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In the second chapter, I distinguished at least three possible approaches to understanding the landscape: the Individual-Based Perceptional Landscape (IBPL), the Individual-Based Cognitive Landscape (IBCL), and the Neutrality-Based Landscape (NBL). These three different perspectives generate processes and patterns that can be perceived moving around. If these perspectives are indicators of real processes and related patterns, we can expect to see some results in a higher-rank meta-domain. The idea that the landscape is a space in which relationships and interactions happen, or is the geography of every domain, is common to all three visions. In other words, the space is the container in which complexity happens continuously. This complexity embarrasses our science which is based more on separate parts than on relationships.
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Farina, A. (2009). Ontogenesis and Changes of the Landscape: A Probabilistic View. In: Ecology, Cognition and Landscape., vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3138-9_5
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