PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor, Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, DGES, Carleton University, Announces the Latest Publication in the Elsevier Modern Cartography Series:
“Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development” – 1st edition
November 16, 2021
Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor is very pleased to announce the publication of the latest book in the Elsevier Modern Cartography Series, entitled “Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development” (9780128238950).
Professor Taylor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Killam Prize Winner 2014, Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor, International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies and Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, also serves as the Elsevier Modern Cartography Series Editor.
Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development: Geospatial Technology Based Approach, Volume Ten covers spatial mapping, modeling and risk assessment in land hazards issues and sustainable management. Each section in the book explores state-of-art techniques using commercial, open source and statistical software for mapping and modeling, along with case studies that illustrate modern image processing techniques and computational algorithms. A special focus is given on recent trends in data mining techniques. This book will be of particular interest to students, researchers and professionals in the fields of earth science, applied geography, and those in the environmental sciences.
Key Features
- Demonstrates a geoinformatics approach to data mining techniques, data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, visualization, and management strategies in different aspects of land use, hazards and reclamation
- Covers land contamination problems, including effects on agriculture, forestry, and coastal and wetland areas
- Suggests specific techniques of remediation
- Explores state-of-art techniques based on commercial, open source, and statistical software for mapping and modeling using modern image processing techniques and computational algorithm
Professor Taylor congratulates the Editors, Gouri Bhunia, Uday Chatterjee, Anil Kashyap, Pravat Shit and team, as well as the Elsevier colleagues, on a first-class piece of work.
Professor Taylor’s Foreward for the book is included as a quick introduction to this very impressive and timely publication:
Foreword: This book on Land Reclamation is a welcomed and valuable addition to the Modern Cartography series. Access to land is a major issue in every country. Land is a scarce resource, and as pressures grow due to climate change and other factors, the issue of land reclamation increases in importance. This book gives a comprehensive outline of the strategies and technologies being used to reclaim land in a variety of different situations. The chapters describe the geospatial technologies being used and this comprehensive coverage brings together in one place an important collection of information. Land is, of course, of economic value but is much more than an economic commodity. In many societies, land ownership is of high cultural and social value. In many parts of Africa, for example, there are very few graveyards as people are buried in the plot of land which their families have owned for generations. The African followers of the missionary David Livingstone made extraordinary efforts to return his heart to the coast of East Africa so that he could be buried in his homeland. The book is primarily technological in nature, but the editors and chapter authors are aware of the social, economic, and ecological aspects of the complex land reclamation issues they describe. In the opening chapter, the editors comment that “The greatest obstacle of our day is inequality, in addition to climate change.” This is a comment with which I agree but is a topic for several books in its own right. Land is a fixed and finite resource, and as population increases and human action continues to degrade land, the importance of land reclamation as a mitigation strategy grows. This is further complicated by the loss of land to rising sea levels. A consideration of this important topic is a major contribution of this important book.
Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Killam Prize Winner 2014
Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor of International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies
Series Editor, Elsevier Modern Cartography Series
Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,
Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa ON K1S 5B6 Canada
FraserTaylor@Cunet.Carleton.Ca Web site: http://gcrc.carleton.ca