Ecosystem and Territorial Resilience
A Geoprospective Approach

A comprehensive guide to identifying and addressing potential climate change impacts using the geoprospective approach

Emmanuel Garbolino (Edited by), Christine Voiron-Canicio (Edited by)

9780128182154

Paperback, published 21 September 2020

400 pages, 110 illustrations (55 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.81 kg

Ecosystem and Territorial Resilience: A Geoprospective Approach provides a full review of the geoprospective approach and how it can be used in planning for and implementing environmental and territorial resilience measures. The geoprospective approach is a way to predict and assess for future risks, and is a comprehensive method for identifying and addressing potential change impacts. In addition to the main concepts and methods of this approach, the book presents applications and case studies for different spatio-temporal scales and problems related to the degradation of socio-ecosystems, as well as applying the geoprospective approach to environmental and urban planning.The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective, tying in concepts and techniques from geography, including spatial analysis methods, modelling, and GIS, to address issues of ecological impacts of climate change, urban risk and resilience, land use changes, coastal impacts, and sustainable development and potential of adaptability. This book is a unique and integral resource for policy makers, environmental and territorial managers, scientists, engineers, consultants, and graduate students interested in anticipating future change in socio-ecosystems.

1. The origins of geoprospective
2. Anticipating the impacts of future changes on ecosystems: main issues of geoprospective
3. Knowledge challenges of the geoprospective approach applied to territorial resilience
4. Methods and tools in geoprospective
5. Geoprospective approach for biodiversity conservation taking into account human activities and global warming
6. Assessing the territorial adoption potential of electric mobility: geoprospective and scenarios
7. The touristic model of Valais facing climate change: geoprospective simulations of more environmentally integrated development models
8. Geoprospective assessment of the wood energy supply chain sustainability in a context of global warming and land use change within 2050 in Mediterranean area
9. Simulating together multi-scale and multi-sectorial adaptations to global change and their impacts: A generic serious game and its implementation in coastal areas in France and South Africa
10. Geoprospective as a support to marine spatial planning: some French experience-based assumptions and findings
11. Simulating the interactions of environmental and socio-economic dynamics at the scale of an eco-district: Urban modeling of Gerland (Lyon, France)
12. Geodesign for Collaborative Spatial Planning: three case studies at different scales
13. How do public policies respond to spatialized environmental issues? Feedback and perspectives

Subject Areas: Climate change [RNPG]