By Zev Naveh, E. Allen, E. Laszlo, M. Antrop
Capitalizing on 40 years of in depth ecological experiences, this anthology offers a suite of commonly dispersed significant guides on theoretical and useful Mediterranean, international environmental and panorama concerns. every one bankruptcy encompasses a finished research of ecological and panorama matters, synthesized within the creation, and woven with autobiographical reviews. The concluding bankruptcy demands a transdisciplinary shift in all environmental clinical fields and especially in panorama and recovery ecology, to deal with the complicated, heavily interwoven ecological, socio-economical, political and cultural crises dealing with human society through the current an important transition from the economic to the post-industrial, international info age.
Updating and broadening the scope of the groundbreaking Springer ebook on panorama thought and purposes via the writer and Lieberman (1994), this can be a special transdisciplinary test in accordance with complicated structures complexity theories, which hyperlink the average and human sciences.
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In this, not only the natural regenerative capacity of cultivated land is restored, but also the basic cyclic flows of energy, water and nutrients of natural biosphere landscapes, driven by the conversion of solar energy. Designed by the late, visionary landscape architect and planner John Lyle, it was realized at the California Polytechnical State University, Pomona, in an interdisciplinary teaching, research and demonstration project in regenerative technologies, open for graduate students of all faculties.
Bar-Yosef (1998, 159) described the Mediterranean Levant “an oak-dominated parkland and woodland that provided the highest biomass of food exploitable by humans”, without distinguishing between these, and more xeric sites, which could not support such dense tree cover. They supported, therefore, much more open and grassy plant communities, like the Tabor oak woodland and the semi-arid shrubgrasslands on the ecotones of the Mediterranean zone in Israel. But even in the very wide-spread parklands on lower elevations and slightly warmer and drier conditions, such as the coastal foothills Ceratonia-Pistacia lentiscus communities in Israel, their scattered tree cover has a dense shrub-understory.
I convinced him that for our purpose, comprehensive and innovative solutions of integrated ecological and socio-economical development and conservation (which now we would call “sustainable development”) are required, based on a holistic and transdisciplinary THE concept. My research in Masailand convinced me that in such a closed, very short and fragile food chain of the Nilo-Hamitic pastoral Masai tribe the productivity of the dry savanna grazing land cannot be separated from the productivity of the Masai people and their livestock.