Nassauer, J.I., 1995, Culture and changing landscape structure, in: Landscape ecology, 10, 4
- Author : Nassauer, J.I.
- Year : 1995
- Journal/Series : Landscape ecology
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 4
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 10
- Pages : 299-237
- Abstract in English : The fundamental promise for examining culture in landscape ecology is that culture structures landscapes. A corollary premise is that landscapes inculcate culture. Culture changes landscapes and culture is embodied by landscapes. Both aspects of this dynamic are encompassed by landscape ecology but neither has been examined sufficiently to produce cultural principles. Four principles are discussed. 1) Human landscape perception, cognition, and values affect the landscape and are affected by the landscape. 2) Cultural conventions powerfully influence landscape pattern in both inhabited and apparently natural landscapes. 3) Cultural concepts of nature are different from scientific concept of ecological function. 4). the appearance of landscape communicates cultural values. It is concluded that among landscape ecologists a consensus is growing about the need to develop cultural principles for landscape ecology. Building more specific cultural principles in landscape ecology requires thoughtful development of methods that reside in the traditions of no single discipline but grow from the purpose of the work.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: landscape ecology, landscape philosophy, landscape theory, culture, landscape perception.