Future Environmental Changes and Their Impacts, Matthieu Vignal.
4. Representations of the Flows Generated by Urban Lifestyle, Natacha Gondran.

Part 2. Integration of Stakeholder Dynamics.
5. Interactions Among Stakeholders Regarding Environmental Issues, Muriel Maillefert and Anne Rivière-Honegger.
6. Integration of Participatory Science into Modeling Approaches, Marc Bourgeois, Yohan Sahraoui, Julie Codina and Pierre-Olivier Mazagol.

Part 3. Modeling Complex Environmental Systems.
7. Modeling Anthropogenic Erosive Systems, Brian Chaize, Aurélien Christol, Etienne Cossart, Mathieu Fressard and Jessica Pic.
8. Modeling Landscape Connectivity and Ecological Networks, Marc Bourgeois.

About the authors/editors


Etienne Cossart is a university professor and Director of the Environnement Ville Société Laboratory at the Université Lyon 3, France, specializing in physical geography.

Anne Rivière-Honegger is a CNRS Research Director on environmental management and related collective practices.