Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes; Author: Steinitz, Carl; Joint Author: Arias, Hector; Hardback; Book

Author: Steinitz, Carl; Joint Author: Arias, Hector
Hardback; Book; Colour Images, Photographs, Maps, Figures, Index
200 pages
Published: November 2002
Island Press
ISBN: 1559633352

Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area of various land-use planning and management decisions. The results of such projections, and the approach itself, are known as alternative futures.Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures project -- an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The book gives a comprehensive overview of how the study was conducted along with descriptions and analysis of the alterSteinitz has developed a GIS-based simulation modelling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences to that area of various land-use planning. This text presents a case study of one alternative futures project.