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Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 348
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The experience developed by Ian McHarg represents the first attempt
to base environmental planning on more objective methods. In
particular, he supposed that the real world can be considered as a
layer cake and each layer represents a sectoral analysis. This
metaphor represents the fundamental of overlay mapping. At the
beginning, these principles have been applied only by hand, just
considering the degree of darkness, produced by layer transparency,
as a negative impact. In the following years, this craftmade
approach, has been adopted for data organization in Geographical
Information Systems producing analyses with a high level of quality
and rigour. Nowadays, great part of studies in environmental
planning field have been developed using GIS. The next step
relative to the simple use of geographic information in supporting
environmental planning is the adoption of spatial simulation
models, which can predict the evolution of phenomena. As the use of
spatial information has definitely improved the quality of data
sets on which basing decision-making process, the use of
Geostatistics, spatial simulation and, more generally,
geocomputation methods allows the possibility of basing the
decision-making process on predicted future scenarios. It is very
strange that a discipline such as planning which programs the
territory for the future years in great part of cases is not based
on simulation models. Sectoral analyses, often based on surveys,
are not enough to highlight dynamics of an area. Better knowing
urban and environmental changes occurred in the past, it is
possible to provide better simulations to predict possible
tendencies. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the
main methods and techniques adopted in the field of environmental
geocomputation in order to produce a more sustainable development.
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