Abstract
Landscape is part of the uninterrupted global wrap defined as one of the axioms of geography by Neef (1956, see Chapter 1.1). At every single spot of the earth’s surface landscape can be regarded as a very complex phenomenon with one vertical dimension (vertical to the surface). In this first geographical dimension the landscape sphere (Haase 1979) is analyzed as to its vertical differentiation and interconnections of sub-spheres and compartment spheres. The subdivision of the landscape sphere into a natural sphere (Naturraum) and an anthroposphere (Kulturraum) shows that landscape disposes of a physical body within a mental and spiritual surrounding structured by different compartment spheres (see Chapter 1.3). The compartment spheres are intensively influencing each other by means of functional interchange and are partly overlapping and integrating each other.
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Bastian, O. et al. (2002). Landscape structures and processes. In: Bastian, O., Steinhardt, U. (eds) Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1237-8_2
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