Ecology, Cognition and Landscape Linking Natural and Social Systems /

• Main Author: Farina, Almo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Landscape architecture.; Ecology.; Applied ecology.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Applied Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.; Environmental Management.; Landscape Architecture.; Sustainable Development.

While the importance of incorporating human factors into understanding ecological process is widely recognized, to date there have been few solutions offered as to how this can be done. In his new book, Ecology, Cognition and Landscape, Almo Farina makes an innovative move to do just that. And by re...

Table of Contents:

• The State of Art of Landscape Ecology: 20 Years of Paradigms and Methods
• Toward the Essence of the Landscape: An Epistemological Perspective
• Toward a Theory of the Mosaic
• Properties of Ecological Mosaics
• Ontogenesis and Changes of the Landscape: A Probabilistic View
• The Ecotones
• Measuring and Evaluating the Ecological Mosaics: General Assumption
• The Cognitive Landscape
• The Landscape as a Human Agency.