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Landscape Ecology

Landscape Ecology. Brief illustration. Landscape Ecology: History. Milan Ruzicka 1975 IALE Czechoslovakia Landscape Ecology has been energized by key contributions from landscape architects, foresters, planners, geographer s, artists , environmentalists ,

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Landscape Ecology

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  1. Landscape Ecology Brief illustration

  2. Landscape Ecology: History Milan Ruzicka 1975 IALE Czechoslovakia Landscape Ecology has been energized by key contributions from landscape architects, • foresters, • planners, • geographers, • artists, • environmentalists, • philosophers… Inclusive rather than Exclusive

  3. Landscape ecology: what is it? Landscape ecology is the study of spatial variation in landscapes at a variety of scales. It includes the biophysical and societal causes and consequences of landscape heterogeneity. Above all, it is broadly interdisciplinary. The conceptual and theoretical core of landscape ecology links natural sciences with related human disciplines. On the official website of IALE, 2011 http://www.landscape-ecology.org/

  4. „Geography“ period • Where it is? • What this is? • Look on the landscape at a time in great scale • Carl Troll, 1936, using air/born photo of landscape • LANDEP, Ruzicka, 1980, tools for landscape planing

  5. „THE“ period Zev Naveh, Isaak Zoneveld 1975 .....1980, 1990 geography, humanity explicity ecumenical • „Do not draw boundaries around the field too soon. Welcome to use the insight of all relaled fields that chaose to build liknages“

  6. Integration, THE, intedisciplinarity... • Bridge between science and humanities (Zev Naveh)

  7. Spatial period Forman R.T.T. and Godron, M. 1986. Landscape Ecology. • Mosaic patterns, process and change • Patch – corridor – matrix model • LE offers methodologically opportunities for reserch and theory • LE spatially integrating people and nature • Balance between land-use and human culture

  8. „Out of human system“ period J.I. Nassauer, R. G. H. Bunce, 1990 • Spatial details • Models

  9. Landscape sociology period? Advanced illustration

  10. Landscape ecology Tools for better landscape planning Balance between land-use and human culture Filling societal demands Societal demands ….carrying capacity Landscape as narrative system Landscape as valuable system itself Shift towards landscape (and) sociology?

  11. …landscape (and) sociology? Spatial problems of landscape – no human phenomenon Human as the other ecological factor – external effect Human as demands system, aim, strategy – planning Human as a system itself, culture, perception, values – very rare in landscape ecology

  12. Integration, THE, intedisciplinarity...Proclamations and facts • Bridge between science and humanities (Zev Naveh)

  13. Our Research: Metodology Contentanalyses 1999-2008 leading LE journalsLandscapeEcology: • Landscape Ecology • Landscapeand Urban Planning • Ekológia (Bratislava). articles, proceeding papers, review articles LE 708 LUP 930 Ekológia 890 Total 2528 no editorials, introductions, prefaces, perspectives, comments, replies yes

  14. Metodology Wereviewed 2528 abstractsofscientificarticles in LE and LUP journals. Thisnumbermeansallarticlesfromthedecadeavailablethrough Web of Science (LE) and Science Direct (LUP). Articlesweredividedinto 3 groups/categoriesaccording to thepositionofhumansystem (Social, Natural & Technical management). Allabstractswereread, not just checkedaccording to keywords.In Socialgroupallfullversionofarticleswerereviewed.

  15. Categories • Social • humansystemisanobjectofresearch • NT management • forhuman, buthumansystem is not researchobject • Natural • humansystem is not anobjectofreserach

  16. Results

  17. Results

  18. Results

  19. Ekológia

  20. Results (%) LE Ekológia LUP

  21. Discussion and conclusion • While some other studies and reviews are focused on more criterias, i.e. Wiens (1992), Hobbs (1997) and Andersen (2008), we focused mainly on social system in landscapeas primary research object,which requires connection withsocial sciences. From this point of view we can note that LUP has evidently better proportional concern on social aspects of landscape than LE, even higher thanAntrop’s study shows (2001). Landscape Ecology, the house journal of IALE, doesn’t meet its proclamated role to be the bridge between nature and culture, between science and humanities. Analysis of our total sample of abstracts and articles showsAndersen’s (2008) conclusion about articles focusing on sociology in LE like overemphasized, maybe due torandom sampling of 50 cases and classification of papers belonging to Social system following her very broad definition as „some aspect of sociology“. • Results show that the real cooperation with social sciences(Golley, 1996), integrating humans into landscape ecology(Wu and Hobbs, 2002)and concept of Total Human Ecosystem(Naveh, 2000) are more proclamations and wishes than a real way of thinking among the group of landscape ecologists presenting their papers in the elite house journal of IALE. It looks like reductionism towards landscape science bearsfruit. • Isn´t it the right time for return to landscape ecology?

  22. Conclusion I patterns patterns process changes patterns process patterns – process - changes scale disturbances disturbances

  23. Conclusion II Have humanities something valuable to offer to natural sciences? • Isn’t landscape too cultural construct? • Reduction of landscape to too scientific term without any cultural context.

  24. Ecological reality Social construction Technology Technology Human Human Nature Nature

  25. Next presentation: Landscape as nature - culture continuum • Sociological perspectives or Final essay concerns the possible future development of Landscape Sociology or Landscape Studies in general

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