After the 2008 crisis, smart sustainable development of port areas/cities should be developed on the basis of specific principles: the synergy principle (between different actors/systems, in particular the socio-cultural and economic system), the creativity principle and the circularization principle. The Historic Urban landscape (HUL) approach becomes the guarantee that the transition toward t...

1 Palaeoecology and Landscape Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA, 3 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama, 4 Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, US...

Assessing the model performance of an integrated hydrological and biogeochemical model for discharge and nitrate load predictions T. Pohlert, L. Breuer, J. A. Huisman, and H.-G. Frede Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, 35392 Gießen, Germany Received: 12 July 2006 – Accepted: 28 August 2006 – Published: 12 September 2...

This paper examines the basic features of the music curriculum in the primary schools in order to improve the music education within the reality of the worldwide educational society. Music curriculum aims to: enhance the knowledge, to improve and expand pupils’ cognitive and artistic skills, reinforce the collaborative learning, and evaluate the different levels of understanding. Hence, the mus...

Among the most obvious but generally overlooked differences between printed documents and video presentations is the orientation of the display medium. Paper-based documents throughout the world historically have been and continue to be predominantly portrait-oriented — taller than they are wide — whereas television screens and computer monitors are predominantly landscape-oriented — wider than...

Peculiarities of the spatial behaviour of the dislocation lines resulting from scattering of coherent radiation from random and fractal rough surfaces are studied. The technique of optical correlation is proposed for diagnostics of phase singularities in a complex speckle field by comparing the correlation lengths of amplitude and intensity of the local fields. It is shown that the dislocation ...

The composition of a landscape is a fundamental indicator in land-cover pattern assessments. The objective of this paper was to evaluate a landscape composition indicator called 'landscape mosaic' as a framework for interpreting land-cover dynamics over a 9-year period in a 360,000 km2 study area in the southern United States. The indicator classified a land parcel into one of 19 possible lands...

Efficient survey methodologies that provide comprehensive assessment of reef condition are fundamental to coral reef monitoring. Current state-of-the-art techniques in coral reef assessment rely on highly trained scientific divers to measure indices of reef health (e.g., substrate cover, species richness, coral size, coral mortality). First-generation video mosaics were an innovative survey tec...

and biological condition of soil (Oades, 1993; Stevenson, 1994). To maintain SOC in agricultural fields, we need The spatial or temporal variability of soil has been extensively to consider its local and global evolution. With respect considered in the literature using either experimental or modeling approaches. However, only a few studies integrate both spatial and to the latter, global warmin...