"Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationship between urban development and ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems.""The term landscape ecology was coined by Carl Troll, a German Geographer, in 1939."1
Ecology, if defined in a strict way, is a branch of the biological sciences studying the complex relations between organisms and their environment.2 Now ecology could mean the research on human being with the whole environment even including the culture as well. And landscape, as it develops into a larger scale, is no longer limited within "nature". It becomes a part of urban space rather than a opposed force to urbanism. "The most salient characteristics of landscape ecology are its emphasis on the relationship among pattern, process and scale and its focus on broad-scale ecological and environmental issues. These necessitate the coupling between bio-physical and socio-economic sciences"3
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_ecology
2. As defined by Eugene P. Odum and Howard T. Odum in the classic text Fundamentals of Ecology (third edition) (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1953 [1971])
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_ecology
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