Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology - An Anthology

Capitalizing on forty years of intensive ecological studies, this anthology presents a collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical Mediterranean, global environmental and landscape issues. Each chapter features a comprehensive study of ecological and landscape issues, synthesized in the introduction, and woven with autobiographical experiences. The concluding chapter calls for a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental scientific fields and particularly in landscape and restoration ecology, to cope with the complex, closely interwoven ecological, socio-economical, political and cultural crises facing human society during the present crucial transition from the industrial to the post-industrial, global information age. Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer book on Landscape Theory and Applications by the author and Lieberman (1994), this is a unique transdisciplinary attempt based on advanced systems complexity theories, which link the natural and human sciences.

• | Author: Zev Naveh
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Mar 12, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 426 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1402044208
• | ISBN-13: 9781402044205