Remote Sensing and GIS in Peri-Urban Research: Perspectives on Global Change, Sustainability and Resilience, Eleventh Edition provides the most recent methods and techniques, incorporating geoinformatics-based practices to map, evaluate, and model urban landscape attributes and changes. The book provides theory, methodology, and future perspectives of remote sensing and GIS techniques applied to peri-urban modelling, analysis and sustainability through the use of spatio-temporal geospatial datasets. It also includes case studies of real-world data sets, with applicable algorithms, techniques and methods for study. This will be a useful reference for researchers and academics in remote sensing, GIS, and spatial analysis, and environmental or urban scientists wanting to implement remote sensing technologies in their research.
Table of Contents
Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas
2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics
3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change
4. Landscape ecological analysis
5. Urban growth and fringe development
6. Rural-urban linkages
Section II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics
7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns
8. Urban form, structure and landscape function
9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes
10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture
11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradation
Section III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services
12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation
13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies
14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface
15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban
16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban
17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface
18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestration
Section IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management
19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries
20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions
21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface
22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas
23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions
