"This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest...

1. Introduction -- 2. Elucidating complexity theories -- 3. Complexity in the natural sciences -- 4. Complexity in social theory -- 5. Towards transdisciplinarity -- 6. Complexity in philosophy : complexification and the limits to knowledge -- 7. Complexity in ethics -- 8. Earth in the...

pt. 1. The Italian environment of waste management : spatial analyses, convergence, illegal markets and policy assessments -- pt. 2. The international setting : waste trade drivers, convergence and policy making in spatial-framed environments.

1. Introduction : plenty more fish in the sea? -- 2. The North Sea crisis, the Common Fisheries Policy and its reforms -- 3. Fisheries and the principles of good governance : the tensions and contradictions -- 4. Fisheries and the principles of good governance : tensions and contradictions in...

pt. 1. Rise to the challenge : an awakening to awareness -- pt. 2. Reorientations and reflections : building blocks of landscape economics -- pt. 3. Worldwide applications and detailed case studies : integration of practices -- pt. 4. Outlook for landscape economists : burgeoning perspectives on...