Ecology, Cognition and Landscape: Linking Natural and Social Systems

by Almo Farina

It is more and more evident that our living system is completely disturbed by human intrusion. Such intrusion affects the functioning of entire systems in ways we do not yet fully understand. We use paradigms such as the disturbance to cover large and deep gaps in our scienti?c knowledge. Human ecology is an uncertain terrain for anthropologists, geographers, and ecologists and rarely is expanded to include the social and economic realms. The integration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048131375
• ISBN13: 9789048131372
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"