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Scope and Concepts of Landscape Ecology as an Emerging Science

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Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective

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Landscape ecology is an emerging science, with a complex character and heterogeneous content, but with a clearly scientific philosophical (epistemological) background. Before we describe the subject, it is worth explaining why land ecology or landscape ecology is a science, rather than just a “state of mind” or a mix of social activities and attitudes (I. Zonneveld, 1982; Theorie Werkgroep, 1986).

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  1. Department of Land Resource Surveys and Rural Development, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), 350 Boulevard 1945, P.O. Box 6, 7511 AL, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Isaak S. Zonneveld (Professor of Vegetation Surveys) (Professor of Vegetation Surveys)

  2. V.P.O. Department, Agricultural University Wageningen, 6708 PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Isaak S. Zonneveld (Professor of Vegetation Surveys) (Professor of Vegetation Surveys)

  3. Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Richard T. T. Forman (PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology) (PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology)

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Zonneveld, I.S. (1990). Scope and Concepts of Landscape Ecology as an Emerging Science. In: Zonneveld, I.S., Forman, R.T.T. (eds) Changing Landscapes: An Ecological Perspective. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3304-6_1

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