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Jelen, Jakub, Markéta Šantrůčková, and Marek Komárek. "Typology of historical cultural landscapes based on their cultural elements." Geografie 126, no. 3 (2021): 243–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2021126030243.
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Historical cultural landscapes represent numerous values and meanings that are important for today’s society. These cultural landscapes document the specific development of local communities and may reflect their approaches or attitudes toward the environment. Man-made landscape elements are created for special purposes and represent specific values (historical, cultural, environmental, economic, etc.). The analysis of these landscape elements allows us to find out for what purposes the society decided to use the landscape, respectively what functions the landscape performs and what historical or cultural values it represents. The following text presents a typology of historical cultural landscapes based on a cluster analysis of cultural landscape features. Using this method, a typology of landscapes is created that reflects the functional use and values of landscapes based on the analysis of cultural-historical elements and differentiates the rates and methods of land use by human beings. The output of the cluster analysis is visualized in a dendrogram, based on which seven basic landscape categories were defined and described.
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Wu, Yong-qiu, and Hong-wei Xiao. "Preservation and Utilization of Historical Sites: Construction of Urban Linear Culture Landscapes." Open House International 41, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2016-b0015.
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Many historical urban cultural landscapes are suffering the effect of rapid urban economic development. This paper integrally relates historical sites in dispersed and point-shape distributions in cities and proposes strategies and methods for constructing urban linear cultural landscapes. As such, our work aims to form urban cultural landscape communities with an organic and linear distribution. The urban linear cultural landscape is not only an important means for integrally protecting and utilizing historical sites in historical cities but is also a special type of urban cultural landscape. The urban linear cultural landscape’s extensive application can enrich the theory of cultural landscape and protection methods of urban cultural heritage.
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Gábor Kerékgyártó. "Cultural landscape on the border: érmellék." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 49 (November 13, 2012): 197–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/49/2524.
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Cultural landscapes are haunting topic of the european spatial development. Cultural landscapes as cultural heritage determine the local and regional identity. The study shows the role and the significance of the cultural landscape by the help of UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the European Spatial Development Perspective and the European Landscape Convention. The article speaks about how can we maintain and develop cross border landscapes and cultural landscapes and through introducing Érmellék it would like to draw attention to the fact that landscape level planning and development of common landscape politics are one of the main interests of Hungary. That kind of politics play an important role not only in maintaining landscapes but in the regional economic development.
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Goetcheus, Cari, Robin Karson, and Ethan Carr. "Designing Living Landscapes: Cultural Landscapes as Landscape Architecture." Landscape Journal 35, no. 2 (February 2016): vi—xv. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/lj.35.2.vi.
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ADHIKA, I. Made, and I. Dewa Gede Agung Diasana PUTRA. "REINVIGORATING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES FOR PLANNING CULTURAL TOURISM IN BALI." GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites 33, no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 1462–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/gtg.334spl03-594.
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A cultural landscape, a configuration produced by human actions and cultural structures in a physical setting, has a significant role to play as a vital feature of cultural tourism in Bali. However, this configuration has become the most heavily commoditized elements of the development of tourism. Construction of tourist amenities has exploited the notion of a cultural landscape that has been integrated into cultural practices, the environment and agriculture. This development and planning are a paradoxical phenomenon and a challenge for people to retain the identity of their cultural landscape while also seeking economic benefits from tourism. The struggle between the protection of the identity of the cultural landscape translated and manifested in the context of agriculture and its transformation in the context of designing tourist facilities has shaped the fundamental argument for preservation. Since there are different cultural traditions and practices in many Balinese cultural landscapes, the relationship between tourism and the diversity of cultural areas has become a key objective in the development of tourism and planning tourist facilities. This paper explores the current struggles between the concepts of tourism development and planning, and the conservation of Bali's cultural landscape. The paper argues that the focus of Bali's tourism development is to maintain and reinvigorate the integration of natural landscapes and cultural practices that present a persistent link between the agricultural system and religious practices.
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Mitchell, Don. "Cultural landscapes: the dialectical landscape – recent landscape research in human geography." Progress in Human Geography 26, no. 3 (June 2002): 381–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0309132502ph376pr.
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Piras, Francesco, Beatrice Fiore, and Antonio Santoro. "Small Cultural Forests: Landscape Role and Ecosystem Services in a Japanese Cultural Landscape." Land 11, no. 9 (September 6, 2022): 1494. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091494.
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Small woods, linear tree formations, or scattered trees in agricultural areas are receiving increasing attention for their multifunctional role, especially if associated to cultural landscapes. Osaki Kodo’s Traditional Water Management System for Sustainable Paddy Agriculture represents one of the most important cultural landscapes (satoyama) of Japan, also included by the FAO in the GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems) Programme. Here, local farmers surrounded their farmhouses with small woods, called igune, as a protection from the cold winter wind, creating a peculiar landscape characterized by an intensively cultivated plain dotted with small wood patches. The research aims at deepening the knowledge of igune, evaluating the landscape role and monitoring their changes in the last 20 years, through multitemporal and spatial analyses. In addition, a literature review has been performed to assess other Ecosystem Services (ESs) provided by igune within the study area. Despite the limited overall surface, 1737 igune and small woods currently characterize the area, with 72% of them having a surface smaller than 0.5 hectares. The multitemporal and spatial analyses show that their number, distribution, and spatial pattern remained almost completely unchanged in the last 20 years, testifying their key role in characterizing the local cultural landscape. Least-Cost Path analysis highlighted a crucial role in connecting the two forest nodes of the region, as 90% of the path passes inside more than 70 different igune and small woods. Literature review demonstrated that igune and other small woods still provide various ESs, including ecological network, habitat for various flora and fauna species, firewood, and byproducts, as well as cultural services. This maintenance of the traditional management in cultural forests is crucial not only to retain their landscape role, but mostly for the preservation of the related ESs, as changes in the management can lead to changes in horizontal and vertical structures, and in species composition.
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Alvarez Munarriz, Luis. "The Cultural Landscape Concept." Aibr, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 63–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.11156/aibr.060104e.
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Gilarowski, Jerzy. "Natural and Cultural Landscapes of Equatorial Africa." Miscellanea Geographica 12, no. 1 (December 1, 2006): 155–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2006-0019.
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Abstract This paper attempts to characterise various cultural landscapes in the area of Equatorial Africa. To achieve this, the contents of various thematic maps and satellite photos representing: areas covered with forests (mostly secondary forests), nature reserves, areas of extensive and intensive agriculture and urban-industrial areas were overlaid with the contents of map of potential vegetation (which represent, to use a simplification, the natural, primeval landscape). The method applied allowed for distinguishing five types of cultural landscape that correspond to five levels of transformation of the primeval landscape. The resulting map shows a mosaic-like structure of landscapes. This structure changes constantly. The surface area of regions with a certain landscape type increases or decreases, or else the regions change their locations. A detailed analysis of socio-economic processes (and the related changes in the natural environment) can constitute a basis for a prediction of cultural landscape transformation. It is the author’s opinion that such prediction could be applied in various planning projects.
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Oubiña, César Parcero, Felipe Criado Boado, and Manuel Santos Estévez. "Rewriting landscape: Incorporating sacred landscapes into cultural traditions." World Archaeology 30, no. 1 (June 1998): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1998.9980403.
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Polyvach, Kateryna. "Cultural landscape zoning of Ukraine." 57, no. 57 (December 1, 2022): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2022-57-13.
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Formulation of the problem. Nowadays in Ukraine there is a significant gap in the application of cultural-landscape approach and the lack of cultural and landscape zoning (CLZ) at different taxonomic levels, as one of the fundamental stages in the protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage, which is recognized in a number of international documents by the world community. The purpose of the article. The purpose of this study is to develop methodological approaches to CLZ in Ukraine. Analysis of recent research and publications. The study and analysis of the experience of differentiation and zoning of different level territories on the basis of cultural and landscape approach in some European countries showed the crucial role of CLZ in studying cultural landscapes and planning management actions for their protection, conservation and use. Methodology and results. The overall purpose of CLZ was to identify, define and differentiate integral natural and cultural systemic territorial formations of different levels, which form a set of interconnected cultural landscapes in a given area. The main factors of cultural-landscape differentiation of Ukraine at the macro level were natural-geographical, ethnographic, linguistic, historical-geographical, historical-political and administrative-territorial features and features of spatial localization and concentration of natural and cultural heritage - immovable and intangible. The information base for conducting the CLZ were researches that reflects the territorial differentiation of Ukraine by these groups of features and has developed appropriate zoning schemes with their cartographic implementation. The taxonomic system of the country's CLZ has been developed. It consists of two levels: 14 cultural-landscape regions and 52 cultural-landscape macro-districts; 26 cultural and landscape regions have been identified as a separate taxon, outside of the hierarchy, according to the administrative-territorial division of the country. The most important result of the study – the map "Cultural-landscape zoning of Ukraine", became one of the key topics of the electronic atlas "Population of Ukraine and its natural and cultural heritage". The development of the atlas was completed in 2020 by the Institute of Geography of NASU. Scientific novelty and practical significance. For the first time in Ukraine, CLZ has been developed at the macro level, thus starting to fill a gap of the absence of domestic developments of this kind. The study identified proposals on the main directions of development and practical application of CLZ in the field of protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage through inclusion in the systems of national and regional strategy, spatial development planning, research on integrated study of territory, mapping and development of CLZ regions and administrative districts, etc.
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Cooper, David E. "The cultural landscape." Philosophers' Magazine, no. 50 (2010): 32–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tpm20105043.
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Roberts, Gareth. "The cultural landscape." Landscape Research 19, no. 3 (December 1994): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426399408706442.
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Ismail, Nor Atiah, and Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos. "Cross-Cultural Ethnic Identity in Urban Residential Area: An Epistemology." Applied Mechanics and Materials 747 (March 2015): 172–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.747.172.
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Aresidential landscape is one expression of the intrinsic and cognitive values of a relationship between humans and their environment. Experiential and phenomenological landscapes are established when people shape their living environment; in turn they are shaped and constructed by this living environment. Landscape alteration is one of the responses to the feelings of “outsideness” during the post-occupancy period. This paper will provide an understanding of the landscape alteration phenomenon in urban residential housing and the landscape values embodied by these altered landscapes.
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Liu, Hong Lin. "Study on Regional Cultural Landscape Classification of Kunming’s Leisure Agricultural Garden." Applied Mechanics and Materials 99-100 (September 2011): 546–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.99-100.546.
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Through investigating the characteristic of regional cultural landscape of leisure agricultural garden around Kunming city, seven landscape types are proposed including rural agriculture landscape, folk customs landscape, village and township landscape, leisure resort landscape, returning to nature landscape. The regional cultural landscapes are analyzed in depth and breadth. The results can provide design ideas for building leisure agricultural garden having regional culture characteristic.
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T. Carson, Mike. "Natural-cultural landscape heritage at Ritidian, Guam." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 4, no. 1 (May 13, 2014): 35–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-03-2012-0012.
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Purpose – Landscapes bear potential as heritage resources, unifying natural and cultural history that can be experienced today in special preserved areas. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Geoarchaeological investigation 2006-2011 explored this potential at the Ritidian Unit of Guam National Wildlife Refuge. Findings – As experienced today, the Ritidian landscape heritage embodies the complex outcomes of a 3,500-year record of ecology and evolution. Research limitations/implications – A long-term perspective of unified natural-cultural history will increase scientific accuracy and enhance visitor experience of landscapes of heritage resources. Practical implications – Sustainable development of landscape heritage can occur most successfully in cases of thorough research in areas of protected and managed ecosystems with reasonable public access. Originality/value – The detailed results in this case may serve as a model example for other studies and programmes developing landscapes as heritage resources.
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Hasim, Irfan Sabarilah, Indah Widiastuti, and Iwan Sudradjat. "Symbolic interactionism in vernacular cultural landscape research." ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur 8, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.30822/arteks.v8i1.2080.
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Customary and traditional villages, also called vernacular cultural landscapes, are local settlement units whose inhabitants adhere to ancestral beliefs. It is important to conduct research on vernacular cultural landscapes in Indonesia, given the usual and concerning degradation of cultural landscapes. Different places have different cultures and different customary rules and habits. Each has its uniqueness and distinctiveness, so there is no one standardized approach or method that can be adapted to study the vernacular cultural landscape. Different places may require different research approaches or methods; even the same place if studied under a different topic or time frame, may also require a different approach or method. There are research approaches commonly used by the researcher of the vernacular cultural landscape, including phenomenology, narrative study, case study, grounded theory, and ethnography. This article will review one approach that can be an alternative for the researcher of the vernacular cultural landscape, namely Symbolic Interactionism. Symbolic Interactionism is an approach that can be effectively applied to study human groups, community life, and social interactions. Symbolic interactionism is able to reveal the relationships that occur naturally among members of the society, particularly the relationship between intangible symbols, rules, norms, and daily activities, with tangible things such as the formation of space, buildings, circulation, and other physical configurations.
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Plit, Joanna, and Urszula Myga-Piątek. "The Degree of Landscape Openness as a Manifestation of Cultural Metamorphose." Quaestiones Geographicae 33, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0036.
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Abstract The issues of aesthetic assessment of landscapes has now become important due to the need of rational and balanced cultural landscape management and the implementation of the provisions of the European Landscape Convention. The aim of this article is to show the methodology of the assessment and interpretation of the degree of the current openness of the cultural landscape of Poland as an effect of a historical process. The chronological analysis made it possible to single out stages of opening/enclosing of the landscapes of Poland with reference to crucial natural, historical and cultural factors. The degree of landscape openness may be treated as a synthetic indicator of the natural and cultural environment evolution. When a landscape type is viewed as a result of natural and anthropogenic processes, the analysis of proportions between the surface of natural and cultural elements becomes of prime importance. In the historical times, the process of landscape enclosing was not unidirectional. Four stages of transformation of cultural landscapes in Poland have been distinguished. These stages are characterized by differences of the landscape openness. It can be interpreted as the result of cultural metamorphosis.
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Ashraf Mohamed Talat Ibrahim, Ali, and Jūratė Kamičaitytė. "Impact of Displacement Phenomena on Landscape Identity: Application of Cultural Values Model." Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering 28, no. 1 (June 22, 2021): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.28.1.27675.
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The research attempted to discover the impact of displacement phenomena on the identity of landscape, by using Janet Stephenson’s Cultural Values Model to study and analyze cultural landscapes. The model was chosen due to its universality, simplicity and embodiment of the relational concept of landscape perception and evaluation. The result of landscape evaluation depends on the characteristics of both landscape and observer, as well as on the relation of the object and subject. In order to understand the complexity and diversity of landscape and its identity, these were analyzed through a ternary system, consisting of forms, practices, and relationships, i.e. what is seen, what is happening and what it means to those who see and use it. The research represents a feasible and pragmatic approach to understand the complexity of landscape and its identity, by tracing back their retrospective changes due to the impact of displacement phenomena – a shift of objects, behaviours or relationships. Through this theoretical and methodological model, multiple universal correlational patterns were developing, in which the three components encountering the displacement behave and interact with each other, leading to an ambiguous impact on landscape identity and the socio-cultural quality of the human living environment. By studying and time-tracking different landscape cases that experienced major displacements from around the world to one of landscape’s systemic components, the research results show some regular patterns in landscape identity changes, and how its structural tangible and intangible system performs and effects in creating, or destroying landscape identity, defying the limits of spatial and historical context.
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Venkatachary, Balaji, and Vishakha Kawathekar. "Understanding the Relationship between Component and Attribute of Cultural Landscapes: Case of Indian Music and Cultural Landscapes." Journal of Heritage Management 3, no. 1 (June 2018): 112–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455929618773390.
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The widely recognized definition of ‘Cultural Landscape’ in current practice is borrowed from UNESCO as Combined works of Nature and of Man.1 They are complex entities consisting of multiple layering of built-unbuilt components including intangible cultural aspects. These components are interrelated and interdependent. The landscape evolves together through combined natural and cultural processes. In current discourse and practice of heritage management, value-based assessment is a widely accepted approach. Evaluation of cultural landscapes for its Significance and Value is a complex process that requires an understanding of interwoven layers of components and attributes.2 Systematic understanding of such relationships between components and attributes is still in its infancy. Amongst various such identified intangible agencies, this study chooses to explore music. A study of secondary sources was undertaken. Cultural landscapes nominated as World Heritage Sites and identified Indian sites were systematically examined to understand various components and attributes. Using the indicators from this study and the theoretical framework of sociomusicology, a research design was prepared. Recognizing the historical association of music with the sites on the Kaveri river basin in peninsular India, a reconnaissance study was undertaken for onsite validation. Musical associations were spatially mapped for analysis and the findings are presented. Systematic understanding of the relationships between components of a cultural landscape and intangible cultural traditions is still in its infancy. The undertaken study is an exploratory work that focuses on understanding the relationship between components of a cultural landscape and ‘intangible attributes’, especially music. A study of secondary sources was undertaken in two parts. In the first part, concept of cultural landscape has been explored. Cultural landscapes nominated as World Heritage Sites were systematically examined to understand various components and attributes. The knowledge helped in formation of indicators for evaluation of cultural landscapes. In the second part of the study, selected case studies of Indian cultural landscapes were studies with the developed indicators. Musical traditions existing in these sites were theoretically reduced to basic components and mapped for analysis.
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Pearson, Diane, and Julian Gorman. "Acknowledging Landscape Connection: Using Sense of Place and Cultural and Customary Landscape Management to Enhance Landscape Ecological Theoretical Frameworks." Land 12, no. 4 (March 23, 2023): 729. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12040729.
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Landscapes are important socio-ecological systems. They are widely researched through landscape ecology to aid conservation and environmental management efforts, yet these efforts are not always as successful as they could be in terms of on-the-ground impact. Increasingly when considering conservation, it is being recognized that indigenously managed landscapes have slower rates of biodiversity loss and better environmental outcomes. Local knowledge and connection to the landscape can play a significant part in successfully managing these landscapes. Acknowledging that stewardship of the landscape is more effective when people are a part of the landscape with deep-rooted connection to place is important for understanding the significance of traditional ecological knowledge and the implementation of indigenous-led action. It has also been shown that researchers who have a stronger sense of place and connection to landscapes can also drive initiatives that have better environmental outcomes. This means that human connections to landscapes are important for management strategies, and a better understanding of the human cognition of landscapes is necessary in landscape ecological theoretical frameworks. This review paper explores literature that acknowledges cultural perspectives and cognition of landscapes and how this relates to landscape ecology. It makes recommendations about how landscape ecology can contribute towards better on-the-ground outcomes by embracing more effective mechanisms of collaboration and participation to incorporate local and indigenous knowledge.
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Moore, Tom, Vincent Guichard, and Jesús Álvarez Sanchís. "The place of archaeology in integrated cultural landscape management." Journal of European Landscapes 1 (May 8, 2020): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/jel.2020.1.47039.
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Across Europe, landscape is recognised as a frame through which societal values are defined and embedded. The European Landscape convention and wider research has drawn attention to the need for integrating a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure landscape sustainability. Archaeology is increasingly recognised as having an important place in integrated landscape management but often remains relatively peripheral. This paper examines the place of archaeology in specific European regions and the potential ways of integrating archaeological heritage in landscape management. Emerging from a project funded by the Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage (Resituating Europe’s FIrst Towns (REFIT): A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes), we explore the place of a set of common European heritage assets, Iron Age oppida, in the management of the landscape they are a part of and how they might be used better to engage and connect stakeholders. Using four case studies, we review the present integration of archaeology within landscape management and how this operates at a local level. From this we explore what challenges these case-studies present and outline ways in which the REFIT project has sought to develop strategies to respond to these in order to enhance and promote co-productive management of these landscapes.
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Moylan, Elizabeth, Steve Brown, and Chris Kelly. "Toward a Cultural Landscape Atlas: Representing all the Landscape as Cultural." International Journal of Heritage Studies 15, no. 5 (September 2009): 447–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527250903072781.
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Otero, Anna, Dallen J. Timothy, Nuria Galí, and Dolors Vidal-Casellas. "Historical Pathways as Promotion and Protection of the Cultural Landscape: Tourism and the Camí de Ronda on the Costa Brava." PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural 21, no. 2 (2023): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2023.21.017.
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This article reflects on the growing trend of cultural landscape appreciation and connecting landscapes with their broader heritage surroundings. It focuses on historical trails and their adjacent cultural and natural heritage as a holistic cultural landscape with a particular case from the Costa Brava. The paper links the concepts of natural scenery, identity, authenticity, coastal and cultural heritage, trails, routes and cultural tourism as the basis for understanding cultural landscapes in a heritage tourism context. This paper provides perspectives on how a coastal trail and its surrounding heritage can connect and be experienced as a cultural landscape, which includes architecture, art, literature and archaeology. The findings suggest five themes that connect the historical path with the region’s heritage landscape: the role of tangible and intangible heritage, the development of a heritage discourse, promoting a heritage route, the division of the route into three sections and their connections to tourism, and the acknowledgement of a unique cultural landscape. The totality of the heritage landscape with all its components complements, and is an integral part of, the coastal landscape that appeals to many tourists in the Costa Brava.
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Aksu, Gül Aslı, Şermin Tağıl, Nebiye Musaoğlu, Emel Seyrek Canatanoğlu, and Adnan Uzun. "Landscape Ecological Evaluation of Cultural Patterns for the Istanbul Urban Landscape." Sustainability 14, no. 23 (November 30, 2022): 16030. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142316030.
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With the widespread population growth in cities, anthropogenic influences inevitably lead to natural disturbances. The metropolitan area of Istanbul, with its rapid urbanization rate, has faced intense pressure regarding the sustainability of urban habitats. In this context, landscapes comprising patches affected by various disturbances and undergoing temporal changes must be analyzed, in order to assess city-related disturbances. In this study, the main objective was to understand how urbanization changed the function of the spatial distribution of the urban mosaic and, more specifically, its relationship with the size, shape, and connection among land-use classes. For this purpose, we took Besiktas, a district of Istanbul, as the study area. We evaluated the landscape pattern of the urban environment in two stages. First, we used medium-resolution satellite imagery to reveal the general interactions in the urbanization process. Landscape- and class-level landscape metrics were selected to quantify the landscape connectivity, and the distances between classes (green areas and artificial surfaces), patterns, and processes, using five satellite images representing a time span of 51 years (1963, 1984, 1997, 2005, and 2014). The general landscape structure was examined by looking at the temporal–spatial processes of artificial surface and green areas obtained from these medium-resolution satellite images. The trends in selected landscape-level metrics were specified and discussed through the use of a moving window analysis. We then used Pleiades high-resolution satellite imagery (2015) to analyze the landscape structure in more detail. This high-resolution base image allows us to recognize the possibility of classifying basic cultural landscape classes. The findings regarding the spatial arrangement of each class in the areas allocated to 14 cultural landscape classes were interpreted by associating them with the landscape functions. Finally, particulate matter (PM10) concentration data were collected and evaluated as an ecological indicator, in order to reveal the relationships between landscape structure and landscape function. In short, we first evaluated the whole landscape structure using medium-resolution data, followed by the classification of cultural landscapes using high-resolution satellite imagery, providing a time-effective—and, therefore, essential—auxiliary method for landscape evaluation. This two-stage evaluation method enables inferences to be made that can shed light on the landscape functions in an urban environment based on the landscape structure.
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Proverbs, Tracey, and Trevor Lantz. "Cumulative Environmental Impacts in the Gwich’in Cultural Landscape." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (June 8, 2020): 4667. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114667.
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Environmental changes are impacting northern environments and human communities. Cumulative impact assessments are vital to understanding the combined effects of regional industrial developments and natural disturbances that affect humans and ecosystems. A gap in cumulative impacts literature includes methods to evaluate impacts in cultural landscapes. In this study, we utilized spatial overlay analysis to assess cumulative environmental impacts in the cultural landscape of northern Canada’s Gwich’in Settlement Region. In three analyses, we quantified and mapped: (1) Cultural feature density, (2) cumulative environmental disturbance, and (3) potential overlap between disturbances and cultural features. Our first analysis depicts the extent and pattern of cultural relationships with regional landscapes and illustrates the Gwich’in cultural landscape, with widespread harvesting trails, named places, traditional use areas, and archaeological sites found in highest densities near important waterways. Our second analysis suggests that spatial overlay can track multiple disturbances, illustrating diffuse, lower intensity cumulative environmental impacts. The final analysis shows that overlaying disturbance and cultural feature data provides a novel way to investigate cumulative impacts in a cultural landscape, indicating relatively low levels of potential overlap between Gwich’in cultural features and disturbances. These methods provide one way to investigate cumulative impacts, relevant for well- documented cultural landscapes.
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Lavrenova, Olga. "Color Semantics of the Cultural Landscape." Arts 12, no. 3 (May 30, 2023): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12030111.
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A cultural landscape is the result of a continuous interaction between the surrounding natural landscape and culture. Meanings, symbols, and codes of culture are an integral part of it. This paper is a review of publications on current research over the past 20 years. The aim is to analyze the existing research practices, which are based on factual evidence and existing theoretical foundations, using an interdisciplinary approach, in order to come closer to a sufficiently holistic understanding of the coloristic semantics of the cultural landscape. Such a review and analysis of disparate studies allows for the first time the correlation of different types of cultural landscapes (urban, rural, gardens, and parks) and different types of signifier functions performed in them by color—signals, indices, iconic models, conventional signs or symbols, zero, or empty signs. The author analyzes the difference in the semantics of chromatic and achromatic colors and explores the landscape chromodynamics, namely, by creating the first-ever classification of the types and meanings of color foci of various durations—from days to decades. Color loci signs are continuously communicating in the cultural landscape, which is a field of constant “cultural explosion”, where traditional cultural meanings are transmitted and new meanings are generated. The author comes to the conclusion that color symbolism is part of the “landscape-as-text” containing certain information—“messages” of culture to itself. In these messages, color has sacral, temporal, and historical semantics, thus creating an extended semantic frame for the reproduction of cultural codes.
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Milan, Selena Bagnara. "Cultural Landscapes: The Future in the Process." Journal of Heritage Management 2, no. 1 (June 2017): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455929617726925.
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The cultural dimension of any cultural landscape embodies various aspects associated with the local community that act as a generating force. Conversely, cultural landscapes play a crucial role in people’s quality of life and sense of belonging, their features contributing to the overall landscape perception and character. Therefore, all heritage management and conservation approaches ought to be based on the identification and consideration of this interrelationship and provide a shared vision—within a global context—through the adoption of cross-disciplinary methods of analysing, evaluating and monitoring cultural landscapes in all their dimensions over time. Within the above conceptual framework, this article attempts to present a meaningful contribution for specific challenges and opportunities connected with the management of cultural landscapes reflecting their multifunctional acceptation. Considering that the development of a management plan is part of a higher management process as well as an essential tool for creating agreement among stakeholders and professionals, the article concludes with an outlook on landscape future scenarios, highlighting those forward-looking approaches that are more effective in governing change in such a way that cultural landscapes’ significant functions and values endure, along with supporting cultural and human sustainable development based on a balanced and critical assessment of the community interests.
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Yang, Weili, Bing Fan, Jingbo Tan, Jing Lin, and Teng Shao. "The Spatial Perception and Spatial Feature of Rural Cultural Landscape in the Context of Rural Tourism." Sustainability 14, no. 7 (April 6, 2022): 4370. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14074370.
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The development of rural tourism in the greater Xi’an area is in full swing, which is an important indicator for the implementation of rural revitalization. However, there are certain realistic challenges such as the lack of rural culture, the destruction of cultural context, and the loss of “rurality” of tourist areas. It is of vital significance to explore, integrate and revive the rural culture by advancing the rural cultural landscape based on the concept of cultural landscape in human geography. The specific categories of the rural cultural landscape were divided into three perspectives of agricultural production, famers’ lifestyle, and countryside ecology. Spatial reflections of various rural cultural landscapes were carried out based on pluralistic new data. The spatial characteristics of cultural landscapes were studied by using kernel density analysis and creating Thiessen polygons analysis and interpolation in ArcGIS spatial analysis, in order to show the spatial patterns of the special rural cultural areas and the cultural landscapes in greater Xi’an. Above all, our study inventoried and mapped the rural cultural landscapes in the context of rural tourism, identified spatial features of rural cultural landscape and rural tourism, and we proposed solutions that promote the cultural quality of rural tourism which are of vital significance in reviving rural culture.
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Vasiljevic, Nevena. "The role of landscape planning in European landscape convention implementation." Glasnik Srpskog geografskog drustva 88, no. 3 (2008): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gsgd0803051v.
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The most important recent policy initiative concerning quality and diversity, as well as natural and cultural landscape's values within all Europe is European Landscape Convention. The Convention was adopted by Council of Europe's Community of Ministers on 20th October 2000., in Firenze, Italy. The main goal of the Convention is protection, planning and management of the landscape as important part of the quality of life for people living everywhere: in urban areas and in countryside, in degraded areas as well as in the areas with high quality and those recognized as being of outstanding beauty. Serbia has singed Convention on 21 of September 2007. Diversity and quality, the cultural and natural values linked to European landscapes are part of Europe's common heritage, and it is important to co-operate towards its protection, management and planning According to explored international experiences, landscape plan, with its known methodology, is recognized as the most suitable tool in the most Countries which have already implemented European Landscape Convention. As to situation in Serbia, landscape planning is not treated in adequate or appropriate way within system of spatial planning. On the basis of the recent European experiences regarding The European Landscape Convention, the paper will underline the inevitability of landscape planning integration into the spatial planning system at the national, regional and city level, in Serbia.
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Lavrenova, Olga. "Cultural Landscape As Metaphor." Proceedings of the 14th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS) 6 (2021): 153–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24308/iass-2019-6-013.
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Chuchin-Rusov, A. E. "The New Cultural Landscape." Russian Studies in Philosophy 42, no. 3 (December 2003): 70–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/rsp1061-1967420370.
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Luken, James O., Oliver L. Gilbert, and Penny Anderson. "Managing the Cultural Landscape." BioScience 49, no. 4 (April 1999): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1313618.
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Nazareth, Peter, and Eckhard Breitinger. "Uganda: The Cultural Landscape." World Literature Today 74, no. 4 (2000): 798. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156106.
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Westerdahl, Christer. "The maritime cultural landscape." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 21, no. 1 (February 1992): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1992.tb00336.x.
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Stevens, Christine. "Reshaping the Cultural Landscape?" Folk Life 47, no. 1 (July 2009): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175967009x422855.
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Palang, Hannes, Katriina Soini, Anu Printsmann, and Inger Birkeland. "Landscape and cultural sustainability." Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 71, no. 3 (May 27, 2017): 127–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2017.1343381.
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Zalasińska, Katarzyna, and Katarzyna Piotrowska. "Kalwaria Zebrzydowska cultural landscape." International Journal of Heritage Studies 18, no. 3 (May 2012): 307–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.652974.
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Thinnakorn, Wirut, and Tanakorn Anurak. "Valuing Cultural Landscape Heritage in Historic Areas: Proposed Assessment Criteria from Thailand." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 17, no. 5 (August 31, 2022): 1543–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.170518.
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A historic area is a valuable cultural heritage site. A historic community’s landscape is no less valuable than the historic buildings. In Thailand, conservation organisations only preserve and value buildings with high archaeological importance. The appreciation of surrounding landscapes is still lacking. This study aimed to establish criteria for valuing cultural landscape in Thailand. The methodology was by reviewing concepts of cultural heritage, historic area, cultural landscape, and evaluation criteria created by UNESCO and Thai organisations so as to build the new criteria. We then proposed the criteria in four areas: aesthetics, history, science and education, and society, which would correspond to current guidelines to cover cultural landscapes comprehensively.
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Mao, Wei, Shuai Hong, Tengfei Chai, Junchao Shen, and Jie Shen. "Cultural Landscape Reproduction of Typical Religious Architecture in Qingjiangpu Based on Scene Theory." Applied Sciences 13, no. 1 (December 21, 2022): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13010082.
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Scenes are important carriers of cultural expression. Cultural landscapes reveal specific cultural connotations through various scenes, and people understand and give things cultural connotations through scenes. In recent years, new techniques for visualizing cultural landscape heritage have been made possible by the advent of mapping and geographic information technology. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal’s culture is a “living” cultural legacy. As one of the key links in the canal’s cultural chain, Qingjiangpu is crucial to reproducing its cultural landscape. This paper first discusses the relationship between scene theory and the cultural landscape. Starting from the five elements of scene theory, through the collection of online text data and the corresponding data obtained from questionnaire research, the paper analyzed the scene constructed by the cultural landscape and the urban spirituality embodied by the scene. Through the deep excavation of cultural landscape and its historical context, the theoretical framework of “node-neighbor-city” cultural landscape reproduction is proposed. Taking the ancient city of Qingjiangpu as an example, the cultural landscape has been reproduced at different scales and in different dimensions through various technical means. This study can provide a theoretical basis and practical reference for the research of cultural landscape reproduction.
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Sinamai, Ashton. "Ivhu rinotsamwa: Landscape Memory and Cultural Landscapes in Zimbabwe and Tropical Africa." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 21, no. 1 (March 30, 2022): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3836.
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Perceptions of the various cultural landscapes of tropical Africa continue to be overdetermined by western philosophies. This is, of course, a legacy of colonialism and the neo-colonial global politics that dictate types of knowledge, and direct flows of knowledge. Knowledges of the communities of former colonised countries are seen as ancillary at best, and at worst, irrational. However, such ‘indigenous knowledge’ systems contain information that could transform how we think about cultural landscapes, cultural heritage, and the conception of 'intangible heritage’. In many non-western societies, the landscape shapes culture; rather than human culture shaping the landscape – which is the notion that continues to inform heritage. Such a human-centric experience of landscape and heritage displaces the ability to experience the sensorial landscape. This paper outlines how landscapes are perceived in tropical Africa, with an example from Zimbabwe, and how this perception can be used to enrich mainstream archaeology, anthropology, and cultural heritage studies. Landscapes have a memory of their own, which plays a part in creating the ‘ruins’ we research or visit. Such landscape memory determines the preservation of heritage as well as human memory. The paper thus advocates for the inclusion of ‘indigenous knowledge’ systems in the widening of the theoretical base of archaeology, anthropology, and heritage studies.
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White, Kristopher D. "The Snow Leopard and Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Kazakhstan." Society & Animals 28, no. 1 (November 26, 2018): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341551.
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Abstract The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is commonly seen in the cultural landscape within the Republic of Kazakhstan. This contrasts rather starkly with the endangered species’ presence on the natural landscape there. Three contemporary cultural landscape sightings of the snow leopard in Kazakhstan—the Almaty zoological park, the Kazakhstan 2030 strategy initiative, and the 2011 Asian Winter Games—are explored here. The positive imagery and symbolism linking the snow leopard to the Republic of Kazakhstan cements the non-human animal’s status as an unofficial state symbol. The borderlands of snow leopard landscapes, those spaces of cultural and natural environmental overlap, are vital for conservation efforts. Reincorporating non-human animals into social science research offers the opportunity for cultural landscape investigations. For the snow leopard, cultural landscape research may prove as important as traditional natural landscape research in Kazakhstan and throughout this majestic non-human animal’s territorial range.
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Nurme, Sulev, Zenia Kotval, Nele Nutt, Mart Hiob, and Sirle Salmistu. "Baroque manorial cores and the landscape." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 4, no. 2 (November 17, 2014): 166–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-06-2013-0024.
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Purpose – The concepts of “historically valuable landscape,” “historical landscape space,” “landscape space attached to an object of cultural importance,” etc. seem to be understood by most landscape professionals, yet these terms are highly abstract with many possible interpretations. The protected zone of cultural monuments prescribed by law helps to ensure the preservation of these historic artifacts and signifiers of local heritage. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper seeks to provide guidelines that can be articulated to protect cultural landscapes. These guidelines are based on a manorial core study was carried out in 2010 to analyze the changes in road networks and spatial systems of manors over the past 150 years. This study is part of a larger research effort on different aspects of Estonian baroque manor gardens. Findings – Many landscapes may contain historically relevant objects and phenomena not protected by law, which, nevertheless form the basis of a unique local landscape. The altering of such a landscape not only changes its natural form, but may directly impact the cultural identity and milieu of the area, thereby affecting how its inhabitants relate to their environment. Originality/value – Preservation of historic buildings and landscapes plays an important role particularly in relation to manor landscapes. This network has remained well preserved, and the rural landscape based on this Baltic-German manor culture is still strongly reflected in the current landscape through the existing historic landscape elements like housing, viewsheds, roads, etc. Without landscape analysis, it can be challenging for an outsider to understand the spatial context, especially when it has changed and evolved through the years.
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Vasilјevic, Nevena, and Boris Radic. "The cultural landscape: From conservation to planning concept." Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry, no. 114 (2016): 257–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gsf1614257v.
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The interpretation of the concept of cultural landscape, as well as the interpretation of the general concept of landscape, depends on the context in which the process takes place. As an antithesis to natural landscape, and as notion of spatial and temporal interaction of man and nature, the cultural landscape is conceptualized in terms of scientific approach. The experiences prove that the traditional dichotomy in defining the landscape value (natural vs. cultural), as well as the aspect of its protection, evolving into a holistic approach, which is promoted in European Landscape Convention, at the beginning of XXI century. In the modern theory and practice of spatial planning and nature protection, the concept of cultural landscape appears as a holistic, multidimensional and multifunctional entity, which, in times of globalization, should be preserved and developed in accordance with its regional and local identity (character). The question is: what kind of methodological approach should be applied in determining the landscape value in the spatial planning and nature conservation? The aim of the research is to explain the evolution of landscape approach form reductionism to holistic problem-oriented transdisciplinary research that allows appropriate evaluation of the cultural landscape potential and its application in the spatial planning concept. At the same time, the aim is to explain the conceptualization of the cultural landscape in terms of the institutional protection of natural and cultural heritage and spatial planning in Serbia. The purpose of this paper is to point to legal instruments of the Spatial Plan of the Republic of Serbia which defining the obligations of determining the landscape character in the planning concept in spatial and urban plans, as well as the re-evaluation of existing values of cultural landscapes. The subject of the paper is theoretical concept of cultural landscape and the character of the cultural landscape Trsic-Tronosa. The value of the landscape character is interpreted and metrically expressed for the purposes of the Study of protection of the landscape of exceptional features Trsic-Tronosa - cultural landscape. At the end, the finding of the presented research confirming the applicability of the methods of landscape characterization in the spatial planning concept.
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Shen, Jing, and Rung-Jiun Chou. "Cultural Landscape Development Integrated with Rural Revitalization: A Case Study of Songkou Ancient Town." Land 10, no. 4 (April 13, 2021): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10040406.
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As a form of World Heritage, cultural landscapes have evolved linked with production systems and living space and have become an important topic of rural studies worldwide. This paper attempts to examine the development experiences of local revitalization combined with the cultural landscape in Songkou ancient town, China. Firstly, the rural livelihood-based landscape characteristics of mixing natural and man-made environments are the resources of cultural landscape development. Secondly, community action forms the cultural landscape through a spatial identification process involving place, identity, and heritage. Thirdly, “experience grafting” is a coordinated action for industrial development that has allowed the experience of community revitalization in Taiwan to make an effective contribution to the cultural landscape development of Songkou ancient town. The main findings are as follows: (1) The close connection between man and nature is confirmed from the perspective of landscape cognition and provides farmers with a means of earning a living. Hence, agricultural activities meet the principles of sustainable and organic agriculture by using natural resources responsibly. (2) By considering ecological orchards as cultural landscapes, community actions promote a consensus of local values and an effective way of making a livelihood.
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Eliasson, Ingegärd, Susanne Fredholm, Igor Knez, Eva Gustavsson, and Jon Weller. "Cultural Values of Landscapes in the Practical Work of Biosphere Reserves." Land 12, no. 3 (February 28, 2023): 587. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12030587.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the landscape’s cultural values in the practical work of biosphere reserves and to identify what opportunities there are to increase awareness and knowledge about these values. The paper draws upon data collected in a Swedish biosphere reserve, including a survey of residents, interviews with public officials involved in cultural heritage management, and an analysis of documents produced by the Biosphere Reserve Association. Residents showed a broad knowledge about the landscape’s cultural values, and they linked immaterial heritage to material objects. The residents’ strong identity and pride in relation to the landscape were confirmed by the officials, who argued that it is the deep layers of history and the cultural diversity of the landscape that make the biosphere reserve attractive. However, concepts related to the landscape’s cultural values were barely touched upon in the documents analysed; the landscape’s cultural values were presented as a background—as an abstract value. The findings reveal several unexplored opportunities and practical implications to increase awareness and knowledge of the landscape’s cultural values. Suggested actions include definition of goals, articulation and use of concepts, inventories of actors, increased collaboration, and use of residents’ knowledge. Cultural values of landscapes are often neglected in the practical work of biosphere reserves, despite the social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development being an important component of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. This research indicates several ways of bridging this gap between theory and practice.
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Xu, Wen Ting, and Jian Qun Lin. "Study on Cultural Landscape and its Research Path of Cultural Geography: A Case Study of Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Landscape." Applied Mechanics and Materials 409-410 (September 2013): 767–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.409-410.767.
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The based on research of complexity of cultural landscape and the present situation of China's cultural landscape protection, this paper redefines the methods of cultural landscape, from the perspective of new culture geography's academic claims. It also analyzes the three cultural landscape research entrances: time and spatial process, race identity and the relationship concept of human and land, and landscape as the veil. Taking Tibetan Buddhist cultural landscape as research object, this paper proposes the research path. Firstly, the basic research of cultural landscape dominated by the cultural turn could guide landscape texts reading. Secondly, from the cultural landscape change analysis, we could find the forces of cultural landscape. At last, it puts forward Multiple Integrity to guide the practice of cultural landscape protection and development.
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Husukić, Erna, and Emina Zejnilović. "Re-conceptualizing Common Ground of the Cultural Landscape." Prostor 26, no. 2 (56) (December 21, 2018): 268–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31522/p.26.2(56).5.
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This paper discusses the complex processes and practices of global flows within the dynamic nature of European cultural landscapes in a contemporary context. It examines the role of new technologies, recent demographic fluctuations and increasing interconnectedness in cultural landscape reconfiguration. This paper represents an attempt to encourage a shift in thinking on existing environmental resources and sustainable landscape practices, and to question alternative approaches that are sensitive to the cultural interchange process. Substantively, complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities is addressed in the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Hedquist, Saul L., Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Wesley Bernardini, T. J. Ferguson, Peter M. Whiteley, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma. "Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation." International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 6, no. 1 (January 2015): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2015010103.
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For the Hopi people, named places on the landscape localize, commemorate, and transmit traditional knowledge within a spatial context used to reference and explain Hopi history and culture—geographic information the Hopi Tribe seeks to preserve. This paper discusses the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office's use of geospatial technologies during recent collaborative efforts to document important places and associated cultural information. It considers how GIS and other geospatial technologies have been used to produce maps and digital imagery in a manner guided by traditional landscape perspectives and native epistemologies. Mapping Hopi lands provides many benefits, foremost being the preservation of place-related knowledge for future generations of Hopis. Geospatial technologies also facilitate Hopi efforts of heritage management by providing a medium that effectively demonstrates use of traditional landscapes to non-Hopi audiences.
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Chen, Jiquan, Hogeun Park, Peilei Fan, Li Tian, Zutao Ouyang, and Raffaele Lafortezza. "Cultural Landmarks and Urban Landscapes in Three Contrasting Societies." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 13, 2021): 4295. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084295.
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Cultural heritage sites and landscapes are intuitively connected in urban systems. Based on available databases of cultural landmarks, we selected three pairs of cities that are currently dominated by three contrasting religions (Catholic, Buddhist and emerging culture) to compare the long-term changes in cultural landmarks, to quantify their spatial distribution in the current landscape, and to examine the potential influences these landmarks have on landscapes. The landmark database and landscapes were constructed from archived maps, satellite imagery and the UNESCO heritage sites for Barcelona, Bari, Beijing, Vientiane, Shenzhen, and Ulaanbaatar. Roads in Asian cities are mostly constructed in alignment with the four cardinal directions, forming a checkerboard-type landscape, whereas Bari and Barcelona in Europe have examples of roads radiating from major cultural landmarks. We found clear differences in the number of landmarks and surrounding landscape in these cities, supporting our hypothesis that current urban landscapes have been influenced similarly by cultural landmarks, although substantial differences exist among cities. Negative relationships between the number of cultural landmarks and major cover types were found, except with agricultural lands. Clearly, cultural landmarks need to be treated as “natural features” and considered as reference points in urban planning. Major efforts are needed to construct a global database before an overarching conclusion can be made for global cities.