Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

S. Missall, M. Welp, N. Thevs, A. Abliz, and Ü. Halik Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China Faculty of Mathematics and Geog...

Spate irrigation is increasingly recognized as contributing to potential of accessible water-resource use, local food production, and resource sustainability. This study constructs an approach to spate irrigation as a landscape technology by selectively fusing concepts of resilience ecology, political ecology, and actor-network theory. It is applied to a case study of the Calicanto area (Cochab...

This paper proposes a set of web-based indicators for quantifying and ranking the relevance of terms related to key-issues in Ecology and Sustainability Science. Search engines that operate in different contexts (e.g. global, social, scientific) are considered as web information carriers (WICs) and are able to analyse; (i) relevance on different levels: global web, individual/personal sphere, o...

1FWO Flanders Research Foundation, Geography Department, Ghent University, Belgium 2Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 3Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China 4Plant Biology Department, Unit of Botany, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 5Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University ...

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development of the modern education system and iranian high interest to study the new science and broad support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means enter science and scientific attitude to life, not an iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political structure of modern...