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Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches
the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal changes of the
ecological landscapes, has now been contributing to the human life
and the shifts of the socio-economic paradigm. Global warming has
been influencing the universal life patterns of the mankind which
have been maintained in the past several hundreds of years. And it
has been having the influences on the international social problems
and economic problems. Although the diverse plans for adapting to
the climate changes have been the topics of the conservations among
the ecologists internationally, it is the reality that the speed of
the changes of the environment has been quicker than the time it
takes to complete the solutions. In order to maintain the
sustainable earth and the sustainable society, the role of the
landscape ecology has been coming to the fore. Especially, the
theories and the methodologies of the landscape ecology have been
applied to the multidisciplinary researches by going beyond the
research category of ecology, including the maximization of the
efficiencies of the land spaces, the management of the ecological
space (habitats) in which the biological diversity can be
maintained, the utilization of the resources that are absolutely
needed by the human beings (Here, it is compressed to water,
energy, and food), etc. and until reaching the human society. It is
considered that, to that extent, the utilizations and the
applications of the landscape ecology are very much needed for the
diagnoses and the evaluations of the global environmental problems
which have been proceeded with rapidly in the modernity. This book
is not comprised of any general remarks that explain the theories
and the methods of the landscape ecology. Already, based on the
basic theories of the landscape ecology, the writers have conducted
the investigations on the farm villages, the cities, and the
coastal ecosystems. And, through the space analyses and
interpretations, the structure and functions of the landscapes were
analyzed. Of course, in this book, too, the diverse ecosystems and
the landscape ecological methodologies regarding the land use have
been presented. However, the core of this book focuses more on what
role the landscape ecology must play for the materialization of a
sustainable society in the future. At the farm villages, the
sustainable agriculture will be presented, and, at the cities, the
discussions on the green networks and the energies will be
proceeded with. Also, regarding the coasts and the seas, a thesis
on the safety of the life zones of the residents adjacent to the
sea and on the conservation of the island ecosystems will be
presented. The sustainable society is a system that is formed by
having the sustainable development as a basis. It is considered to
be one aspect within a kind of a sustainable process with regard to
which the natural world and the human world coexist and are in a
symbiotic relationship harmoniously. In order to maintain the
biodiversity, the reasonable adjustments of the human activities,
like the use of the resources, are absolutely needed. Without the
biological resources, the cultural diversity of the human beings,
too, cannot exist. Consequentially, recently and internationally,
there are a lot of the case examples that express the biocultural
diversity by linking the biological diversity with the cultural
diversity. In this book, the role of the landscape ecology as an
academic link which can connect the two possible, if possible, is
highly expected. It is, indeed, the biocultural landscape. It can
be said that this concept, also, is the interconnection of the
multidisciplinary spaces that must be dealt with in the modern
landscape ecology. Through this book, it is intended to present a
new directionality which can contribute to the sustainable society
at the same time as the organization of the theories and the
methods of the landscape ecology.
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