Lesson One :

literally weal stands for the features of an ecological habitat.

Lesson Two :

figuratively, Weal is used to describe the origins of wealth; biological wealth.

Lesson Three :

by analogy biological wealth is described in terms of biotic diversity; biodiversity.

Lesson Four :

An other more complex matrix of intrusions and interventions

Is it degradation, damage, or destruction?

	Types of intrusions	Interventions
		restore	repair	regenerate
1	degradation
2	damage
3	destruction

 

Lesson Five :

a summary of ways to think about repairing the damages to biotic communities, restoring the losses in biological diversity, and regenerating our world.

Land and landscape as a focus of this web site and study:

• Land
• landscape defined
• landscape as a scale of spatial organization
• landscape interpreted
• land as wealth from WEAL
• land system of the USA
• landscape education is a lifelong study
• land as historical geography
• land as the image of a garden
• gardens
• country
• community of life
• land tied into water
• land as places or terrain
• land as property
• laws of ecology that limits landscape changes
• technology as an agent of changes in the land
• land as a metaphor
• land ethic
• land as energy

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Definitions:

MATRIX, A rectangular array of quantities or expressions in rows and columns that is treated as a single entity and manipulated according to particular rules.