Nagendra, Harini and Millington, Andrew and Kopeck´a, Monika, eds.
(2018)
Urban land systems: an ecosystems perspective.
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
ISBN 9783038429180
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Abstract
Andrew Millington is a Professor in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University.
His research interests are in remote sensing, land-use dynamics, biogeography and human impacts
on the environment. Most of his work lies in the area described as coupled human-natural
systems in which he examine the influences of human systems on land use and its impacts on
things like vegetation change, landscape fragmentation and biodiversity. In 1978 he joined one
of Africa’s oldest universities (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone) as a lecturer in
the Geography Department. While teaching there he did his doctoral degree at the University of Sussex.
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University. She is an ecologist who
uses satellite remote sensing coupled with field studies of biodiversity, archival research, institutional
analysis, and community interviews to examine the factors shaping the social-ecological sustainability
of forests and cities in the south Asian context. She completed her PhD from the Centre for Ecological
Sciences in the Indian Institute of Science in 1998.
Monika Kopeck ´a, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy
of Sciences and the Head of the Department of Geoinformatics. Her research is focused on land use
and land cover mapping, landscape changes, and landscape indicators. She participated in several
projects related to spatial analysis and assessment of landscape structure and its changes. Currently, her
research activities are oriented to monitoring of urban landscape dynamics and agricultural landscape
abandonment
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