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Making sense of new cultural economies, it is argued, needs consistent attention to the resonances of individual lives.

Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands.Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner.

A decade in the making, this handsomely illustrated book offers a detailed examination of key topics in oak woodland policy, ecology and management in both Spain and California, presenting new research results and reviewing the existing literature.

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.

Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science. This title reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of biology, ecology, geography, forestry, agronomy, landscape architecture and planning.

Recent research on complexity and artificial life provides many new insights about patterns and processes in landscapes and ecosystems. Successful management of the world's ecosystems needs to combine models of ecosystem complexity with biodiversity, environmental, geographic and socioeconomic information.

Reforestation efforts have proliferated everywhere. This edited text offers research that explores reforestation across the globe. It covers multiple perspectives, including social, economic and environmental, and it accounts for a wide variety of scales.

Human ecology is an uncertain terrain for anthropologists, geographers, and ecologists and rarely is expanded to include the social and economic realms. Recently, evolutionary ecology has shown great interest in the spatial processes well described by the emerging discipline of landscape ecology.

This book examines broad and local-scale patterns of demographic change in rural landscapes, identi es some of the drivers of these changes using Australian case studies or comparisons between Australian and international contexts, and outlines the implications of changes for society and the environment.

This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004.

This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004.

This analysis of the relationship between socio-economic trends and natural resource amenities focuses on the inter-mountain West of the USA, but its strong empiricism makes it a valuable resource for rural development, sociology and demography researchers.

This book illustrates the range of factors - economic, political and cultural - that have determined Cuba's physical geography and explores the conservation measures that have been instituted in response to new methods in agriculture and land management.