Landscape complexity

Alessia D’Agata is visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and doctoral candidate at the Department of Methods and Models for Territory, Economy and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, supported by a prestigious fellowship. She holds a master’s in building engineering and architecture and a master’s in GIScience for the integrated management of land and natural resources. Her main research interests include urban planning and policy, agricultural and environmental sustainability, official statistics, and normative approaches to sustainable development. She published articles in top-field scientific journals dealing with land-use change and forest dynamics.Ioannis Konaxis, PhD, is assistant professor of sustainable eco-tourism and nature conservation at the Business School of the public University of Piraeus, Greece. He teaches several classes of tourism business and economics, ecological conservation of protected areas, landscape and sustainable development. He published theoretical and applied research in sustainable tourism management in prestigious international journals and book series.Luca Salvati, PhD, is a senior researcher and professor of economic statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research interests include regional and urban economics, housing policy, spatial planning, sustainable development, and indication theory. He has published more than 700 scientific articles in international journals and technical books on economic and statistical issues.

• Chapter 1. Socio-ecological assessment of landscape systems: Toward an integrated perspective Chapter 2. Environmental degradation in complex landscapes: from theory to practice Chapter 3. Aesthetic value, biodiversity, and ecosystem services: optimal resources’ management and the ‘holistic’ role of landscape Chapter 4. Investigating complex landscape systems: inter-disciplinary paradigms in-between science and policy Chapter 5. Envisioning landscape structures with a non-parametric, multidimensional analysis of official statistics Chapter 6. ‘Burnt landscapes’: improving wildfire management in sensitive hotspots Chapter 7. The role of local landmarks in environmental education Chapter 8. Unraveling the inherent complexity in spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization: Theoretical and empirical contributions from global to local observation scales