Download or read book Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security written by Irene Petrosillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines environmental security from the perspective of landscape sciences, identifying the forces that threaten environmental security at all levels. It stems from the last five years of the Pilot Study Project on Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Readers explore concepts of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives.