Preface
Part 1. Understanding Asian Cultural Landscapes
1. Historical perspectives on the relationships between humanity and nature in Japan
2. Eco-cultural diversity in island and coastal landscapes: conservation and development
3. Ethnic culture and nature: interactions in the Hani terrace landscape
4. The characteristic of cultural landscapes in Malaysia: concept and perspective
5. Introducing geo-cultural landscapes in Iran
6. Cultural landscapes of the Tengger Highland, East Java
7. Traditional forests in villages linking man and nature landscapes
8. 'Cho-bun', the anthropogeneous landscape in Haui Island, Southwestern Korea
9. Human impact on coastal sand dune ecosystem in Korea
10. Have the ecological human rights been globally lost? A conflict of ecological spatial requirements and cultural landscape opportunities in the modern Homo sapiens
Part 2. Measuring and Managing Patterns and Processes of Cultural Landscapes
11. A methodological framework to quantify anthropogenic effects on landscape pattern
12. Analysis of factors affecting the landscape dynamics of islands in western Japan
13. Creating pondscapes for avian communities: an artificial neural network experience beyond urban regions
14. Integrating geographic information into scenic assessment of middle landscapes
15. Sustainable management of Satoyama bamboo landscapes in Japan
16. Characteristics of the spatial distribution, vegetation structure and management systems of Shrine, Temple forests as urban green space: The case of Kitakyushu City
17. Conservation and management of the coastal pine forest as a cultural landscape
19. Restoring Central Asian floodplain ecosystems as natural capital and cultural heritage in a continental desert environment
Part 3. Concluding Remarks
20. Integrating nature and culture in landscape ecology
