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Landscape research and its anthropocentric orientation

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Man, with his contemporary social and ecological problems is now, much more than at any other time, dependent on the sciences. Social commitment has become one of the basic criteria of the sciences. A contribution of geography to the fulfilment of this task is in the formation of an integrated system of information on the relationships of man to his environment and in making a transition from description to solutions of problems. That is, in the direct participation of geography in decision — making and in the control of landscape change. The International Geographical Union has formed a Working Group — “Landscape Synthesis —Geoecological Foundations of the Complex Landscape Management” — for this purpose. Its aim is an integrated approach to man/environment relations from a diagnostic and a prognostic standpoint. This, at the same time, implies an anthropocentric approach to the landscape — in the interests of harmonic man/landscape relations.

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  1. Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, nl. Obranov mieru 49, CS-886 25, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

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Drdoš, J. Landscape research and its anthropocentric orientation. GeoJournal 7, 155–160 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185163

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