Mapping Wilderness: Concepts, Techniques and Applications

Contents.-List of Contributors.-Preface.-Acknowledgments.-Dedication.-1. Introduction.-2. The wilderness continuum concept and its application in Australia:  Lessons for modern conservation.-3. Connectivity, networks, cores and corridors.-4. The Use of Spatial Technology in USDA Forest Service Wilderness Recreation Site Surveys.-5. Wild Vistas : Progress in Computational Approaches to ‘Viewshed’ Analysis.-6. Mapping Human Impact using Crowdsourcing.-7. Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility.-8. Addressing Weak Legal Protection of Wilderness: Deliberate Choices and Drawing Lines on the Map.-9. Unraveling the Coil of the Wild: Geospatial Technology and Wilderness.-10. Wilderness areas in Romania, a case study on the South Western  Carpathians.-11. Purism scale approach for wilderness mapping in Iceland.-12. Is there something wild in Austria?-13. Conclusions.-Author Index.-Subject Index

Steve Carver
Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds.
Steffen Fritz
Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.

This volume gives a comprehensive overview of wilderness mapping, and in doingso covers the conceptual and philosophical foundations, techniques andmethodological approaches, and applications at a variety of spatial scales.
The Editorshave brought together a range of contributors who are both experts in theirfield and cutting-edge thinkers in the wilderness and spatial mapping domain.  Spatial information technology and mappingscience is a rapidly expanding and a developing field and so it is expected tobe able to add to thisvolume in the future.
This bookprovides a record of the "state of the art" and will enable thereader to follow this lead and map his/her own wilderness.

commissioned chapters aim to cover the role of large intact natural areas in modern conservation (systems, people, communities, resilience, ecosystem services, large scale processes, connectivity, etc.) Chapters organisedinto concepts, techniques and applications Provides anoverview of GIS and related technologies in the mapping and modelling ofwilderness and wild land environments across a range of spatial scales