Overview
- Explores biocultural diversity within the context of landscape ecology
- Brings together key methodologies for studying links between biodiversity and cultural diversity
- Presents case studies in applying biocultural understanding
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is devoted to the cultural and biological dimensions and values of landscapes, linking the concepts of biodiversity, landscape and culture and presenting an essential approach for landscape analysis, interpretation and sustainable dynamics.
Early chapters explore the concepts and values of biocultural landscapes, before addressing the methodology to identify the relationship between biological and cultural diversity. The volume continuous with a series of case studies and with an exploration of the key role of biocultural diversity in contemporary landscape ecology.
Readers will learn the importance of landscapes for different fields of natural and human sciences and are confronted to the trans-disciplinary nature of the landscape concept itself. A hierarchical approach to landscapes, in which they are composed of interacting (eco)systems, is shown to be essential in recognizing their emergent properties.
In this work, the biocultural values of landscapes are explored through their diversity in geographical scopes, methodological approaches and conceptual assumptions. Authors from Asia, Europe and North-America present diverse research experiences and views on biocultural landscapes, their pattern, conservation and management.
Landscape ecologists will find this work particularly appealing, as well as anyone with an interest in sustainable landscape development, nature conservation or cultural heritage management.
This volume is the outcome of a symposium on “Biodiversity in Cultural Landscapes”, organized in the framework of the 8th IALE World Congress, held in Beijing in 2011.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biocultural Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Diversity, Functions and Values
Editors: Sun-Kee Hong, Jan Bogaert, Qingwen Min
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8941-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8940-0Published: 18 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0639-9Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8941-7Published: 31 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 218
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Nature Conservation, Biodiversity, Human Geography, Conservation Biology/Ecology