Wageningen UR frontis series 12. From landscape research to landscape planning : aspects of integration, education and application
Provides guidelines for those pursuing landscape projects based on integrative concepts - interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity - whether they are members of an integrative research team or individuals working on a problem that demands integration.
Print Book, Undefined, 2005
Kluwer, Dordrecht [u.a.], 2005
X, 434 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
9781402039782, 1402039786
1288592009
Trends in landscape research and landscape planning: implications for PhD students.- Developing integrative theory and concepts.- Defining concepts and process of knowledge production in integrative research.- From holistic landscape synthesis to transdisciplinary landscape management.- Ecosystem networks: a spatial concept for integrative research and planning of landscapes.- Integrating physical and human dynamics in landscape trajectories: exemplified at the Aulnages watershed (Québec, Canada).- Challenges of interdisciplinarity for forest management and landscape perception research.- Landscape's ocular-centrism: and beyond?.- Developing integrative tools and methods.- Bio-regional pattern and spatial narratives for integrative landscape research and design.- Theories, methods and strategies for sustainable landscape planning.- Water quality modelling for decision-making: the drinking-water watersheds of Sydney, Australia.- Integrating landscape and water resources planning with focus on sustainability.- Changing conceptualization of landscape in English landscape assessment methods.- European nature conservation policy: challenges for local implementation in Germany.- Training and education for integration.- PhD students and integrative research.- Educating the children of the mode-2 revolution.- Effective communication in integrative projects.- Ten steps to success in integrative research projects.- How to publish a peer-reviewed research paper from integrative landscape research.- Applying integrative concepts.- Linking preference for environments with their restorative quality.- Nature meets aesthetics on cultural grounds: a multidisciplinary study of grave mounds in Norway.- Sustaining urban ecosystem services with local stewards participation in Stockholm(Sweden).- Integrating nature conservation and landscape management in farming systems in the Friesian Woodland.- Building landscape memory through combined sources: commons afforestation in Portugal.- Integrating landscape ecology in environmental impact assessment using GIS and ecological modelling.- Applying special heterogeneity indices in changing landscapes in the Czech Republic.- Integration of ecological knowledge at a landscape level for conservation policies in agricultural areas.- Setting up an integrative research approach for sustaining wild rice (Zizania palustris) in the Upper Great Lakes Region of North America.- Established and recent policy arrangements for river management in The Netherlands: an analysis of discourses.- From river to ridge: local governance and the implementation of improved water management.- Conclusion.- Considerations for future education in integrative landscape research.