The conservation of cultural landscapes /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Cultural property > Protection.; Landscape assessment.; Landscape protection.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Land Resources.; Biological Resources (General); Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Heritage.; Case studies.; Cultural heritage.; Forest management.; Forests.; Land management.; Land use.; Landscape.; Landscape conservation.; Nature conservation.; Nature reserves.; Rural areas.; Electronic books.
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This book, which contains 18 chapters, presents a range of different methods developed to analyse, restore and manage cultural landscapes, and reports a number of case studies from Europe and North America. This book will be of great interest to a wide range of readers involved in the study, plannin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Framing the issue : a trans-disciplinary reflection on cultural landscapes / M. Agnoletti
• The development of a historical and cultural evaluation approach in landscape assessment : the dynamic of Tuscan landscape between 1832 and 2004 / M. Agnoletti
• Cultural landscapes in northern forests : time, space and affiliation to the land / L. Östlund and I. Bergman
• Energy balance and land use : the making of an agrarian landscape from the vantage point of social metabolism (the Catalan Vallès County in 1860/70) / E. Tello, R. Garrabou and X. Cussó
• Earth observation techniques and geographic information systems as tools for assessing land use/cover changes in a landscape context / G. Chirici, P. Corona and M. Köhl
• The project for the rural landscape park in Moscheta (Tuscany, Italy) / M. Agnoletti, V. Marinai and S. Paoletti
• Long-term vegetation dynamics in Southern Scandinavia and their use in managing landscapes for biodiversity / R.H.W. Bradshaw and G.E. Hannon
• Mountain landscape, pastoral management and traditional practices in the Northern Pyrenees (France) / J.P. Métailié
• Maintaining cultural and natural biodiversity in Europe's economic centre and periphery / P. Angelstam
• Rethinking traditional preservation approaches for managing a forested cultural landscape : the case of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park's Mount Tom forest / R. Diamant, C. Marts and N. Mitchell
• Working forest landscapes : two case studies from North Carolina / G.B. Blank
• Restoration in the American national forests : ecological processes and cultural landscapes / N. Langston
• Land-use and landscape histories : the role of history in current environmental decisions / S. Anderson
• Cultural landscape management in Europe and Germany / S. Weizenegger and W. Schenk
• The restoration of forest landscapes through farmland afforestation measures in Spain / C. Montiel Molina
• Historic landscape restoration : case studies of site recovery in post-industrial South Yorkshire, England / I.D. Rotherham
• Comparative international research on agricultural land-use history and forest management practices : the Tuscan estate of Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park / G. Latz
• Shaping the landscape : long-term effects of the historical controversy about the Viennese forest ("Wienerwald") / E. Johann
• Recovery and valorization of a historical fruit orchard : the Kolymbetra in the Temple Valley, Sicily / G. Barbera, M. Ala, D.S. La Mela Veca and T. La Mantia.