Human geography and the new ecology: the prospect and promise of integration
Biodiversity ; Concept ; Ecology ; Environment ; Human geography ; Man-environment relations ; Research
The new ecology underscores the role of nonequilibrium conditions in biophysical environments, a reorientation of biological ecology based in part of biogeography. Its implications for the analysis of these environments are described. Certain key
Ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and human societies
Ecology ; Environment ; Epistemology ; Historical geography ; History of ideas ; History of sciences ; Society-environment relationship
Inspired by the Green Movement and invoking many of the analytical concepts of ecological science, environmental historians have offered criticisms of modern society and its relation with nature. Revisionists in ecological science have repudiated
Modeling ecologically sustainable economic development in a region: a case study in the Netherlands
Concept ; Ecology ; Economic activity ; Indicator ; Model ; Regional development ; Resource management ; Sustainable development
The notion of sustainable development is discussed by linking socio-economic and ecological elements. The relationship of the regional concept with both the global concept and sustainable use of resources is discussed. The use of models
in a regional context is investigated. All models integrate economy and ecology. Only dynamic models are considered. Scenario and simulation models are most appropriate. A case study is presented for the Peel region, the Netherlands.
Different types of impaired areas on the one hand and ecological potential areas on the other are determined in an inventory of the ecological situation. The currently available ecologically oriented concepts are then presented. The legally required
Aerial photography ; Argentina ; Dendrology ; Earthquake ; Ecology ; Mass movement ; Mountain ; Peat ; Snow ; Tierra del Fuego
The aim of this paper is to present some of the observations obtained during a field survey carried out in early 1987 as part of a research project which deals with the relationships between forest ecology and geomorphology among other geo-ecologic
Factorial ecology ; Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Residential location ; Urban ecology ; Urban structure
ecological analyses are performed for both years. Then the spatial patterns of the attributes which have remarkable loading on each factor are examined. - (KA)
by man in various directions and at/for different periods of time. Further aims were to evaluate the social, economic and ecological consequences of the changes which have occurred. - (DG)
Applied ecology ; Aral Region ; Arid area ; Ecological catastrophe ; Ecosystem ; Environmental conservation ; Environmental degradation ; Former USSR ; Irrigation ; Regional policy ; Sea level ; Soviet Central Asia
Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now undergoing an ecological crisis of huge proportions because of the diminution of discharge from its two tributaries, caused primarily by expanding irrigation in wide desertic areas
Damage valuation ; Human ecology ; Impact ; Perception ; Town ; War
Several questions in the geography of armed violence are addressed here: the impact of acts of war upon civilian populations, the extreme experience of ordinary citizens in their home places, and a human ecology of disaster that emerges when its
monsoon rainforest and savanna. The AA. document these changes to provide an ecological perspective on these two common forms of disturbance, particularly with respect to the control of monsoon rainforest distribution in the coastal regions of the Northern