Almo Farina

Ecosemiotic Landscape

A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Environmental Humanities
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9781108819374
• ISBN-10: 1108819370
• Artikelnr.: 60686996

Inhaltsangabe

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.