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- Comprehensive overview of landscape research, its history and the disciplines involved
- Focus upon the holistic nature of the landscape and its power as an integrating concept, bridging natural and human sciences
- Different perspectives from human and natural sciences on the study of landscape are discussed
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 23)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost.Â
This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectiveson the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Marc Antrop, Veerle Van Eetvelde
About the authors
Marc Antrop is emeritus professor at the Department of Geography, research unit Landscape Research, University of Ghent (Belgium). He is a geographer and his research focuses on a holistic approach of the landscape, integrating a variety of perspectives, combining landscape ecology, historical geography, landscape perception and landscape visualisation and design.Â
Veerle Van Eetvelde is associate professor in the Department of Geography research unit Landscape Research, Ghent University (Belgium). She is geographer and spatial planner and her research range from landscape ecology, landscape preference, historical geography, landscape and heritage management and planning. She is active in the European chapter of the Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE-Europe), UNISCAPE and European projects related with landscape and cultural heritage.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape Perspectives
Book Subtitle: The Holistic Nature of Landscape
Authors: Marc Antrop, Veerle Van Eetvelde
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1183-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1181-2Published: 09 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1504-9Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1183-6Published: 19 December 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 436
Number of Illustrations: 228 b/w illustrations
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Human Geography