Bücher der Reihe Landscape Series

This book maps points of common understanding and cooperation in the interpretation of landscapes. The book compares how different cultures interpret landscapes, examines how cultural values are assessed, explores new tools for assessment, traces the discussion about landscape authenticity, and finally draws perspectives for further research.

Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands.Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner.

This book illustrates the range of factors - economic, political and cultural - that have determined Cuba's physical geography and explores the conservation measures that have been instituted in response to new methods in agriculture and land management.

This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004.

This book examines broad and local-scale patterns of demographic change in rural landscapes, identi es some of the drivers of these changes using Australian case studies or comparisons between Australian and international contexts, and outlines the implications of changes for society and the environment.

Reforestation efforts have proliferated everywhere. This edited text offers research that explores reforestation across the globe. It covers multiple perspectives, including social, economic and environmental, and it accounts for a wide variety of scales.

Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine empirical observations with known theories.