Naslov
Landscape as a research problem

Autori
Ogrin, Dušan

Izvornik
Poljoprivredna znanstvena smotra (1331-7768) 64 (1999), 4; 239-242

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, stručni

Ključne riječi
landscape; research problem
(landscae; research problem;)

Sažetak
Landscape is a most versatile and complex topic as is shown in comprehensive studies by the German geographer Gerhard Hard (Hard 1 970). He has pinpointed that as follows: "By making use of the word landscape we actually integrate an aggregate of extremely varied phenomena" (Hard 1978. 17). This has nothing to do with the physical nature of the landscape. The key issue here is in that theunderstanding of what landscape is supposed to be, largely depends on the variety of premises set up as a point of departure by various scientific, technical or art disciplines. Actually, the differences in notions manifest themselves as early as at the beginning of an attempt to define the subject of the discipline or to formulate the problem in the research process. In terms of the physicality, geography has a very broad and simple understanding of landscape. Accordin to various authors, the landscape is a fragment of Earth's surface as the totality of the natural and man-made phenomena contained in it. In a contemporary encyclopaedic definition, landscape is described as a part of Earth's surface with an image in which biotic and abiotic nature as well as human activity are imprinted with specific features (Brockhaus V, 325). Obviously, such a comprehensive notion offers possibilities for many interpretations as provided. e.g. by the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Equally, a recent American publication, edited b G. F. Thompson, recognises that this topic encompasses a wide range of fundamentally different meanings and approaches (Thompson). Numerous semantic and other studies have shown that such a wide field of notions is due to the fact that we regard the landscape as a real material world on the one hand. On the other, the landscape is also what we see, perceive in it or ascribe to it and in this way it can acquire numerous, considerably differing connotations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Poljoprivreda (agronomija)

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