Publication Information
Title: | An ecological aesthetic for forest landscape management |
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Author(s): | Gobster, Paul H. |
Date: | 1999 |
Source: | Landscape Journal. 18(1): 54-64. (1999) |
Station ID: | JRNL-NC-18 |
Description: | Although aesthetics and ecological sustainability are two highly regared values of forest landscapes, practices developed to manage forests for these values can sometimes conflict with one another. In this paper I argue that such conflicts are rooted in our conception of forest aesthetics as scenery, and propose that a normative, "ecological aesthetic" based on the writings of Aldo Leopold and others could help resove conflicts between aesthetic and sustainability values. I then offer suggestions on how we might advance an ecological aesthetic in policy and planning programs, on-the-ground management, and research and theory developement in landscape aesthetics. |
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