La ecología del paisaje es una disciplina independiente, surgida en los años treinta del pasado siglo. Este volumen ilustra la historia de dicha disciplina, desde sus orígenes hasta sus innovaciones más recientes. Asimismo, el autor apuesta por integrar el estudio del paisaje y la dimensión humana dentro de un amplio ecosistema teórico. El libro combina el recorrido historiográfico, el análisis de las principales aportaciones de las ciencias ecológicas y la rigurosa interpretación de la complejidad ambiental. Almo Farina es profesor asociado de Ecología de la Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales de la Universidad de Urbino. Ha publicado, entre otros libros, Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology (1998) y Landscape Ecology in Action (2000).

This book has emerged as a consequence of the difficulties we experienced in finding information when we first started researching. The goal was to produce a book where as many existing studies as possible could be presented in a single volume, making it easy for the reader to compare methods, results and conclusions. As a result, studies from countries such as Thailand, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania, Czech, Mexico, etc. have been brought together as individual chapters, and references to studies from other countries have been included in the overview chapters where possible. We believe that this opportunity to compare results from different countries will open a new perspective on the subject, allowing the typical characteristics of Organic Agriculture and Organic Food to be seen more clearly. Finally, we would like to thank the contributing authors and the staff at InTech for their efforts and cooperation during the course of publication. I sincerely hope that this book will help researchers and students all over the world to reach new results in the field of Organic Agriculture and Organic Food.