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Culture and changing landscape structure
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Culture changes landscapes and culture is embodied by landscapes as discussed by the authors, but neither has been examined sufficiently to produce cultural theory within the field of landscape ecology, and the following broad principles are proposed:Abstract:
Culture changes landscapes and culture is embodied by landscapes. Both aspects of this dynamic are encompassed by landscape ecology, but neither has been examined sufficiently to produce cultural theory within the field. This paper describes four broad cultural principles for landscape ecology, under which more precise principles might be organized. A central underlying premise is that culture and landscape interact in a feedback loop in which culture structures landscapes and landscapes inculcate culture. The following broad principles are proposed:
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Human landscape perception, cognition, and values directly affect the landscape and are affected by the landscape.
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Cultural conventions powerfully influence landscape pattern in both inhabited and apparently natural landscapes.
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Cultural concepts of nature are different from scientific concepts of ecological function.
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The appearance of landscapes communicates cultural values.read more
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Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda.
Terry C. Daniel,Andreas Muhar,Arne Arnberger,Olivier Aznar,James Boyd,Kai M. A. Chan,Robert Costanza,Thomas Elmqvist,Courtney G. Flint,Paul H. Gobster,Adrienne Grêt-Regamey,Rebecca Lave,Susanne Muhar,Marianne Penker,Robert G. Ribe,Thomas Schauppenlehner,Thomas Sikor,Ihor Soloviy,Marja Spierenburg,Karolina Taczanowska,Jordan Tam,Andreas von der Dunk +21 more
TL;DR: A common representation is offered that frames cultural services, along with all ES, by the relative contribution of relevant ecological structures and functions and by applicable social evaluation approaches, which provides a foundation for merging ecological and social science epistemologies to define and integrate cultural services better within the broader ES framework.
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The shared landscape: what does aesthetics have to do with ecology?
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between aesthetics and ecology and the possibility of an "ecological aesthetic" that affects landscape planning, design, and management has been discussed, including the importance of aesthetics in understanding and affecting landscape change and how aesthetic and ecology may have either complementary or contradictory implications for a landscape.
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Driving forces of landscape change — current and new directions
TL;DR: The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscapes change.
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A Framework for Conceptualizing Human Effects on Landscapes and Its Relevance to Management and Research Models
Sue McIntyre,Richard J. Hobbs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a synthesizing scheme that places intact, variegated, fragmented, and relictual landscape states on a continuum, depending on the degree of habitat destruction.
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Relationships between visual landscape preferences and map-based indicators of landscape structure
TL;DR: In this article, the map-derived indicators of landscape structure from the Norwegian monitoring program for agricultural landscapes are correlated with visual landscape preferences and spatial metrics, including number of land types, number of patches and land type diversity.
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Image of the city
Abstract: What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
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