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  1. Ecosemiotic landscape
    a novel perspective for the toolbox of environmental humanities
    Author: Farina, Almo
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108819374
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; RB 10844 ; ER 755
    Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in Environmental Humanities
    Subjects: Human ecology; Environmental sciences / Social aspects; Nature / Effect of human beings on; Semiotik; Ecocriticism
    Scope: 84 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    1. Introduction; 2. Environmental complexity: an ecosemiotic vision; 3. Environmental uncertainty: contrasting strategies and species adaptation; 4. Information theory and meaning; 5. The role of ecology in the ecosemiotic arena; 6. Landscape dimension: some relevant characteristics of landscape; 7. Resources: a general theory; 8. An ecosemiotic approach to landscape description and interpretation: from zoosemiotics to an eco-field model; 9. Fundamentals of ecoacoustics: a new quantitative contribution to the ecosemiotic narrative; 10. Cultural landscapes.

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  2. Ecosemiotic landscape
    a novel perspective for the toolbox of environmental humanities
    Author: Farina, Almo
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1108819370; 9781108819374
    RVK Categories: EC 1879
    Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in environmental humanities
    Subjects: Human ecology; Environmental sciences; Nature; Écologie humaine; Sciences de l'environnement - Aspect social; Homme - Influence sur la nature; human ecology; Environmental sciences - Social aspects; Human ecology; Nature - Effect of human beings on
    Scope: 84 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-84)