Applied ecology ; Ecotone ; Hungary ; Land use ; Outer conurbation area ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Urban fringe
Besides the investigations into the basic elements of the ecological spatial networks : the ecological matrix areas, corridors of barriers and also the biocores and buffer zones, the analysis of the edge-zones, the so-called ecotons
, is an increasingly popular topic of landscape ecology. The ecological role of the edge zones is proportional to the contrast between the ecological properties of the areas they separate. The ecological contrast is the sharpest possible round the town outskirts. - (ZK)
Applied ecology ; Concept ; Ecological crisis ; Ecology ; Environment ; Epistemology ; Global environment ; History of sciences ; Human ecology ; Ideology ; Philosophy of sciences ; Value system
Fire in the cerrado (savannas) of Brazil : an ecological review
Biodiversity ; Biogeography ; Brazil ; Ecology ; Environmental management ; Fire ; Savanna
Fire is a major determinant of cerrado (savanna) vegetation in Brazil, and is used as a management tool during the dry season. This article reviews past and present fire ecology studies in the cerrado, (abiotic, biotic, social studies and management
The A. reports on the progress in describing and explaining variation of biodiversity in tropical rain forests. He bases this review on a search of the 1997 editions of Ecology Abstracts, Ecological Abstracts and Forestry Abstracts.
Adaptation ; Arizona ; Cultural landscape ; Desert ; Human ecology ; Irrigation ; Man-environment relations ; Perception ; United States of America ; Water resources ; Water use
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world : a review
Capitalist states ; Conflict ; Developing countries ; Economic policy ; Environment ; Global change ; Human ecology ; Land use ; Man-environment relations ; Perception ; Power ; Resource management
Political ecology examines the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world. The role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicized environment is a central theme. Particular
Indigenous knowledge of landscape-ecological zones among traditional herbalists : a case study in Keiyo District, Kenya
The aim of this study is the insight of traditional herbalists in the landscape-ecological factors which control the growth of the plants they use for healing their patients. The extent of this insight determines their capacity to adapt
to environmental changes such as deforestation and soil degradation. This paper deals with the landscape-ecological perception of herbalists who live in an area with sharp landscape contrasts and drastic changes in landuse : the Keiyo Escarpment in the Rift which
Ecological and regional protests in Uttarakhand, northern India
Caste ; Ecological movement ; Ethnic community ; Forest ; India ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; Separatism ; Socio-economic system ; UttarPradesh
Seeds of civilization : bronze age rural economy and ecology in the Southern Levant
supported long-term agriculture in the Levant reflect a legacy of discontinuous changes in rural ecology in response to the waxing and waning of urbanized society.
This paper describes coastal resilience as a measure of the extent to which a coast is able to respond to external pressures without losing actual or potential functions. Coastal resilience has morphological, ecological and socio-economic components
Agroecosystem ; Applied ecology ; Arable land ; Ecosystem ; Great Hungarian Plain ; Hungary ; Rural area ; Zoning
in the region was set up. Then the mapped agroecological data were digitised and a new layer was generated by superimposing the different types of data. After the introduction of the ecological demands of the main crops in Bodrogköz, agroecological zones were
Les AA. expliquent les principes de l'écologie du paysage. Le landscape ecological planning and design est guidé par la théorie écologique du paysage, et son objectif principal est de créer un système durable. Etude de cas : le bassin du Zhuolu
This paper sketches out a method for a quantitative description of landscape structure, which can be used for biologically optimal landscape management. The approach suggested is based on a landscape ecological framework and emphasis is laid
Discourse ; Environment ; Human ecology ; Mountain ; Myth ; Research ; Social sciences ; Society-environment relationship
) and will facilate a critical debate over the meaning of biophysical processes. He supports the adoption of cultural theory, new ecology, and critical realism in environmental research which should incorporate environmental perception, long-term environmental
Biodiversity ; Biogeography ; Bird ; Ecological niche ; Ecosystem ; Human impact ; Island ; Pacific Region ; Population dynamics ; Taxonomy ; Theory
, ecological characteristics, and role of immigration and extinction factors as regulators of the islands'species. The endemic nature of the pristine avifauna is interpreted as an indication of high stability over thousands of years. The A. wishes to assess