ECOLOGICAL MEANING IN LANDSCAPE

Ecological Meaning in Landscape

This article deals with the dilemma of manʹs expectations from the environment and the responsiveness of the environment to manʹs desires. Can we find harmony between these opposing forces? The important issue is to pursue our honorable goals, hopefully, in the expectation of finding every element of harmony we can in the relationship between ourselves and the rest of nature, rediscovering old harmonies and perhaps finding some new ones too. This study focuses on some sample studies such as the Kohala Coast on the island of Hawaii and Abbas Abad hills in Tehran, to clearly play the concepts of preference and affordance against each other and use the criteria for sustain ability as a framework. It concludes that in interpreting nature man reeducates himself and in the process his value system changes. Therefore in the long run a new culture will emerge which is more in harmony with the natural processes.