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Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today's specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.

Landscapes. --- Landscape ecology. --- Landscape protection. --- Écologie du paysage --- Paysage --- Protection --- Écologie du paysage. --- Protection. --- Écologie du paysage.

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Geomorphology --- Landscape ecology --- Géomorphologie --- Ecologie du paysage --- Ecology --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Geomorphology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Géomorphologie

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The Western Ghats forests are endowed with large species and habitat diversity, which is nowadays under threat by increasing demographic pressure and changing land use. To address these challenges, a novel and comprehensive approach is sought from the principles of landscape ecology. Morpho-pedological features are used to delineate landscape units all over the Western Ghats of Kerala, among which the Western Anamalai region is chosen to elucidate the relative influence of physical factors, bioclimate and anthropogenic pressures on the characteristics of natural vegetation and on the status of the vertebrate fauna. Highlighting patterns of resource utilization by proximal and distant stakeholders, the book goes about identifying value-based management zones, while proposing management strategies for conservation and sustainable development.

Environmental Studies --- biodiversité --- écologie humaine --- écologie du paysage --- Ghâts occidentaux --- biodiversity --- Western Ghats --- human ecology --- landscape ecology --- forest management

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Human ecology --- Landscape ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- Ecologie du paysage --- History --- Histoire --- Human ecology - History --- Landscape ecology - History --- Human ecology - History. --- Landscape ecology - History.

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Landscape ecology. --- Landscape assessment. --- Conservation of natural resources. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Paysage --- Conservation des ressources naturelles. --- Évaluation --- Écologie du paysage. --- Évaluation