Ecosemiotic Landscape - A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Almo Farina, Farina Almo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108819374
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81937-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Environmental Humanities; Elements in Environmental Huma
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Society and culture: general, Environmentalist thought and ideology