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Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge - ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of these patterns goes beyond just their visual appreciation - beautiful though they may be - into a richer understanding of how we experience our environment. By understanding this complex pattern-process interaction we can obtain a deeper awareness of landscape and our place in it - as inhabitants and as shapers. The book explores the nature of patterns and ways of classifying them before studying the nature of perception (primarily visual but including other senses), then proceeds to relate this perception to aesthetics and from there to the design process. From this point the main driving processes in landscape are introduced alongside the resulting patterns, these being climatic, landform, ecosystem and cultural aspects. It is this integrative approach of looking at landscape as a kind of self-organising system, overlaid by conscious human planning activities and the unity of pattern and process, which makes this book unique. Landscape draws from a wide range of neighbouring disciplines, of which the landscape planner or designer needs to be aware, but which are often taught as distinct elements. Bell binds these fundamentals together, which enables the landscape to be 'read', and this reading to be used as the basis for planning and design.

Ecological landscape design. --- Landscape assessment. --- Regional planning --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Paysages --- Aménagement du territoire --- Environmental aspects. --- Evaluation --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Écologie du paysage --- Paysage --- Perception géographique --- Protection --- Philosophie --- Aspect environnemental --- Landschapsanalyse --- Landschapszorg --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Aménagement du territoire --- Philosophie. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique. --- Protection. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique.

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"Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification."--BOOK JACKET.

Landscape assessment. --- Landscape ecology. --- Human geography. --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Geographical perception. --- Paysages --- Ecologie du paysage --- Géographie humaine --- Autochtones --- Savoirs écologiques traditionnels --- Perception géographique --- Ecology. --- Evaluation --- Ecologie --- Traditional ecological knowledge. --- Biopiracy --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Indigenous ecological knowledge --- Indigenous environmental knowledge --- T.E.K. (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- TEK (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- Traditional environmental knowledge --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Assessment, Landscape --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Geographical perception --- Human geography --- Landscape assessment --- Landscape ecology --- Ethnoscience --- Experiential learning --- Ecology --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Ethnoecology. --- Ethnoecology --- Ethnology