Overview

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are essential to ensure a sustainable society and healthy ecosystem over the coming decades. However, the systems to be managed are both broad and complex, requiring an integrated understanding of both bio-physical systems, such as soils and water, and economic and social systems, such as urban development and human behaviour. This edited book joins these domains of knowledge together from an applied perspective and considers how computer science can help. It takes a strategic look at the benefits and barriers to using modelling within environmental management and planning practice. It delves further by providing an in-depth comparative review of a wide range of models from a variety of scientific disciplines of interest with examples of their use for NBS. As such, this illustrated guide is designed to help students, researchers and practitioners navigate the huge range of modelling options available and develop the common understanding to work inter-disciplinarily.

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Author:   Neil Sang (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781108428934

ISBN 10:   1108428932
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Neil Sang; 1. Landscape modelling and stakeholder engagement: participatory approaches and landscape visualisation David Miller, Åsa Ode Sang, Iain Brown, Jose Munoz-Rojas, Chen Wang and Gillian Donaldson-Selby; 2. Agent-based models of coupled social and natural systems Jiaqi Ge and Gary Polhill; 3. Modelling nature-based solutions from soil ecosystem services Matthew Aitkenhead; 4. Modelling water resources for nature-based solutions Sarah Dunn; 5. Models at the service of marine nature-based solutions Ioanna Akoumianaki and Arthur Capet; 6. Coastal and freshwater flood models: a review in the context of NBS Neil Sang; 7. Nature-based solutions to urban microclimate regulation Johanna Deak Sjöman and Erik Johansson; 8. Data mining, machine learning and spatial data infrastructures for scenario modelling Neil Sang and Matthew Aitkenhead; 9. Can geodesign be used to facilitate boundary management for planning and implementation of nature-based solutions? Sarah Gottwald, Ron Janssen and Christopher Raymond; 10. Integrating models into practice-recommendations Neil Sang, Ionna Akoumianaki, Matthew Aitkenhead, David Miller and Åsa Ode-Sang; Index.

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Neil S. Sang is a researcher in Geographical Information Science (GIS) at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). His research interests are broad, covering a range of modelling approaches such as GIS, optimisation and AI, simulation modelling, remote sensing, citizen science, and geodesign. Formerly at the James Hutton Institute, UK, he has worked in a wide range of subject areas within socio-environmental science.

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