Placing nature : culture and landscape ecology /
"Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are rai...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. Urgent realities. Human impacts on ecosystems and landscapes / Eville Gorham ; Farming and the landscape / Jane Smiley ; Inherit the grid / Curt Meine
- Part two. The culture of nature. Cultural sustainability: aligning aesthetics and ecology / Joan Iverson Nassauer ; The beauty that requires health / Marcia Muelder Eaton
- Part three. Landscape ecology in place. Urban conservation: social, green, and affordable / Judith A. Martin and Sam Bass Warner Jr. ; Politics at the scale of nature / Deborah Karasov ; Creating pseudo-rural landscapes in the mountain West / William H. Romme.