Table of Contents

– Environmental Security and Landscape Ecology.- Contributions of Landscape Sciences to the Development of Environmental Security.- Landscape Ecology and Environmental Security: basic concepts and regional applications for the Medit.- Landscape management for environmental security: some perspectives of adaptive management approaches.- The policy framework GMES as a guideline for the integration of environmental security research and landscape sciences.- – Landscape Science Methodologies to Assess Environmental Security.- Investigating landscape patterns in protected areas using aster images.- Quantifying and Qualifying Urban Green by Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Social Science Method.- Allometric scaling as an indicator of ecosystem state: a new approach.- – Landscape Indicators and Landscape Change Detection.- Deriving the spatial traits of organized land structures.- Landscape monitoring as a tool in improving environmental security.- Landscapes of the natural park “Vepssky Forest”.- Multi-temporal coastal zone landscape change detection using remote sensing imagery and in situ data.- Landscape character as a framework for the assessment of environmental change.- – Integrated Studies of Catchments and Basins.- An ecohydrological approach for the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services.- Environmental quality and landscape-hazard assessment in the Yantra River Basin, Bulgaria.- The influence of catchment land cover on phosphorus balance for large freshwater systems.- The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the pacific northwest (USA).- Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data.- – Assessments of Human-Environmental Systems in Landscapes.-Demographic impacts on landscape change – a conceptual view of global demographic trends.- Land use impacts of demographic change – lessons from Eastern German urban regions.- The consequences of demographic change in Rhineland-Palatinate: scenarios of landscape consumption for settlement and transportation areas.- Landscape, demographic developments, biodiversity, and sustainable land use strategy: a case study on karaburun peninsula izmir, turkey.- Indication of the State of the Environment with GIS and People: a Case Study and planning tool for mulfingen, a municipality in South Germany.- Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes.- Fostering ecosystem services’ security by both objective and subjective analyses: the case of a natural protected area in Southern Italy.- Environmental assessing of reindeer herding in changing landscapes on different scales.- – Environmental Applications of Landscape Ecological Methods – Impact Assessments.- The contribution of quality assessment of eroded agricultural soil on hilly-undulating landscapes to sustainable community development.- Nuclear safety and its impact on the level of environmental security in Ukraine.- Environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental restoration: the case study of Cop?a-Mic? area, romania.- Landscape approaches to assess environmental security: summary, conclusions, and recommendations.