Towards Human-Nature Harmony

Yongjian HOU

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Landsc. Archit. Front. ›› 2016, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (1) : 22-29.
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Towards Human-Nature Harmony

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This paper connects human interventions on the land through three eras: agricultural, industrial, and a new era, which began around 2000. By examining the relationships of humans to nature during each period, the author attempts to improve humannature relationships in the context of the Anthropocene, while bringing productive and healing changes to both. In this paper, the agricultural era begins with the rise of organized agricultural production and lasts until 1769. It is followed by a shorter period of industrialization (1769 ~ 2000) and ends at the start of the new millennium, which the paper proposes as the beginning of a new era of human-nature harmony. Despite dominating planet level changes, human activity is mutually dependent on the natural environment, and humans have long been producers, consumers, and decomposers. With our current reliance on science and technology, we will only enter a new era of human-nature relationships, or a“harmonious” era when the whole society — human and nonhuman — is truly integrated.

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AnthropoceneⅠ~Ⅲ / Era of Human-Nature Harmony / Earth’s Ecosystem / Historical Cognition

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Yongjian HOU. Towards Human-Nature Harmony. Landsc. Archit. Front., 2016, 4(1): 22‒29

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