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Author:   Stephen J. Carver ,  Steffen Fritz
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   5.022kg
ISBN:  

9789401773973

ISBN 10:   9401773971
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   19 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents.-List of Contributors.-Preface.-Acknowledgments.-Dedication.-1. Introduction.-2. The wilderness continuum concept and its application in Australia:  Lessons for modern conservation.-3. Connectivity, networks, cores and corridors.-4. The Use of Spatial Technology in USDA Forest Service Wilderness Recreation Site Surveys.-5. Wild Vistas : Progress in Computational Approaches to ‘Viewshed’ Analysis.-6. Mapping Human Impact using Crowdsourcing.-7. Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility.-8. Addressing Weak Legal Protection of Wilderness: Deliberate Choices and Drawing Lines on the Map.-9. Unraveling the Coil of the Wild: Geospatial Technology and Wilderness.-10. Wilderness areas in Romania, a case study on the South Western  Carpathians.-11. Purism scale approach for wilderness mapping in Iceland.-12. Is there something wild in Austria?-13. Conclusions.-Author Index.-Subject Index

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Steve Carver Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Steffen Fritz Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.

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