This book asks: What are the most suitable “mapping strategies” for detecting patterns of global dynamics?
It adopts a spatial perspective when trying to understand “Global Dynamics” – and sets out to revolutionise the concept of space as such. Spatial views – on levels of increasing abstraction, reflection and self-organisation – are developed along eight case studies including air emissions, environmental radioactivity, deforestation, energy from biomass, land use change, food supply, water quality and cooperative interdisciplinary learning for global change.
This book’s conceptual innovation consists in performing a transformation from “space & time” into “functional state space & evolutionary time” in order to better recognise the structural patterns of long-term global dynamics.
A transdisciplinary readership in academia – including geography, philosophy, economics, global change and future research – that is interested in enlarging scientific concepts beyond classical borders – would be most welcome!
Author(s): Gilbert Ahamer
Series: Environmental Pollution
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 436
City: Cham
Poiesis Foreword by Anne Buttimer
Map Dynamics in Functional Space-Time
Foreword by Waldo Tobler
Big History – Teasing out Significant Patterns
Foreword by David Christian
Co-evolving spheres – A perspective for 21st Century Global Studies
Foreword by Victor Faessel
Spaces’ Evolutions
Foreword by Gerald Hüther
Steering While Living or Mapping of Mapping of Mapping
Foreword by Alexander N. Chumakov
This Book Explores Reason and Rationality
Geography Steers Beyond Geometry
Let’s Replace General with Crucial
Heroes Create Solutions, Even in an Inconsistent World
Is … Is … Is
Acknowledgements
Preface
Structure
Summary
Part I: Objectives Leading to a Vision
Part II: Mapping in Eight Case Studies
Part III: Lessons Learned While Mapping
Part IV: Conclusions for Global Dynamics
Contents
Part I: Objectives Leading to a Vision: an Introduction
1: Objectives Leading to a Vision
1.1 Methods to Map Dynamic Development
1.2 The Research Question
1.3 Definition of Key Terms
1.4 Guidance to the Reader
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Part II: Mapping in Eight Case Studies
2: Case Study ①: Cadastral Survey of Air Emissions for Salzburg
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3: Case Study ②: Mineralogical and Soil Properties Influence Cs Uptake
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4: Case Study ③: Geo-localising of Air Quality Monitoring Sites
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5: Case Study ④: Geographic Patterns of Historical Global Deforestation
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6: Case Study ⑤: Global Patterns of Energy Demand and Biomass Fuel Supply
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7: Case Study ⑥: The Chain of Agricultural Production and Consumption
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8: Case Study ⑦: Scenarios of Water Demand, Supply and Quality
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9: Case Study ⑧: Social Mapping in the Game “Surfing Global Change”
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Part III: Lessons Learned While Mapping
10: Lesson One: Synopsis of the Eight Mapping Strategies
10.1 Lists of Systemic Characteristic Properties of the Eight Mapping Cases
10.2 Three Basic Dimensions of Characteristics May Describe All Case Studies
10.3 From Causal Relationships to Spatial Patterns and Back Again
10.4 Overlooking the Innovative Steps in Mapping Realities
10.5 What Global Change Can Be in a Meta-Structural View
References
11: Lesson Two: The Geographic Perspective
11.1 A Suggested Definition of Geography
11.2 Main Constituents of Geography as a Science
11.3 Subdivisions Within the Science of Geography
11.4 Concepts of Spaces in Geography
11.5 What Geographers May Map: Geodetic Spaces and Social Spaces
References
12: Lesson Three: A Brief History of Geographic Thought
12.1 Modes of Perceiving in Classical Geographies
12.2 Reflections on Geography: Themes and Spatial Autocorrelation
12.3 Geography and GIS Develop as a Multiparadigmatic Science
12.4 Paradigms in Recent Economic and Developmental Geography
12.5 The Search for Metrics of Space in Twentieth-Century Geography
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13: Lesson Four: Own Deliberations on “What Is Space?”
13.1 Reconciliation of Irreconcilable Paradigms Means Progress
13.2 Distance As a Notion Is Based on Interaction and Communication
13.3 Potential and Enacted Communication
13.4 The Essence of Time: An Option to Learn
13.5 Metrics in Virtual Spaces
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14: Lesson Five: Evolutionary Patterns
14.1 Mapping Dynamic Time-Space Structures of Global Development
14.2 Perceiving Through Several Spaces Simultaneously
14.3 A Practical Method to Map Dynamics in Space-Time
14.4 What May Constitute Evolution of Structures
14.5 Towards Multiperspectivistic Perception: Meta-geography
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Part IV: Conclusions for Global Dynamics
15: Conclusions for Global Dynamics
15.1 Conclusions from the Objectives
15.2 Conclusions from the Eight Case Studies
15.3 Conclusions from the Lessons Learned
15.4 The Essence of This Book
References
Part V: Annexes with Additional Material from Practice
16: Annex to the Introduction: Which Definitions of Geography Are Provided by Institutions
16.1 Approach to This Piece of Geographic Work
16.2 Definitions of Geography by Geographic Societies
16.3 Methodologies in Geography
16.4 Geography’s Perspectives and Epistemologies According to Literature
16.5 Navigating the Alps
References
17: Annex to Case ①: Inventories for Air Emissions: Methodologies and Trends
17.1 Methodology for an Energy and Emission Balance
17.2 Detailed Description of the Calculation Methodology
17.3 Detailed Description of the Results
17.4 Two Methods for Emission Projection
17.5 Possible Application of These Methods in Other Cities
References
18: Annex to Case ②: Geo-Referencing Radioactive Deposition and Transfer
18.1 Relevance of Environmental Radioprotection
18.2 A Study on Geo-Referencing Radioactivity in the Tauern Region of the Alps
18.3 Caesium Contamination of the Underwater Sediments
18.4 Caesium Contamination of the Soil Samples
18.5 Caesium Contamination of the Plants
18.6 Dependence of the Transfer Factors for Caesium
18.7 Control Experiments Regarding Particle Size Distribution
18.8 Suitability for a Geographic Information System GIS
18.9 Detection of Main Geofunctional Dependencies in the Soil-Plant System
18.10 Overview of Spatial Properties
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19: Annex to Case ③: Siting of Air Quality Monitoring Stations
19.1 Structure of the Report on the AQMS in the Slovak Republic
19.2 Air Quality Monitoring Station in Hnúšťa
19.3 Air Quality Monitoring Station in Jelšava
19.4 A Geo-referenceable Example: Steel Works in Košice
19.5 Conclusions and Recommendations for AQMS Siting
References
20: Annex to Case ④: Quantifying, Visualising and Modelling Global Deforestation
20.1 The Global Carbon Cycle
20.2 Disturbance of the Global Carbon Cycle by Deforestation
20.3 Net Carbon Flow to the Atmosphere
20.4 Mapping Global Biomass Density
20.5 Detailed Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the Global Carbon Cycle
References
21: Annex to Case ⑤: Modelling Future Alterations of Global Carbon Flows
21.1 Mathematical Approaches to Global Modelling
21.2 The Model Architecture of a Global Biomass Energy Model
21.3 Functional Patterns of Carbon Flows
21.4 Deviating Global Carbon Flows for Global Energy Needs
21.5 Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Carbon Flows
References
22: Annex to Case ⑥: A Scenario Generator for Global Land-Use Change Scenarios
22.1 Summary of This Chapter
22.2 Aim of the Chapter
22.3 The Method: A Socio-economic Database with an Analytical Tool
22.4 The Conceptual Framework for Productivity in Agriculture
22.5 The Supply Side of Global Agricultural Productivity
22.6 The Demand Side of Global Food Production
22.7 The Economic Factor Input to Agricultural Production
22.8 Structure of Scenarios for the Demand Side: A Chain Formula
22.9 Quantitative Development of the Structural Variables
22.10 Trends for the Structural Variables
22.11 Projection of Trends Until 2050: A Dynamics-As-Usual Scenario
22.12 Modified Scenarios Until 2050
22.13 Generalising Description of the Modelling Strategy
22.14 Conclusions for This Chapter
References
23: Annex to Case ⑦: A Geo-referenceable Scenario Writing Technique
23.1 Summary of This Chapter
23.2 Reason and Motivation for a Baseline Scenario
23.3 Earlier Examples for Scenario Writing Methodologies
23.4 An Original Approach to Long-Term Scenarios Based on Trend Analyses
23.5 Structures for Methodologies Leading to a WFD Baseline Scenario (BLS)
23.6 The DPSIR Conceptual Framework
23.7 Architecture of a Baseline Scenario BLS
23.8 Underlying Conceptual Model for the Dynamic Behaviour of the BLS
23.9 Strategy for Filling Data into the System Architecture
23.10 Formal Description of the BLS Method
23.11 More Detailed Project Documentation
23.12 The Strategic Context for This Entire Piece of Work
23.13 Advantages of This Method for a BLS
References
24: Annex to Case ⑧: Mapping Social Procedures
24.1 Statistics of Communication
24.2 Indivisible Elements of Consideration: Perspectives
24.3 Which Basic Dimensions Exist in Social Processes?
24.4 Implications for Interdisciplinary Learning
24.5 Global Studies
References
25: Annex to Lessons Learned: Spotlights on the History and Future of Geography
25.1 A Sequence of Paradigms in Geography
25.2 Paradigmatic Shifts in Economic and Developmental Theories
25.3 Understanding of Space-Time Patterns in Human Geography
25.4 Abstract Concepts of Space and Time in Geography and in Physics
25.5 Revisiting the Key Concepts of This Book
25.5.1 Self-Referential Systems
25.5.2 Space Means Separation of Possibilities for Communication
25.5.3 A Methodology to Map Spatio-temporal Dynamics
25.5.4 Generalising the Task of Global Development
25.5.5 Granularity in Reality: Evolutionary Creation of Structures
25.5.6 Spatial Metrics Based on Potential or Enacted Communication
25.5.7 Modes of Communication, Reflectivity and Evolution
References
Appendix: Selection of Geographic Literature
A Selection of “Most Suitable” Geographic Literature in the Understanding of the Author
Literature
Index
