GIS Based Socio-Ecological Landscape Analysis

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GIS-based socio-ecological analysis of landscape context for natural resources in relations to present and prospective patterns of land use. FOR 565 GIS Based Socio-Ecological Landscape Analysis (3)This course seeks synthesis to bridge a gap between the contemporary spatially-oriented biophysical analysis of landscape ecology and use of geospatial technologies for analysis of past, present, and prospective human influences operative at landscape scale - both of which use geographic information systems as analytical platforms. Interest is reciprocal - human influences on landscape, and landscape conditioning of human economic development. Instruction takes place in a GIS laboratory facility, and evidence of learning arises from ability to access, manipulate, and display spatial information.