LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY - A GOAL-ORIENTED APPLICATION OF THE TRADITIONAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND METHODOLOGY TO A BRANCH OF A NEW QUALITY

We consider that the basic differentiating index of the landscape ecol ogy against neighbouring sciences is the combined subject-object appro ach to its research topic. In other words, landscape ecology is not a science ''about...'', but a science ''for...''. Some basic application s of this thesis read: the landscape is an applied scientific discipli ne for investigating the landscape as an environment for the life and activities of man and other organisms. The landscape-ecological system definition of the environment reads as follows: environment = geosyst em (landscape system) = a complex system of space, position, relief an d all other functionally, mutually interconnected materialistic (natur al, seminatural and man-made) elements of the geosphere, where man and other organisms live and other organisms live and act.