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Book Chapter
BC0411-14
TitleWater-focused landscape management
AuthorMeine van Noordwijk, Beria Leimona, Xing Ma, Lisa Tanika, Sara Namirembe and Didik Suprayogo
EditorsPeter A Minang, Meine van Noordwijk, Olivia E. Freeman, Cheikh Mbow, Jan de Leeuw and Delia Catacutan
Year2015
Book TitleClimate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality In Practice
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
City of PublicationNairobi, Kenya
Number of Pages of the book15
Pages179-193
Call NumberBC0411-14
Abstract:
The way water flows and shapes the surface of the Earth, interacting with all forms of life, is often used as the defining element of a landscape. Landscapes are ‘lifescapes’: the space within which human lives can run their course; without access to water no humans can live. The archetypical landscape that we see as beautiful includes clean water, trees in an accessible, half-open terrain, and sources of food and physical security (Dutton, 2010). Beyond artistic beauty, sense of place and identity, water is of key importance to many aspects of human life
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