Towards a general theory of landscape systems: the integration of the geoecological and bioecological approaches

• Authors: Neven Tandarić

Abstracts

EN

Ever since its beginnings, landscape ecology has been developing in two different directions: the bioecological and the geoecological. While the bioecological approach is focused on the relationship between organisms and their abiotic environment, the geoecological approach is based on the relationship between human society and its, primarily abiotic, environment. Therefore, the geoecological approach can be applied in planning human use of the environment in a long term sustainable manner, while the bioecological approach could represent the basis for the planning of conservational and environmental usage. The merging of these two approaches will result in a comprehensive and more holistic landscape ecology, which will thus gain the potential for coordinating interdisciplinary landscape research and a more prominent role in contributing to spatial planning. The merge will also enhance attempts to create a general theory of landscape systems.

Keywords

EN

Bioecology; geoecology; holism; landscape ecology; general theory of landscape systems

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-34

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Neven Tandarić

• Croatian Geographical Society, Zagreb

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2014-0028

Biblioteka Nauki

1036024