

Concerns that the term “landscape” prioritizes terrestrial places have led to increasing use of terms such as “seascape” and “airscape,” though their usage is minimal in comparison. It is typically used to describe a distinctive combination of natural and cultural features, and often serves as the basic unit of analysis for social and natural science studies. The concept of “landscape” varies within and among disciplines, not to mention different languages. Human-landscape interactions, also often described as nature-society or human-environment interactions, is a topic examined by multiple disciplines and subdisciplines, including but not limited to geography, anthropology, ecology, human ecology, cultural ecology, political ecology, environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and earth systems science. Environmental Ethics, Ecofeminism, and Environmental Justice.Political Economy and Critical Development Theory.Market Environmentalism and Ecological Economics.

Population Pressures on the Environment.

