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Biocultural Diversity for Sustainable Ecological, Cultural and Sacred Landscapes: The Biocultural Landscape Approach

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The interactions between natural, cultural and spiritual components of landscape, and the values that people associate with them, are key elements to landscape research based on both ecological and cultural principles. The understanding of these interactions and values is an essential prerequisite for the healthy and sustainable management of our planet. Such understanding can be achieved through research on biocultural diversity, meant as the diversity of life on earth in both nature and culture. This paper explores recent developments in ecological landscape research to support biocultural diversity, and offers a new approach based on biocultural landscape.

If we take care of the earth, the earth will take care of us.

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The author would like to thank her inspired maestri and friends at CCLP, Oliver Rackham, Jala Makhzoumi, Jay Appleton and Dick Grove, together with Rob Jongman, Toby McLeod and the IALE 8th World Congress Board. This paper is in memory of Francesco Di Castri and Zev Naveh.

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    Gloria Pungetti

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Pungetti, G. (2013). Biocultural Diversity for Sustainable Ecological, Cultural and Sacred Landscapes: The Biocultural Landscape Approach. In: Fu, B., Jones, K. (eds) Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6530-6_4

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