Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology - An Anthology E-Book

Zev Naveh

• Herausgeber: Springer Netherland
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Landscape Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2007

Beschreibung

Capitalizing on forty years of intensive ecological studies, this anthology presents a collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical Mediterranean, global environmental and landscape issues. Each chapter features a comprehensive study of ecological and landscape issues, synthesized in the introduction, and woven with autobiographical experiences. The concluding chapter calls for a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental scientific fields and particularly in landscape and restoration ecology, to cope with the complex, closely interwoven ecological, socio-economical, political and cultural crises facing human society during the present crucial transition from the industrial to the post-industrial, global information age.

Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer book on Landscape Theory and Applications by the author and Lieberman (1994), this is a unique transdisciplinary attempt based on advanced systems complexity theories, which link the natural and human sciences.