Concept ; Denmark ; Ecology ; Geographic school ; Geography ; Humanecology ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape structure ; Sustainable development
The tradition of geography as humanecology introduced to Danish geography by Sofus Christiansen is taken as a departure for an evaluation of present endeavour to promote geography as landscape ecology. The modest role in humanecology of human
adaptation to landscape structure and dynamics is stressed. The challenge for geography in the development of a transdisciplinary landscape ecology as foundation for the planning and management of landscape ecological aspects of local and regional
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
The paper includes the following chapters : 1. Political ecology : all things to all people ? 2. Issues, narratives and epistemologies. 3. Disjunctures. 4. Cartography of political ecology. 5. Analytical narratives for political ecology. 6. Post
The landscape-ecological methodological approach is due to its holistic approach most suitable for the study of relations between separate landscape-ecological units and their impacts on land-use and human activities. The Upper Gorenjska region
was divided into 5 landscape-ecological types and 19 landscape-ecological units. Landscape-ecological types and landscape-ecological units showed a high inner differentiation of the studied area, which is not clearly detected in the existing territorial units
, such as cadastral districts, councils, etc. The homogeneity of landscape-ecological types and landscape-ecological units enabled a simpler interpretation of the obtained data and, in turn, better results. - (IKR)
Humanecology and biomedical research: a critical review of the International Biological Programme in New Guinea in Subsistence and survival: rural ecology in the Pacific.
Bio-geo-graphy: landscape, dwelling, and the political ecology of human–elephant
Assam ; Biogeography ; Cohabitation ; Crop ; Ecology ; Elephant ; Forest ; India ; Landscape ; Political ecology
Drawing upon postcolonial environmental history, animal ecology, and more-than-human geography, this paper examines how humans and elephants cohabit with and against the grain of cartographic design in Assam. It conceptualises and deploys
a methodology of ‘tracking’ through which archival material, elephant ecology, and voices of the marginalised can be integrated and mapped. It concludes by discussing the implications of this work for fostering new conversations between more-than-human geography
The humanecology of Global Change : unresolved questions 1) in Global Change.
of these early planning efforts through a discussion of the major unresolved questions relating to the humanecology of global change.
Several national and international programs are beginning to plan systematic research strategies for better understanding the interactions : human activity/geosphere-biosphere system. This paper attempts to review and summarize the major conclusions
Collection of 12 crafted essays, each on a different aspect of the movement of plants, animals and disease around the world and their impact on human populations. Two of the essays are: The biological metamorphosis of the Americas
Environmental problems are a challenge for both the geography and ecology to work out a synthesis in landscape ecology and harmonise nature conservation and economic development. After physical geography contemporary human geography is taking part
Tajokologiai modszerek a területi tervezésben. (Landscape ecological methods in regional planning)
Human geography
Landscape ecological planning (LANDEP) is a complex, goal-oriented method which is aimed at a proposal for the optimal use of the landscape. There is an important application for environmental protection, since the ecological damage deriving from
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