Multifunctional Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Research and Management.

A holistic theory of landscapes should become an integral part of the conceptual foundation of goal-oriented and mission-driven landscape ecology. Based on a dynamic systems view, emerging from the recent paradigm shifts and insights gained from findings on complexity and wholeness multifunctional landscapes should be conceived as tangible, mixed natural and cultural interacting middle-number systems and as the concrete, self-organizing Gestalt systems of our Total Human Ecosystem. Ranging from the smallest mappable ecotope holon to the global ecosphere landscape, they should be studied, upgraded, managed and evaluated with a biperspectivable systems view, treating them simultaneously both as products of both material, natural biogeophysical systems and as mental, cognitive noospheric systems. This can be achieved with the help of innovative transdisciplinary approaches and research methods, in close cooperation between landscape ecologists and ecologically oriented scientists from relevant social sciences, the humanities and arts and the professionals involved in all phases of land use decisions. Acting both as specialists in their own field of land expertise and as integrators, landscape ecologists could play an important dual role in ensuring the future of healthy, attractive and stable multifunctional landscapes as part of the creation of post-industrial symbiotic relations between human society and nature. J. BRANDT, B. TRESS, G. TRESS. [eds.] (2000): Multifunctional Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Research and Management. 28

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