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The last decades has seen the emergence of landscape/land use change as one of the
key driving forces in global changes, especially climate change, environmental change, and
ecological economic change. This change, from landscape ecological perspective, has a
tendency of altering landscape mosaic pattern which may well lead to ecosystem function
change over time, and could be seen at global, regional and local scales altogether. By
using multiscale approach, at regional scale, in addition to landscape change dynamic,
almost of important impacts of climate change and sea level rise were completely analyzed
throughout Vietnam coastal zone. At local scale, land use change, landscape dynamic, the
correlation between spatial pattern and ecosystem function was particularly clarified over a
selected case study area of Tien Lang district, a specific coastal area nearby Gulf of
Tonkin, North of Vietnam.
There were four main studying results obtained, including environmental impact
assessment of sea level rise on Vietnamese coastal zone, reconstructing landscape changes
since 1989 by using satellite remote sensing data, landscape change modelling and
proposing scenarios of landscape ecological planning (LANDEP) for the case study area.
A final report was designed with six chapters (in English), into which involved a key
collection of 10 thematic maps by digital format and 3 papers submitted in international
conferences/world congress. The results of this research, theoretically, pointed out the
major problems of clarifying landscape pattern in the past, understanding trends of
landscape change in the future, and analyzing dynamic of landscape change along
transects. Practically, these not only helped detect such spatially explicit landscape
patterns, but improved the ability of planners to integrate ecological and environmental
considerations in territorial planning. |
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