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    Landscape Management

    Every landscape is the result of the dynamic interaction among lithospheric nature of the substrate, climate factors and biospheric elements, which determine, all together, the landscape’s facies (lat. “aspect”).

    Content:
    1 LANDSCAPE AND ECOSYSTEM
    1.1 Human impact on the landscape
    1.2 Landscape and ecosystem
    1.3 Ecosystem services
    1.4 Ecosystem in Europe
    2 LANDSCAPE THREATS
    2.1 Pesticides
    2.2 Pollution
    2.3 Water Pollution
    2.4 Soil pollution
    2.5 Urbanization
    3 SOIL AND FERTILITY MANAGEMENT
    3. 1 The Organic Approach
    3.2 Organic Farming Systems
    3.3 Optimum Organic Environment Creation and Maintenance
    3.4 Nutrient Management on Organic Farms
    3.5 Using Manures, Composts, and Legumes
    3.6 Management Guidelines

    Water Management

    Water is essentially significant for life and landscape. It is the basic building block of life and all organisms, from the most primitive to the very advanced animals. Water determines the quality of the landscape. Along with the temperature, the availability of water is an abiotic factor affecting organisms and vegetation. Important processes take place in water and it serves as a solution agent.

    Content:
    Introduction
    1 NATURAL SOURCES OF WATER
    1.1 Pools
    1.2 Periodic water – puddles
    1.3 Wetlands
    2 IRRIGATION
    2.1 Bioclimatic or rain garden

    Regional plants

    Herbal medicine is one of the most ancient healing arts. It has always been and will have been the medicine of the people. As far back as the primitive-communal society human suffered from various diseases that shortened his life. But because he fed on products of the surrounding nature, he gradually started to recognize quality of herbs to heal his diseases and those harmful to destroy his enemies or to bag game more easily. No matter which political power, no matter what globalization pressures putting away real-world problems, no matter what is deemed legal versus illegal, not even FDA in all of its regulatory glory can prevent someone from going his way and using nature´s free medicine.

    Content:
    Introduction
    1 The Benefits of Herb Usage
    1.1 General benefits of the herbs
    1.2 Plants as Foods & Medicines
    1.3 Herbs & Body systems
    2 Natural prevention and pest control
    2.1 Natural pest control methods
    2.1.1 KEEP YOUR PLANTS HEALTHY
    2.1.2 ENCOURAGE PREDATORS OF PESTS (ALLIES)
    2.1.3 GIVE ALLIES FOOD
    2.1.4 DIVERSIFY YOUR PLANTS
    2.1.5 GET PHYSICAL

    Organic farming in livestock production

    The majority of people living in big cities and estranged from nature have no idea where the food they eat comes from, how it is produced and what it consists of. Those who do not pay attention to this, probably buy food produced in farming on large scale and monoculture, where dozens of chemicals are used for their production and also often come from other continents. The agriculture of our days uses a huge scale of plant protecting agents, insecticides, weed killers, fungicides, fertilizers in order to increase crop results. These facts have harmful impact on living systems in the whole world: soil, water, air have been contaminated, the pollinating ability of bees has got in danger. At last it has to be mentioned that the unlimited use of chemicals means serious health risks (the international food scandals of the past years can only be described as the peak of the iceberg).
    Realizing the above mentioned problems more and more people turn to bio (ecological, organic) food produced within secure circumstances without the use of chemicals. They tend to choose the bio-products of the familiar local farmers instead of the foods of the supermarkets with unknown origin