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Springer Transdisciplinary Challenges In Landscape Ecology And Restoration Ecology - An Anthology 2007 Edition by Zev Naveh Epilogue by E. Allen
Capitalizing on forty years of intensive ecological studies this anthology presents a collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical Mediterranean global environmental and landscape issues. Each chapter features a comprehensive study of ecological and landscape issues synthesized in the introduction and woven with autobiographical experiences. The concluding chapter calls for a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental scientific fields and particularly in landscape and restoration ecology to cope with the complex closely interwoven ecological socio-economical political and cultural crises facing human society during the present crucial transition from the industrial to the post-industrial global information age.Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer book on Landscape Theory and Applications by the author and Lieberman (1994) this is a unique transdisciplinary attempt based on advanced systems complexity theories which link the natural and human sciences. Table of contents : Foreword. Introduction. Part A: Mediterranean issues. 1. Mediterranean ecosystems and vegetation types in California and Israel; Z. Naveh.- 2. Structural and floristic diversity of shrublands and woodlands in northern Israel and other Mediterranean areas; Z. Naveh R.H. Whittaker.- 3. Fire in the Mediterranean - a landscape ecological perspective; Z. Naveh.- 4. From biodiversity to ecodiversity: a landscape-ecology approach to conservation and restoration; Z. Naveh.- 5. Conservation restoration and research priorities for Mediterranean uplands threatened by global climate change; Z. Naveh.- 6. From biodiversity to ecodiversity - holistic conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of Mediterranean landscapes; Z. Naveh.- 7. The role of fire in the evolution of the Mediterranean cultural landscape in the Pleistocene and Early Holocene with special reference to Mt. Carmel; Z. Naveh.- Part B. Global issues. 8. The development of Tanzania Masailand. A sociological and ecological challenge; Z. Naveh.- 9. The role of landscape ecology in development; Z. Naveh.- 10. Culture and landscape conservation: A landscape ecological perspective; Z. Naveh.- 11. Ecological and cultural landscape restoration and the cultural evolution towards a post-industrial symbiosis between human society and nature; Z. Naveh.- 12. Ten major premises for a holistic conception of multifunctional landscapes; Z. Naveh.- 13. Multifunctional self-organizing biosphere landscapes and the future of our Total Human Ecosystem; Z. Naveh.- Part C. Recapitulation. 14. The transformation of landscape ecology and restoration ecology into transdisciplinary sciences - recapitulation and revision; Z. Naveh.-