Contributors |
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Abbreviations |
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Introduction |
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1 Understanding Landscapes through Knowledge Management Frameworks, Spatial Models, Decision Support Tools and Visualisation |
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1.2 Part 1: Natural Resource Knowledge Management Frameworks and Tools |
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1.3 Part 2: Integrating the Ecology of Landscapes into Landscape Analysis and Visualisation |
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1.4 Part 3: Socioeconomic Dimensions to Landscapes |
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1.5 Part 4: Land Use Change and Scenario Modelling |
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1.6 Part 5: Landscape Visualisation |
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Part 1: Natural Resource Knowledge Management Frameworks and Tools |
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2 Reading between the Lines: Knowledge for Natural Resource Management |
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2.3 Timelag between Question and Answer |
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2.4 Organising the Questions |
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2.5 Integrating Disciplines |
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3 Improving the Use of Science in Evidence-based Policy: Some Victorian Experiences in Natural Resource Management |
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3.1.1 Historical Perspective |
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3.1.2 The Policy Process: Towards Evidence-based Policy |
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3.1.3 Use of Science as Evidence in Policy |
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3.2 Some Victorian Experiences in Natural Resource Management |
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3.2.1 Survey of Policy Analysts |
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3.2.3 Improving the Utility of Project Outputs |
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3.2.4 Observation of How Policy Decisions Are Made |
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3.3 Case Studies of Successful SciencePolicy Influence |
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3.3.1 Sawlogs for Salinity |
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3.3.2 Salinity Investment Framework 3 |
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3.3.4 Greenhouse in Agriculture |
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3.4.1 Toward Better Use of Science in Evidence-based Policy |
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4 The Catchment Analysis Tool: Demonstrating the Benefits of Interconnected Biophysical Models |
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4.2 Catchment Analysis Tool: Background and Description |
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4.2.3 The CAT Model Components |
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4.2.4 Model Calibration and Conceptualisation |
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4.3.1 Hypothetical Case Study |
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4.3.2 Results and analysis |
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4.4 Validation and Model Improvement |
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5 The Application of a Simple Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell to Natural Resource Management Decision Making |
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5.2 Multi-criteria Analysis |
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5.2.1 Spatial Applications |
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5.2.2 The Decision-making Process |
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5.4.1 Prioritising Revegetation Investment |
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5.4.2 Assessing the Sustainability of Extensive Grazing |
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5.7 Future Research Directions |
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6 Platform for Environmental Modelling Support: a Grid Cell Data Infrastructure for Modellers |
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6.4 Progress and Discussions |
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6.5 The PEMS Demonstrator Project |
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6.5.1 National Seasonal Crop Monitoring and Forecasting |
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6.5.2 Develop and Demonstrate a Market-based Approach to Environmental Policy on Private Land |
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6.5.3 Wildfire Planning: Consequence of Loss Modelling |
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6.5.4 Land Use Data, Modelling and Reporting |
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Part 2: Integrating the Ecology of Landscapes into Landscape Analysis and Visualisation |
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7 Looking at Landscapes for Biodiversity: Whose View Will Do? |
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7.2 To be Human is to Err |
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7.3 What's Good for the Goose? |
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7.6.1 Mapping and Modelling Terrain, Hydrological, Pedological and Geological Features and Climate |
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7.6.2 Vegetation Mapping Using Remotely Sensed Data, Including Vegetation Condition and Temporal Variability |
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7.6.3 Mapping and Modelling Movement |
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7.6.4 Integrating Multiple Perspectives |
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8 Native Vegetation Condition: Site to Regional Assessments |
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8.2 Measuring Vegetation Condition at Sites |
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8.3 Measuring Vegetation Condition across Regions |
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8.4 Case Study: Vegetation Condition in the Murray Catchment, New South Wales |
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8.4.2 Site Data Collection |
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8.4.3 Modelling from the Site to the Region |
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8.5 Results and Discussion for the Murray Catchment Case Study |
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8.7 Future Research Directions |
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9 Towards Adaptive Management of Native Vegetation in Regional Landscapes |
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9.2 What Adaptive Management is and is not |
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9.2.1 Step i: Statement of Objectives, Constraints and Performance Measures |
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9.2.2 Step ii: Specification of Management Options |
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9.2.3 Step iii: System Modelling and Model Credibility |
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9.2.4 Step iv: Allocation, implementation and Monitoring Closing the Loop |
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9.3 Managing and Monitoring Native Vegetation |
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9.3.1 An Example of a Formal Approach to Adaptive Management of Vegetation Condition |
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10 Revegetation and the Significance of Timelags in Provision of Habitat Resources for Birds |
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10.4 Caveats and Extensions |
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11 The Application of Genetic Markers to Landscape Management |
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11.1.1 The Need for Information on How Biota Occupies and Moves through Landscapes |
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11.1.2 A Spectrum of 'Genetics' in Landscape Management and Planning |
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11.1.3 Molecular Population Biology Supplies Information Essential for Landscape Planning and Management |
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11.2.1 Three Levels of Analysis Assess Three Levels in Time and Space |
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11.2.2 Main Molecular Tools in Landscape Molecular Population Biology |
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11.3.1 Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on Cunningham's Skinks |
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11.3.2 Dispersal and Gene Flow of Greater Gliders through Forest Fragmented by Pine Plantation |
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11.3.3 Catchments Catch All: Congruent Patterns in Diverse Invertebrate Fauna in Decaying Wood at a Landscape Scale |
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11.6 Future Research Directions |
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12 Scenario Analysis with Performance Indicators: a Case Study for Forest Linkage Restoration |
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12.3.1 Indicator Rule 1: Site Recovery Capacity |
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12.3.2 Indicator Rule 2: Site Biodiversity Value |
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12.3.3 Indicator Rule 3: Landscape Linkage Qualities |
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12.3.4 Indicator Rule 4: Landscape Connectivity |
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12.4 Atherton Tablelands Case Study |
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12.4.1 Restoration scenarios |
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12.4.2 Scenario Evaluation |
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Part 3: Socioeconomic Dimensions to Landscapes |
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13 Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving SocialEcological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions |
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13.2 A Potted History of Catchments for Resource Governance |
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13.3 Defining Regions for Resource Governance |
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13.4 Application of Principles to Spatial Analysis |
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13.4.1 Delineating Civic Regions from a Social Surface |
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13.4.2 Deriving a Hierarchy of Civic Regions |
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13.4.3 Deriving Ecoregions |
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13.4.4 Integrating Ecoregions and Civic Regions through Boundary Optimisation |
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13.4.5 Comparing the Performance of Regions |
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13.5 Conclusion: Past, Present and Future Resource Governance |
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14 Placing People at the Centre of Landscape Assessment |
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14.3.1 PressureStateResponse Model |
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14.3.2 Driving ForcesPressureStateImpactResponse Model |
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14.3.3 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework |
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14.3.4 Indicator Selection |
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14.4 A Landscape Approach for Victoria |
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14.4.1 Definitions of Five Victoria Landscapes |
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14.4.2 The Role of Indicators |
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14.5 Case Study 1: Semi-arid Landscape |
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14.5.2 Employment Indicator |
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14.5.3 Index of Stream Condition Indicator |
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14.5.4 Land Use Diversity Indicator |
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14.5.5 Management Response |
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14.6 Case Study 2: Coastal Landscape |
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14.6.2 Visitors to Parks and Reserves Indicator |
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14.6.3 Ratio of Land Value to Production Value Indicator |
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14.6.4 Land Use Diversity Indicator |
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14.9 Future Research Directions |
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15 The Social Landscapes of Rural Victoria |
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15.2 A Narrative of Rural Transformation in Australia |
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15.2.1 International Agricultural Competition |
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15.2.2 Agricultural Restructuring |
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15.2.3 Amenity Values in the Rural Land Market |
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15.2.4 Indicators Derived from the Narrative |
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15.3 From Indicators to Social Landscapes |
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15.3.1 Factor Analysis Using the Principal Components Method |
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15.3.2 Creating a Geography of Amenity and Intensification |
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15.4 Five Social Landscapes |
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15.4.1 The Production Landscape |
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15.4.2 The Transitional Landscape |
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15.4.3 The Amenity Farming Landscape |
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15.4.4 The High Amenity Landscape |
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15.4.5 The Intensive Agriculture Landscape |
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15.6 Future Research Directions |
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16 A Decision Aiding System for Predicting People's Scenario Preferences |
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16.3 An Extra Step for the SDSS Discipline |
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16.4 Description of the Preference Prediction Software |
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16.4.1 Finding a Larger Set of Criteria |
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16.4.2 Finding Relationships between Criterion Scores and Overall Scenario Merit |
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16.4.3 The Underlying Assumption |
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16.5 An Urban Planning Case Study Application of the Preference Prediction Software |
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16.5.1 Assigning Criteria Scores to the Scenarios |
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16.5.2 Predicting Scenario Ratings for Overall Merit |
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16.5.3 Checking the Personal Characteristics of the Advisors |
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16.5.4 Predicting Scenario Merit Ratings on Behalf of Past Workshops |
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16.5.5 Exploring How Scenario Ratings Were Derived |
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16.5.6 Searching for Reasons behind Each Scenario Merit Rating |
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16.5.7 Predicting All Groups' Preferences Simultaneously |
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16.8 Future Research Directions |
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Part 4: Land Use Change and Scenario Modelling |
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17 Mapping and Modelling Land Use Change: an Application of the SLEUTH Model |
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17.3 Results and Discussion |
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18 Uncertainty in Landscape Models: Sources, Impacts and Decision Making |
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18.2 Models, Variability and Sources of Uncertainty |
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18.2.2 Natural Variability, Temporal Resolution and Spatial Resolution |
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18.2.3 Taxonomic Scale and Data Collection |
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18.2.4 Summary on Models and Sources of Uncertainty |
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18.3 Model Uncertainty and Decision Making |
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19 Assessing Water Quality Impacts of Community Defined Land Use Change Scenarios for the Douglas Shire, Far North Queensland |
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19.1 Context and Case Study Location |
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19.2 Dialogue over Sustainable Future Landscapes and Seascapes |
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19.3 Methodology of an Application of a SocialEcological Framework for Sustainable Landscape Planning |
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19.3.1 Stage I: Community Perceptions and Visions |
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19.3.2 Stage II: Community-driven Landscape Scenarios |
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19.3.3 Stage III: Modelling of Landscape Scenarios and Assessing Water Quality |
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19.4 Results and Discussion |
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19.4.1 Visions for the Douglas Shire Coastal Landscape |
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19.4.2 Spatially Explicit Land Use Change Scenarios |
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19.4.3 Inputs into SedNet for Water Quality Analysis and Model Results |
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20 Analysing Landscape Futures for Dryland Agricultural Areas: a Case Study in the Lower Murray Region of Southern Australia |
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20.2 Futures Thinking and Scenario Analysis |
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20.3 The Lower Murray Landscape Futures study |
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20.3.1 Collaborative and Participatory Approach |
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20.3.2 Defining Targets, Scenarios and Policy Options |
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20.3.3 Landscape Futures Analysis |
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20.5 Risk, Preference and Strategic Policy Adoption |
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20.7 Application in Other Regions and Contexts |
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21 Applying the What If? Planning Support System for Better Understanding Urban Fringe Growth |
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21.2 The What If? Planning Support System |
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21.2.1 Suitability Module |
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21.3 Mitchell Shire Application of What If? |
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21.3.2 Land Suitability Analysis |
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21.3.3 Demographic Projections and Land Use Demand |
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21.3.4 Future Land Use Allocation Scenarios 2031 |
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Part 5: Landscape Visualisation |
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22 Understanding Place and Agreeing Purpose: the Role of Virtual Worlds |
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22.2 Established Options for Understanding Place |
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22.4 Development Methodology |
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22.4.2 Links to Decision Support Systems |
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22.4.3 Virtual Decision Environment |
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23 Geographic Landscape Visualisation in Planning Adaptation to Climate Change in Victoria, Australia |
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23.2 Context of Visualisation and 'Sense of Place' |
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23.3 Climate Change Predictions and Impacts in South-eastern Australia |
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23.3.1 Climate Change and the Need for Ecological Connectivity |
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23.3.2 Biolink Zones in South-eastern Australia |
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23.3.3 Visualisation Tools for Explaining the Context of Biolinks |
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23.3.4 Visualisation of Environmental Change at a Site over Time |
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23.4 Realism behind Visualisation Technology |
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23.5 Realism at the Front End |
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24 Visualising Alternative Futures |
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24.2 The Barwon Heads Peri-urban Development Visualisation Tool |
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24.3 The Central Business District of Melbourne What the City Might Be? Prototype |
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24.3.1 Marvellous Melbourne |
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24.3.2 Melbourne and the Removal of Significant Buildings |
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24.3.4 Initial Impressions |
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24.4 Visualising Proposed Landscapes: Sydney Rd, Brunswick |
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24.5 Usefulness of the Prototypes |
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25 Virtual Globes: the Next GIS? |
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25.3.4 Display and Data Manipulation |
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25.3.6 Openness and Customisation |
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26 A Virtual Knowledge World for Natural Resource Management |
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26.3 NRM Virtual Knowledge World |
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26.4 Bet Bet Virtual Landscape |
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26.5 Victorian Virtual NRM Knowledge Arcade |
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27 Computer Games for Interacting with a Rural Landscape |
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27.4.1 Viewing Simulations |
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27.4.2 Mobile and Computer Games |
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27.5.3 Unreal Tournament 2004 |
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27.6 The Bushfire Rescue Game |
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28 Automated Generation of Enhanced Virtual Environments for Collaborative Decision Making Via a Live Link to GIS |
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28.4 Case Study and Discussion |
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28.5 Conclusion and Outlook |
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29 Land Use Decision Making in a Virtual Environment |
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29.2 Rational Decision Making |
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29.2.1 Values, Attitudes and Behaviours |
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29.3.1 Social: Agent-based Modelling |
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595 | |
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29.3.2 Environmental: Three-dimensional Visualisation |
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595 | |
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29.3.3 Economic: Experimental Economics |
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596 | |
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597 | |
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29.4 Environmental and Economic Efficiency: Results and Discussion |
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600 | |
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601 | |
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602 | |
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29.4.3 Social context (ABM) |
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604 | |
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605 | |
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606 | |
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606 | |
Index |
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609 | |