Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12253/343
Title: Understanding the interactions nature/society for land use management in rural areas. Monitoring and managing land use methodology
Authors: Lourenço, Nelson
Pinto Correia, Teresa
Jorge, Rosário
Russo Machado, Carlos
Keywords: Integrated analysis
complex intreractions
society
environment
Issue Date: 1999
Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences
Citation: Lourenço, N.; Pinto Correia, T.P.; Jorge, R.; Machado, C.R. 1999. Understanding the interactions nature/society for land use management in rural areas. Monitoring and managing land use methodology. in L'ubomír Falt'an (ed.). Europe: Expectations and Reality. The Challenge for the Social Sciences. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Abstract: Today, the Social Sciences still face the absences of an appropriate conceptual framework which could make for the understanding of the complex interactions between society and the environment. In fact, the majority of studies tend to concentrate on the effect and impact of man’s actions on the environment, dedicating little attention to the consequences of those changes on human activity. The methodology proposed in this article for the monitoring and management of land use specifically aims to assume an integrated and systemic vision of the social system/biophysical system relationship. Thus, the study of the changes in land use aims at understanding the environmental changes and, further to identifying them, makes for understanding the motivations and strategies of Man’s interventions in the environment and his reactions in the light of global change.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10884/343
Appears in Collections:A CTAD/GAT - Artigos

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
1999_Understanding_interactions_nature-society.pdf67.03 kBAdobe PDFView/Open


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.