By Zev Naveh, E. Allen, E. Laszlo, M. Antrop
Capitalizing on 40 years of in depth ecological stories, this anthology offers a suite of generally dispersed significant courses on theoretical and functional Mediterranean, worldwide environmental and panorama concerns. each one bankruptcy contains a entire examine of ecological and panorama matters, synthesized within the advent, and woven with autobiographical studies. The concluding bankruptcy demands a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental medical fields and especially in panorama and recovery ecology, to deal with the advanced, heavily interwoven ecological, socio-economical, political and cultural crises dealing with human society through the current an important transition from the economic to the post-industrial, worldwide details age.
Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer booklet on panorama idea and purposes by means of the writer and Lieberman (1994), it is a particular transdisciplinary test according to complex platforms complexity theories, which hyperlink the ordinary and human sciences.
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If this were implemented, it could serve as an excellent guide for a world-wide strategy of landscape restoration and a major contribution to such a post-industrial human-nature symbiosis. CHAPTER 5 – CONSERVATION, RESTORATION AND RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR MEDITERRANEAN UPLANDS THREATENED BY GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. In: Moreno J, Oechel WC (eds) Global Change and Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems (Ecological Studies Vol. 117. Springer, New York, pp. 482–508, 1995) This essay was originally presented as a lecture in an international post-graduate course.
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