Environmental problems are continuously increasing and becoming more complex. Landscape ecology sheds light on this multifaceted issue and presents solutions. The integrative approach in landscape ecology is gaining more significance in light of numerous and complex environmental problems. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape ecological approaches and methods. Landscape ecology, as an interdisciplinary field of research, is multifaceted and open to many perspectives. The 5th edition of this classic textbook has been completely revised and is aligned with the current state of research. There is both a European and North American landscape ecology, as well as a more geographically-oriented and a biogeographically-biological landscape ecology. This conceptual diversity corresponds to the focus on the B.