introduction this study is dealt with the environmental planning from a bio-cybernetic and hierarchical systems viewpoint within the context of landscape ecology. this viewpoint requires not only knowledge of the science of ecology but also ecological wisdom in order to recognize the place of humankind in nature. the conceptual and practical approach which is provided will help landscape planne...

Non-participation in landscape planning presents a formidable challenge to sustainable development. We hypothesize that even when people hold egative attitudes toward unplanned development, natural property rights values (favorable evaluations of property as an inviolable and pre-political ight) prevent them from acting on their concerns. We chose an intermountain west community as a case study...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

Relevant management decisions are directly subjected to our ability to characterize landscape pattern: the amount and arrangement of spatial variability. The primary objectives of our project were (1) to develop new exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) methods to evaluate and quantify landscape spatial heterogeneity across spatial scales, and (2) to assess the sensitivity of widely used lan...

Landscape ecological risk assessment can effectively identify key elements for landscape sustainability, which directly improves human wellbeing. However, previous research has tended to apply risk probability, measured by overlaying landscape metrics to evaluate risk, generally lacking a quantitative assessment of loss and uncertainty of risk. This study, taking Liaoyuan City as a case area, e...

In the framework of Landscape Ecology, we propose an integrated approach that combines an ecological graph model for the analysis of the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological flows and a mathematical model, based on a system of two nonlinear differential equations that studies landscape stability and bifurcation phenomena. A case study of the district of Cremona (Italy) is perform...