Environmental Modelling of Coastal Cities: Urban Landscapes as Complex, Vulnerable and Dynamically Developing Structures

The study area is focused on the coastal city of Taipei. The environmental changes of the city were detected by geospatial analysis of the satellite images. The areas occupied by different landscape types were calculated and analyzed. It was detected that various districts were developing with different rate and intensity due to the complex factors of both human and ecological origin. The results showed urban development, decline of green areas, increase of urban spaces since 1990. Keywords: city development, Taipei, urban ecology, modelingP. Lemenkova. "Environmental Modelling of Coastal Cities: Urban Landscapes as Complex, Vulnerable and Dynamically Developing Structures". Russian and English. In: Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection. Theory and Practice of the Economic Regulation. 13rd International Conference of the Russian Society for Ecological Economics. RSEE-2015 (Kazan Federal University, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, July 7–9, 2015). Ed. by A. Shevtchuk. Kazan, Russia (Tatarstan): RSEE Press, 2015, pp. 636–642. isbn: 978- 5-94691-766-7. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7211558