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The landscape is a finite but dynamic resource which requires careful management. There are complex questions about its use and protection which range in scale from the local to the global. At a localised level the environmental manager may be required to evaluate, for example, whether a specific stand of trees should be felled or a given habitat protected. On a regional scale he may need to determine which farming practices should be permitted or what type of recreational activity should be promoted. The problems of seeking a solution to such issues are complicated further by the range of individuals and organisations that may be affected by a chosen strategy, and who will want to be involved in decisions. Landscape preservation, for example, affects individual farmers and regional agricultural economies whilst questions of air pollution are of concern to power generation managers as well as to private or public forest organisations.
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Downey, I., Heywood, I., Petch, J. (1991). Landscape Ecology as an Operational Framework for Environmental GIS: Zdarske Vrchy, Czechoslovakia. In: Jackson, M.C., Mansell, G.J., Flood, R.L., Blackham, R.B., Probert, S.V.E. (eds) Systems Thinking in Europe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3748-9_17
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