The subject matter of the book encompasses interrelated topics of geography, landscape ecology and geoinformatics that are considered in current landscape modelling. The process of modelling is seen as a form of social representation of diverse landscape phenomena with a specific goal to design and assess future scenarios of a landscape development, while not loosing long-term perspectives of its past histories constituted by its physical (ecological) as well as socio-cultural attributes. Drawing upon theories and methodologies of geography, landscape ecology and geoinformatics, and considering human action as an inseparable part of a landscape evolution, the book introduces the concept of a living landscape and presents specific ideas concerning its optimization. The particular issues of the book reflect the need of an optimization of sustainable landscape development, while considering long-term regional continuity as a major condition which enables to maintain the diversity and mutifunctionality of landscapes at regional and macro-regional scales. Based on an advanced terminology and methods, the book provides specific results especially for researchers and decision makers. The methodical approaches include e.g. environmental analyses, sociological inquiries (landscape perception), heuristic methods (landscape histories) and sophisticated statistical modelling and geoinformatic tools.