Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology
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. These range from Mediterranean
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Landscape Series Volume 7
Series Editors: Henri Décamps, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France Bärbel Tress, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Gunther Tress, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Aims & Scope: Springer’s innovative Landscape Series is committed to publishing high-quality manuscripts that approach the concept of landscape from a broad range of perspectives. Encouraging contributions on theory development, as well as more applied studies, the series attracts outstanding research from the natural and social sciences, and from the humanities and the arts. It also provides a leading forum for publications from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams. Drawing on, and synthesising, this integrative approach the Springer Landscape Series aims to add new and innovative insights into the multidimensional nature of landscapes. Landscapes provide homes and livelihoods to diverse peoples; they house historic – and prehistoric – artefacts; and they comprise complex physical, chemical and biological systems. They are also shaped and governed by human societies who base their existence on the use of the natural resources; people enjoy the aesthetic qualities and recreational facilities of landscapes, and people design new landscapes. As interested in identifying best practice as it is in progressing landscape theory, the Landscape Series particularly welcomes problem-solving approaches and contributions to landscape management and planning. The ultimate goal is to facilitate both the application of landscape research to practice, and the feedback from practice into research.
Transdisciplinary Challenges in Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology - An Anthology with Forewords by E. Laszlo and M. Antrop and Epilogue by E. Allen
by ZEV NAVEH Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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ISBN-10 1-4020-4420-8 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4420-5 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-4422-4 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4422-9 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Cover photograph by Barbel Tress and Gunther Tress
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I dedicate this book to my dear wife Ziona, whose love and devotion, patience and encouragement have been the strongest pillars of my life and work for 55 years.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements Foreword by the Series Editors Preface by Marc Antrop Foreword by Ervin Laszlo
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Introduction – A Revie
