Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Concepts and Approaches. Coupling Landscape Patterns and Ecological Processes / Bojie Fu, Changhong Su, Yihe Lü -- Strengthening Landscape Ecology's Contribution to a Sustainable Environment / Clive A. McAlpine [and others] -- Urban Landscape Ecology: Past, Present, and Future / Jianguo Wu [and others] -- Biocultural Diversity for Sustainable Ecological, Cultural and Sacred Landscapes: The Biocultural Landscape Approach / Gloria Pungetti -- Using Ecosystem Services in Community-Based Landscape Planning: Science is Not Ready to Deliver / Paul Opdam -- Effects of Global Household Proliferation on Ecosystem Services / Jianguo Liu -- Part II. Landscape Modeling. Bringing Climate Change Science to the Landscape Level: Canadian Experience in Using Landscape Visualisation Within Participatory Processes for Community Planning / Stephen R.J. Sheppard [and others] -- Watershed Scale Physically Based Water Flow, Sediment and Nutrient Dynamic Modeling System / Billy E. Johnson, Zhonglong Zhang, Charles W. Downer -- Simulation of River Flow for Downstream Water Allocation in the Heihe River Watershed, Northwest China / Chansheng He [and others] -- Evaluating the Transport and Fate of Nutrients in Large Scale River Basins Using an Integrated Modeling System / Zhonglong Zhang, May Wu -- Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis for Landscape Pattern Characterization / Xiaojun Yang, Bojie Fu, Liding Chen -- Part III. Landscape Planning and Management. Discursive Relationships Between Landscape Science, Policy and Management Practice: Concepts, Issues and Examples / Simon Swaffield, Jorgen Primdahl, Mark Hoversten -- Planning Multifunctional Measures for Efficient Landscape Management: Quantifying and Comparing the Added Value of Integrated and Segregated Management Concepts / Carolin Galler, Christina von Haaren, Christian Albert -- The Structure and Dynamics of Agricultural Landscapes as Drivers of Biodiversity / Francoise Burel [and others] -- Forest Influences on Climate and Water Resources at the Landscape to Regional Scale / Ge Sun, Yongqiang Liu -- Are We Destroying Our Insurance Policy? The Effects of Alien Invasion and Subsequent Restoration / Alanna J. Rebelo [and others].

Climate change and the pressures of escalating human demands on the environment have had increasing impacts on landscapes across the world. In this book, world-class scholars discuss current and pressing issues regarding the landscape, landscape ecology, social and economic development, and adaptive management. Topics include the interaction between landscapes and ecological processes, landscape modeling, the application of landscape ecology in understanding cultural landscapes, biodiversity, climate change, landscape services, landscape planning, and adaptive management to provide a comprehensive view that allows readers to form their own opinions. Professor Bojie Fu is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chair of scientific committee at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Professor K. Bruce Jones is the Executive Director for Earth and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.