Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes
Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes

Author: Dennis Edler

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-31

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 3658309563

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The volume deals with the effects of digitization on spatial and especially landscape construction processes and their visualization. A focus lies on the generation mechanisms of 'landscapes' with digital tools of cartography and geomatics, including possibilities to model and visualize non-visual stimuli, but also spatial-temporal changes of physical space. Another focus is on how virtual spaces have already become part of the social and individual construction of landscape. Potentials of combining modern media of spatial visualization and (constructivist) landscape research are discussed.

Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes
Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes

Author: Dennis Edler

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9783658309572

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The volume deals with the effects of digitization on spatial and especially landscape construction processes and their visualization. A focus lies on the generation mechanisms of 'landscapes' with digital tools of cartography and geomatics, including possibilities to model and visualize non-visual stimuli, but also spatial-temporal changes of physical space. Another focus is on how virtual spaces have already become part of the social and individual construction of landscape. Potentials of combining modern media of spatial visualization and (constructivist) landscape research are discussed. The Editors Dr. Dennis Edler studied geography and English / American studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) and at the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland; M.Sc. in Geography, majoring in Geomatics, at the RUB; since 2015 Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Geography at the RUB - with teaching and research focus on cartography and geographic information science. Dr. Corinna Jenal studied political science, German studies and philosophy at the University of Trier; Certificate in Sustainability Sciences at Saarland University; since 2016 research assistant in the Department of Geosciences at the Chair of Urban and Regional Development at the University of Tübingen. Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne studied geography, sociology, modern history and geology at the universities of Saarland and Hagen; since 2016 Professor for Urban and Regional Development at Tübingen University.

The Social Construction of Landscapes in Games
The Social Construction of Landscapes in Games

Author: Dennis Edler

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-25

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 3658354038

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The book is dedicated to a compilation of diverse and creative landscapes which occur in games. Being part of a game setting, these landscapes trigger social construction processes in specific ways. A selection of twenty-four research articles addresses the social constructions of landscapes represented in analogue, digital and hybrid game formats as well as their theoretical framing and future perspectives.

Multisensory Landscapes
Multisensory Landscapes

Author: Lara Koegst

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-21

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 3658404140

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This book provides a broad view on multisensory landscapes from multiple perspectives. It includes theoretical perspectives as well as case studies. Different theoretical perspectives on landscape emerging from research in the last decades also require a differentiated approach to landscape phenomena, going beyond the visual. For example, a social constructivist approach to the social world foregrounds the processes of negotiating social ‚realities‘. This is not limited to visual aspects, and is not based on a clear physical measurability with an accompanying (purely quantitative) recording. A phenomenological approach, for example, places the synesthetic experience of landscape at the core of interest. This approach to the topic of multisensory via ‚landscape‘ is obvious for several reasons. Firstly, landscape is created (from a constructivist perspective) through the synthesis of sensory impressions on the basis of social patterns of interpretation and evaluation. Secondly, communication about ‚landscape‘ is also accessible to people who do not have any ‚expertlike special knowledge‘ in this regard. Thirdly, landscape as a changing concept is not only a concept of landscape but also of landscape itself. Fourthly, landscape as a changeable concept is particularly suitable for conceptually framing the highly fleeting non-visual stimuli.

Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis
Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis

Author: Fivos Papadimitriou

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 3658355964

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This is the first book on spatial entropy in the scientific literature. It links spatial entropy with landscape analysis, landscape diversity and geo-information. It gives all the essential tools that a researcher needs in order to study the spatial entropy of physical as well as artificial landscapes (created with artificial life, swarm intelligence etc). This book explores the fascinating world of the interplay between spatial entropy, spatial information, self-organization and emergence and gives geographers and landscape scientists several alternative mathematical methods to study them, i.e. Shannon's formula, measures from non-extensive thermodynamics, from directional statistics and network theory. An essential book for researchers in landscape analysis and geo-informatics.

Liberty and Landscape
Liberty and Landscape

Author: Olaf Kühne

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-27

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3030843262

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This book ​explores the importance of freedom and liberalism in the context of socialities, individualities and materialities. The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism. Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality. In contrast, this book refers to a liberalism that maximizes life chances in the context of dealing with spaces. A connection between freedom and space, based on liberal ideas, provides a much needed theoretical intervention in the fields of social and spatial sciences.

Landscape Research II
Landscape Research II

Author: Albeniz Tuğçe EZME GÜRLEK

Publisher: Livre de Lyon

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 2382362898

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Land Loss in Louisiana
Land Loss in Louisiana

Author: Olaf Kühne

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 3658398892

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This book is oriented on testing and developing the neopragmatic approach of horizontal geographies, in which we follow approaches of natural sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies. Regional focus is thereby put on a rapidly changing elemental space and its social representations, characterized by unstable and not well-defined hybridities: coastal Louisiana. This region is highly dynamic: the Mississippi River in particular, with its extensive sediments, has shifted the coastal fringe of present-day Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico. This land gain is contrasted by natural processes, but also by processes resultant of human intervention which cause marine encroachment. A complex interplay of different aspects is directly and indirectly leading to coastal land loss which makes the question of how to describe emerging hybrid spaces virulent and highlights the limits of a positivist understanding of boundaries that is also physically geographical. In the neopragmatic tradition, positivist research findings will be framed in social constructivist terms and supplemented by phenomenological approaches to Louisiana's coastal space, thus suggesting the need for and potentials of horizontal geographic integration of different theoretical and methodological approaches as well as researcher perspectives and data bases.