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Journal articles on the topic "Landscape and nature"
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Brusak, Vitaliy, and Kateryna Moskalyuk. "The landscape structure of the nature reserve “Medobory”." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography, no. 50 (December 28, 2016): 67–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2016.50.8678.
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Tovtry is a complex of fossil reef Miocene buildings that creates one of the most picturesque scenery of the surrounding plains of Podillya region. Tovtry zone consists of main ridge (the late Baden barrier reef), isolated Tovtry hills (the late Baden bioherms, located east of the ridge), isolated tovtry (the early Sarmat bioherms, located west of the main ridge), the territories of the former channels, lagoons and passes between certain reef masses, the part of which is occupied with the modern rivers. These geological and geomorphological elements are the basis of the definition of Podillian Tovtry landscapes areas, and their combination is the basis of the individual landscapes. The great contribution to the study of Tovtry landscapes was made by K. Herenchuk (1949, 1979, 1980), who identified the main types of localities and individual landscapes. In addition to his distinguished achievements, the researches done by M. Chyzhov (1963), T. Kovalyshyn and I. Kaplun (1998), P. Shtoyko (2000), K. Moskalyuk (2011) and others could be mentioned. In Tovtry there are four landscapes: Mylno, Zbarazh, Medobory (Krasna) and Tovtry (Kamianets-Podilskyi). Natural Reserve “Medobory” (9 516.7 hectares) is located in the central part of Tovtry, mainly in Medobory landscape. The landscape map of nature reserve, covering the surrounding area, at a scale of 1: 25,000 has been done. Six landscaped areas and more than 70 kinds of tracts have been identified. The largest area is the area of elongated summit plains of main Tovtry ridge rocky hills, covered by beech hornbeam-oak forests on humus-carbonate soils. The territory with the buried reef formations, overlained by loess-like loams, with hornbeam-oak forests on humus-carbonate soils in combination with grey forest soils occupies large area. The area of grouped and isolated side tovtry, covered by rock and meadow-steppe vegetation, shrubs on humus-carbonate soils are fragmentary represented in the natural reserve. Outside the territory of natural reserve, there are areas of the extensive plains with chernozems. They were covered by meadow vegetation in the past and now they are the agricultural lands. Some areas of the reserve are covered by wavy interfluves of Husiatyn and Lanivtsi landscape, which are typical for stratal-tiered landscapes of Podillya. Wavy watersheds, composed of thick strata of loess loam, are mainly covered by hornbeam forests in place of oak on grey forest soils and podzolic chernozem. Along Zbruch and Gnyla the area of narrow river valleys with wide floodplains and low terraces fragments are very common. Floodplain is covered by grass-forb meadows, with alder and osier bed centres on meadow and meadow soils. The regional and local features of the landscape structure of the reserve have been defined. Enough representation of the main types of Tovtry areas, their altitude differentiation (landscape layering) and monolithic areas of Tovtry main ridge are the most important. Key words: Podillian Tovtry, main ridge, side tovtry hills, nature reserve “Medobory”, area of landscape.
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Lawder, Rebecca. ""Erotic Nature"." Athanor 37 (December 3, 2019): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.33009/fsu_athanor116675.
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To decode John Dunkley’s dark and sexual landscape is also to reveal a decolonial message in his broader works. Dunkley humanizes nature through both masculinizing phallic and feminizing yonic symbolism as an emancipatory tactic, thereby reflecting a culturally nuanced relationship between people and landscape. Dunkley subverts the expected in Caribbean painting, especially for foreign consumers. By bringing nature to life, his paintings offer subversive anti-colonial themes, too, waiting for decipherment. This paper will examine Dunkley’s use of erotic imagery, arguing that the painter’s sexual landscapes, through layered poetics and symbolism, ultimately served to challenge every day oppressions in colonial Jamaica.
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Derringh, Frank W. "Nature and Landscape." Environmental Ethics 31, no. 4 (2009): 435–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200931446.
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Mestanza-Ramón, Carlos, José Luis Jiménez-Caballero, Mónica Izurieta-Castelo, Diana Carpio Álvarez, and Carolina Moran Tubon. "IMPORTANCE OF THE LANDSCAPE IN NATURE TOURISM." Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University 57, no. 6 (December 30, 2022): 873–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35741/issn.0258-2724.57.6.75.
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Landscape is a fundamental element in tourism and its promotion. Generally, the importance of a landscape in the processes of tourism development and its sustainability is unknown. In this sense, this study describes the evolution of the concept of tourism, analyzes the relationship between tourism and landscape, its valorization and landscape stereotypes. To respond to these objectives, a bibliographic review was carried out in high impact and regional scientific databases. As a result, the importance of the landscape for tourism, its valorization and integral development is transversally detailed. Finally, the different landscapes and their elements must be managed in a responsible and sustainable way where environmental, social and economic aspects are valued.
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Lakovskis, Pēteris, and Linda Ieviņa. "MANAGEMENT OF LANDSCAPES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF NATURE PROTECTION." SOCIETY. TECHNOLOGY. SOLUTIONS. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (April 8, 2022): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35363/via.sts.2022.92.
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INTRODUCTION
In Latvia, the most important landscape areas and sites have historically been included in various categories of specially protected nature territories (SPNT). This approach is also established in the regulatory framework. According to the law “On Specially Protected Nature Territories”, the common goal of protected territories is to include the protection and conservation of unique, beautiful and Latvian-characteristic landscapes. However, only half of the eight identified categories of protected territories – national parks, biosphere reserve, nature parks and protected landscape areas – take landscape-related aspects into consideration. Practically all of these specially protected nature areas were also included in the network of Natura 2000 sites, the main purpose of which is to ensure the protection of protected biotopes and specially protected species habitats. To assess issues of whether nature conservation creates synergies with landscape management and to what extent, we performed quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The calculation uses data from the European Environment Agency's NATURA 2000 database for these areas – (SPNT area) and biotopes (the area of protected habitats). For the map display of the proportion of specially protected nature areas and the included protected biotopes, ArcGIS mapping software was used. The spatial data layers on SPNT’s are derived from the nature data management system OZOLS. Likewise, an analysis of the long-term protection targets of SPNT’s has been carried out by summarising the keywords therein. The descriptive words are displayed with text visualisation tools that illustrate the words according to their frequency of mention.
RESULTS
The proportion of protected biotopes is determined for all 55 landscape-related SPNT’s in line with the law “On Specially Protected Nature Territories” (4 national parks, 42 nature parks, and 9 protected landscape areas). The average proportion of protected biotopes in the landscape-related SPNT’s is 21%; however, its range is very wide – from 5% to 98%. When assessing the proportion of protected biotopes by SPNT category, there are no significant differences between nature parks, national parks and protected landscape areas – the proportion of protected biotopes varies from 20% in nature parks to 23% in protected landscape areas. The most frequently mentioned descriptive word in the long-term protection targets of SPNT’s is biotope protection, while in one fifth of the considered SPNT’s, the long-term protection targets don’t even include landscape-related aspects.
DISCUSSION
The study results revealed the different approach to defining SPNT’s in Latvia, the individual non-conformities in relation to the regulatory framework, as well as a number of challenges to landscape management. The analysis of nature conservation targets shows that the main emphasis is on the protection of habitats and species; however, landscape-related aspects are also defined generally. Characteristics such as socio-economic development, recreation, cultural and historical heritage, landscape values, tourism, nature education are mentioned. In the context of landscapes, the long-term goals most often mention cultural and historical heritage, landscape conservation, landscape structure and aesthetic value; however, these goals are general, mostly only detecting that the site has a landscape value and expressing the need to preserve it. The performed analysis of the targets and the relatively small proportion of biotopes in the Natura 2000 areas indicate that the ecological network in Latvia should be improved, not only by specifying the protected areas, but also by a more targeted separation of conditions for nature protection and for landscape management in the regulatory framework. In particular, in view of the fact that landscape management in Latvia is primarily implemented through spatial planning.
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Lakovskis, Pēteris, and Linda Ieviņa. "MANAGEMENT OF LANDSCAPES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF NATURE PROTECTION." SOCIETY. TECHNOLOGY. SOLUTIONS. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (April 8, 2022): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35363/via.sts.2022.92.
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INTRODUCTION
In Latvia, the most important landscape areas and sites have historically been included in various categories of specially protected nature territories (SPNT). This approach is also established in the regulatory framework. According to the law “On Specially Protected Nature Territories”, the common goal of protected territories is to include the protection and conservation of unique, beautiful and Latvian-characteristic landscapes. However, only half of the eight identified categories of protected territories – national parks, biosphere reserve, nature parks and protected landscape areas – take landscape-related aspects into consideration. Practically all of these specially protected nature areas were also included in the network of Natura 2000 sites, the main purpose of which is to ensure the protection of protected biotopes and specially protected species habitats. To assess issues of whether nature conservation creates synergies with landscape management and to what extent, we performed quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The calculation uses data from the European Environment Agency's NATURA 2000 database for these areas – (SPNT area) and biotopes (the area of protected habitats). For the map display of the proportion of specially protected nature areas and the included protected biotopes, ArcGIS mapping software was used. The spatial data layers on SPNT’s are derived from the nature data management system OZOLS. Likewise, an analysis of the long-term protection targets of SPNT’s has been carried out by summarising the keywords therein. The descriptive words are displayed with text visualisation tools that illustrate the words according to their frequency of mention.
RESULTS
The proportion of protected biotopes is determined for all 55 landscape-related SPNT’s in line with the law “On Specially Protected Nature Territories” (4 national parks, 42 nature parks, and 9 protected landscape areas). The average proportion of protected biotopes in the landscape-related SPNT’s is 21%; however, its range is very wide – from 5% to 98%. When assessing the proportion of protected biotopes by SPNT category, there are no significant differences between nature parks, national parks and protected landscape areas – the proportion of protected biotopes varies from 20% in nature parks to 23% in protected landscape areas. The most frequently mentioned descriptive word in the long-term protection targets of SPNT’s is biotope protection, while in one fifth of the considered SPNT’s, the long-term protection targets don’t even include landscape-related aspects.
DISCUSSION
The study results revealed the different approach to defining SPNT’s in Latvia, the individual non-conformities in relation to the regulatory framework, as well as a number of challenges to landscape management. The analysis of nature conservation targets shows that the main emphasis is on the protection of habitats and species; however, landscape-related aspects are also defined generally. Characteristics such as socio-economic development, recreation, cultural and historical heritage, landscape values, tourism, nature education are mentioned. In the context of landscapes, the long-term goals most often mention cultural and historical heritage, landscape conservation, landscape structure and aesthetic value; however, these goals are general, mostly only detecting that the site has a landscape value and expressing the need to preserve it. The performed analysis of the targets and the relatively small proportion of biotopes in the Natura 2000 areas indicate that the ecological network in Latvia should be improved, not only by specifying the protected areas, but also by a more targeted separation of conditions for nature protection and for landscape management in the regulatory framework. In particular, in view of the fact that landscape management in Latvia is primarily implemented through spatial planning.
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Serova, Olga, Larisa Timofeeva, Nikolai Reshin, and Dmitry Abramov. "DYNAMIC NATURE OF HYDROLOGICAL SIMILARITY." ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGIES. RESOURCES. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference 1 (June 20, 2019): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/etr2019vol1.4083.
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Nowadays, there is a growing interest in understanding how water bodies and their catchments react to environment, landscape and climate change. Runoff change is an integral indicator of climate and landscape changes. Similar landscapes form a similar hydrological catchment response to precipitation. The algorithm for identification of homogeneous groups of catchments (in terms of hydrometeorology) has been developed and tested. The 26 catchments studied are situated in the south-eastern part of the Baltic Sea Basin. Observational data from 1986 to 2016 were used for cluster analysis. Catchments clustering over three consecutive ten-year periods has shown some variability in the clusters content due to changes in the hydrological response of the study catchments. The results obtained were analyzed based on both hydrogrometeorological and landscape characteristics.
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Otok, Stanisław. "Nature of Social Landscape." Miscellanea Geographica 3, no. 1 (March 1, 1988): 239–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-1988-030129.
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Molnar, Peter. "Nature, nurture and landscape." Nature 426, no. 6967 (December 2003): 612–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/426612a.
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Engler, Mira. "Waste Landscapes: Permissible Metaphors in Landscape Architecture." Landscape Journal 14, no. 1 (1995): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/lj.14.1.11.
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von, Wiedersperg Carolina Sophie. "Kyoto art in nature habitat /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/von_wiedersperg/von_WiederspergC0509.pdf.
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The purpose of this thesis is to find architectural solutions which apply the theoretical findings centered around the biophilia hypothesis. The principles resulting from this investigation should help architecture to soften the separated conditions of the natural and the man-made environment. The application of these principles will then result in the design development of an Art in Nature Habitat in Kyoto, Japan.
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Yerolymbos, Yiorgis. "Third nature : representing the human-altered landscape." Thesis, University of Derby, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443575.
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Rude, Warno P. "Urban landscape unfolding the landscape /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132007-171421.
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Crossley, Matthew James. "Fitness landscape-based analysis of nature-inspired algorithms." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/47/.
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As the number of nature-inspired algorithms increases so does the need to characterise these algorithms. A rigorous process to characterise algorithms helps practitioners decide which algorithms may offer a good fit for their given problem. One approach is to relate the characteristics of a problem's associated fitness landscape with the performance of an algorithm. The aim of this thesis is to capitalise on the notion of fitness landscape characteristics as a technique for analysing algorithm performance, and to provide a novel algorithm- and problem-independent methodology that can be used to present the strengths and weaknesses of an algorithm. The methodology was tested by developing a portfolio of six nature-inspired algorithms commonly used to solve continuous optimisation problems. This portfolio includes the performance of these algorithms with parameters both “out of the box" and after they have been tuned using an automated tuning technique. Each of the algorithms shows a different “resilience" profile to the landscape characteristics, and responds differently to the tuning process. In order to provide a more practical way to utilise the portfolio an automated “ranking" methodology based on two machine learning techniques was developed. Using estimates of the fitness landscape characteristics on benchmark problems, the best algorithm to use is estimated, and compared with the actual performance of each algorithm. While results show that predicting algorithm performance is difficult, the results are promising, and show that this is an area worth exploring further. This methodology has significant advantages over the current practice of demonstrating novel algorithm performance on benchmark problems, most importantly offering a practical, generalised overview of the algorithm to a potential practitioner. Choosing to use a technique such as the one demonstrated here when presenting a novel algorithm could greatly ease the problem of algorithm selection.
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Burmeister, Marina. "Reconnecting man with nature : post industrial landscape development." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45272.
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Industries became a permanent addition to
cities in the 18th century, transforming the
natural landscape and influencing the people
directly dependant on it, this enforces to the
consumer culture we experience every day.
This industrial development all over the
world has disregarded apparent and non-apparent
relationships that humans have within
nature, resulting in the connection between
humans and nature to become estranged,
leaving humankind searching for identity and
purpose.
This study investigates the connection between
humans and nature through adapting
the post-industrial landscape, to ultimately
establish an identity of place for human
well-being.
The study proposes that apparent and
non-apparent relationships between humans
and nature can be introduced in the post-industrial
landscape through the concepts of
ecosystem services and commemorative
design. By commemorating the natural
landscape, memories and experiences
will create an appreciation for the natural
landscape, strengthening the connection
between humans and nature. Different
ecosystem services are generated by the
design to establish ecological and human
well-being.
The sketch plan design intervention proposes
that, these apparent and non-apparent relationships
between humans and nature are
revealed and celebrated. The non-apparent
relationships are transformed into apparent
design features within the landscape to make
visitors aware of their unity with nature and
the services it provides them with. The
design proposal creates opportunities for
interaction, education and appreciation by
means of food gardens, utility gardens,
biodiversity gardens and experiments of
spontaneous succession.
The purpose of these interventions is to
restore the post-industrial landscape while
creating a strong cultural connection to
heritage within industries and nature to
reconnect humankind with their own identity
as part of nature.Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Lambert, Raymond John. "Landscape existing with art : a study of ideas and style in John Constable's landscapes." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313592.
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Santos, Lisa Margarida Câmara. "Paisagens terapêuticas. Principios de desenho e tipos de jardins terapêuticos." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11113.
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Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe following work focus on the importance of nature as a beneficial resource improving the patient’s welfare in health facilities. This amelioration is felt not only in patients but also benefits the employees of these facilities and the patient’s visits. For better understanding, this dissertation starts with a historical approach about therapeutic gardens and its evolution over time, making references and relations to some examples in Portugal. Secondly this work focuses on the restorative power of nature on human health, followed by some examples and case studies. It’s also referenced an approach to philosophical foundations, theories, tools and elements that have some sort of impact on health. The approach to these themes will help us understand our attraction to nature and the benefits of its presence in comparison with urban environment. This will provide the necessary groundwork for the development of a project to an outdoor space to health facility, as well as adopting the features and elements that make an outdoor space more harmonious and healthy, not only for patients but also for employees or visitors, these elements will be presented in chapter IV. After it’s presented the characteristic and elements afore mentioned and some general principals of drawing and design for health facilities which can be applied to health facilities with multiple specialities, as for health facilities that are intended only for a specific treatment with only a medical speciality. To finish the main principles that are applied in the design and conception of the therapeutic gardens, which can be extensive landscaped grounds, a courtyard, a front porch, etc. These methods are applied in order to enhance, not only our life quality but also the social interactions, the environment and the economy
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Lau, Ka-po, and 劉家寶. "The spirit of nature: integrate people to healing landscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47312506.
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Hong Kong is facing an aging population problem in the coming years. This situation is especially appearing in the New Town such as Tseung Kwan O and Sha Tin. Therefore, healthcare facilities or healing landscape is an important design issue in the future. In the thesis, Haven of Hope Hospital is chosen to demonstrate the healing landscape design. It is a good site to provide an example of healing landscape for reference in the future.
Haven of Hope Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Tseung Kwan O. It provides several different services in the local community such as Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Care, Palliative Care and infirmary. These types of the service are very close to the quality of the environment. Therefore, healing landscape plays an important role in this type of hospital. At the same time, Tseung Kwan O is a new town, the main development is planning to provide more residential units now. That’s why, healthcare facilities are one of the important things for development in the future to fulfill the large amount of people. In the study, it shows that healing landscape is a medium for people to integrate the natural environment. It is a process to provide different level of healing effect to people such as stress reduction, relieving the pain and self mediation.
In the thesis, relationship among the original hospital landscape, the patient character, and the types of building are found to figure out what healing landscape have to be designed. Some design concepts and theories provide suggestions and guidelines on designing the garden and choosing the plants. Some therapeutic programs can be considered to organize in the healing landscape so as to bring out the healing effect. Truthfully, the main purpose is to create a nice environment to upgrade the quality of life and overall well-being of people.published_or_final_version
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Hedley, Phillippa. "A new nature for exiled territories : the archaeology of beauty." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16352.
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Includes bibliographical references.A thing of beauty is defined by the way one apprehends it, by the reaction of and the experience it evokes in the participant. Two modes of approaching beauty are explored: the first is that of beauty being fundamental to a particular form, holding on to past idealized images; or secondly, that beauty is associated with an emotional experience or response, bound up with the senses. Integral to the design exploration of this preconception of beauty, is Ingold's dwelling perspective, that landscape is seen as an enduring record of what has been and what is left behind (1993: 59), our experiences become linked to the temporality of place. Or, alternately, our "perceptions of landscapes, influenced by the metaphors associated therewith (Spirn 1998: 24), greatly affect the way that they are experienced" (Prinsloo, 2012 a : 37), becoming the archaeology of experience. In exploring the concept of the perception of beauty in derelict quarry landscapes; the damaged site and geology is eroded, succumbing to the temporal processes. This change, the inducing of experience, is felt not only in the dramatic difference of the quarry face to that of the tenacity of the vegetation, but also a richer peculiarity : the original industrial function of place is re-imagined as a medium for biodiversity. This re-imagining of site evolves into that of 'wunderkammer' or wonder room, in which the differences between the wonders of nature and the artefacts of man can be juxtaposed. The concept of 'wunderkammer' provides a platform where ideas can be tested, making the place more capable of appearing; thus, the perception of beauty unfolds in the landscape becoming something in which we explore. The way in which the quarry retains itself, between the decay and revitalization, as a unique place is that it is an alternative to the current reality elsewhere.
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Murteira, Manuela de Jesus Baptista da Fonseca. "Alentejo feel nature." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23683.
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O trabalho de projeto que se propõe apresentar prende-se com a aplicação prática de uma oportunidade lançada pela Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Alentejo, no sentido de valorizar, requalificar e potenciar antigas azinhagas, caminhos rurais e calçadas seculares localizadas, preferencialmente, em áreas protegidas ou integradas na Rede Natura 2000, existentes no distrito de Portalegre e o seu aproveitamento para rotas turísticas, de fruição e de recreio.
A implementação do projeto supramunicipal Alentejo “Feel Nature” envolveu os quinze municípios do distrito de Portalegre e contribuiu para infraestruturar esta região com um conjunto de rotas pedestres de apoio a um turismo de nicho, assente no produto “Walking”.
A paisagem, as vilas, as cidades, as gentes, os produtos endógenos e os eventos contribuem, hoje, para o enriquecimento do projeto e da marca Alentejo “Feel Nature”, consolidada e reconhecida por distintas entidades nacionais e estrangeiras.
De facto, esta rede de percursos pedestres, alinhada com o tema Natureza, percorre espaços de serra e caminhos na peneplanície, cruza cursos de água por poldras ou segue na margem de albufeiras, passa por carvalhais, soutos, montados de azinheiras e sobreiros, pastagens naturais, estepes cerealíferas, hortas, pequenas quintas e grandes herdades.
O projeto Alentejo “Feel Nature”, concretizou-se numa infraestrutura pública, de recreio ativo e desportivo, assim como numa marca que promove e valoriza a região e a paisagem, no mercado nacional e internacional; Abstract:
The project work that we intend to present relates to the practical application of an opportunity launched by the Intermunicipal Community of Alto Alentejo, in the sense of valorizing, re-qualifying and strengthening old paths, rural roads and secular sidewalks, preferably located in areas protected or integrated in the Natura 2000 network, existing in the district of Portalegre and its use, for tourist routes, enjoyment and recreation.
The implementation of the supramunicipal project Alentejo Feel Nature, involved the fifteen municipalities of the district of Portalegre and contributed to the infrastructure of this region with a set of pedestrian routes to support a niche tourism, based on the product Walking. The landscape, villages, towns, people, endogenous products and events contribute to the enrichment of the project and the Alentejo Feel Nature brand, consolidated and recognized by different national and foreign entities.
In fact, this network of pedestrian paths, aligned with the theme Nature, travels through mountain ranges and paths in the peneplain, crosses water courses by poldras or follows on the bank of reservoirs, passes through oaks, groves, holm oaks and cork oaks, pastures cereals, orchards, small farms and large estates. The Alentejo Feel Nature project was implemented in a public infrastructure, active recreation and sports, as well as a brand that promotes and values the region and the landscape in the national and international market.
Books on the topic "Landscape and nature"
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Landscape and nature photography. London: Philip, 1986.
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Art Gallery of South Australia, ed. Making nature: Masters of European landscape art. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009.
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The nature of landscape: A personal quest. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001.
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1913-, Holme Bryan, ed. Landscape. Boston: Hill, 1987.
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Crandell, Gina. Nature pictorialized: "the view" in landscape history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
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Dewi, Roberts, ed. Landscape and nature: An anthology. Llanrwst: Carreg Gwalch, 2004.
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Rochelle, Johnson, and Patterson Daniel 1953-, eds. Essays on nature and landscape. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
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Gambino, Roberto, and Attilia Peano, eds. Nature Policies and Landscape Policies. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05410-0.
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Matless, David. In the Nature of Landscape. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118295687.
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Stainton, Lindsay. Nature into art: English landscape watercolours. London: British Museum Press in association with the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1991.
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Baker, Kate. "Taming nature." In Captured Landscape, 85–116. Second edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. |: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315563343-4.
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Riemenschneider, Dieter. "Nature and landscape." In Reading India in a Transnational Era, 171–80. London: Routledge India, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003195801-16.
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Storm, Anna. "Industrial Nature." In Post-Industrial Landscape Scars, 101–26. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137025999_5.
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Franke, Patrick, and Nick Christopher. "Engineering nature." In Innovations in Landscape Architecture, 189–204. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315716336-13.
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Luck, Gary W. "Demographic Change and Rural Nature." In Landscape Series, 101–23. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9654-8_5.
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Werle, Kerstin J. S. "Landscape as Cultivated Nature." In Landscape of Peace, 84–88. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05832-6_15.
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Clark, Indy. "Landscape, Nature, and Work." In Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral, 59–100. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137505026_3.
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Olwig, Kenneth. "The nature of GothicJutland." In Nature's Ideological Landscape, 11–22. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429352126-2.
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Fricker, Pia. "Computing with Nature." In Designing Landscape Architectural Education, 229–38. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003145905-25.
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Hupke, Klaus-Dieter. "Geological Landscape Objects in Nature Conservation." In Nature Conservation, 233–36. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66159-8_22.
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E.V., Malaya, and Vavulin K.E. "THE PHENOMENON OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: ECOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC ANALYSIS." In INTERNATIONAL FORUM "YOUTH IN THE AGRIBUSINESS". DSTU-Print, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/young.2022.50-53.
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What are natural landscapes? Are they "out there somewhere", separate from people, or are they products of our own perception? The problematic field of research is determined by contradictions: the consideration of the artistic national vision of the natural landscape, the modern vision of the architectural landscape of Russian cities, on the one hand, and the development of ecology as a self-conscious science. "Landscape" originally meant people living inside and forming a capricious nature, but quickly turned into a "natural landscape" reflecting the balance of nature viewed from the outside. Despite repeated scientific demonstrations of the lack of ecological balance now or in the past, environmentalists stubbornly cling to the "romantic" concept of a landscape with nature in balance. In order to rethink and reconfigure ecology and environmental management to better reflect the modern understanding of how nature, including humans, "works", modern architects, urbanists, landscape designers must interact with environmentalists, environmental scientists, and the general public to redefine the nature of nature.
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Chernetskaya, E. I., and A. G. Lukyanchuk. "LANDSCAPE THERAPY AS A MODERN METHOD OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN." In SAKHAROV READINGS 2021: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE XXI CENTURY. International Sakharov Environmental Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46646/sakh-2021-1-18-21.
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Landscape therapy is a method of spa therapy aimed at improving the health of the body by the influence of the beauty of nature, landscapes and therapeutic walks. Scientific studies show that unity with nature helps to reduce the level of anxiety, relieve stress, and even reduce high blood pressure. Contemplation of the beauty of nature stimulates the vitality and calms the nervous system, provides positive emotions. The article provides an overview of the use of medical gardens to improve the health of people in the countries of Europe and the East. The necessity of landscape therapy on the territory of Belarus is also justified.
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Dagenais, D. "Designing with nature in landscape architecture." In DESIGN AND NATURE 2008. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/dn080221.
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Nikezic, A., and N. Jankovic. "Kosutnjak: landscape as a learning system." In DESIGN AND NATURE 2012. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/dn120061.
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Pukowiec-Kurda, Katarzyna, and Urszula Myga-Piatek. "Application of New Methods of Environment Analysis and Assessment in Landscape Audits – Case Studies of Urban Areas Like Czestochowa, Poland." In Environmental Engineering. VGTU Technika, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.116.
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Following the 2000 European Landscape Convention, a new act strengthening landscape protection instruments has been in force since 2015. It sets forth legal aspects of landscape shaping (Dziennik Ustaw 2015, poz. 774) and introduces landscape audits at the province level. A landscape audit consists in identification and characterization of selected landscapes, assessment of their value, selection of so-called priority landscapes and identification of threats for preservation of their value. An audit complies with GIS standards. Analyses use source materials, i.e. digital maps of physical-geographical mesoregions, current topographic maps of digital resources of cartographic databases, latest orthophotomaps and DTMs, maps of potential vegetation, geobotanic regionalization, historic-cultural regionalization and natural landscape types, documentation of historical and cultural values and related complementary resources. A special new methodology (Solon et al. 2014), developed for auditing, was tested in 2015 in an urban area (Myga-Piatek et al. 2015). Landscapes are characterized by determining their analytic (natural and cultural) and synthetic features, with particular focus on the stage of delimitation and identification of landscape units in urban areas. Czestochowa was selected as a case study due to its large natural (karst landscapes of the Czestochowa Upland, numerous forests, nature reserves) and cultural (Saint Mary’s Sanctuary, unique urban architecture) potential. Czestochowa is also a city of former iron ore and mineral resources exploitation, still active industry, dynamic urban sprawl within former farming areas, and dynamically growing tourism. Landscape delimitation and identification distinguished 75 landscape units basing on uniform landscape background (uniform cover and use of the land). Landscape assessment used a new assessment method for anthropogenic transformation of landscape – the indicator describing the correlation between the mean shape index (MSI) and the Shannon diversity index (SHDI) (Pukowiec-Kurda, Sobala 2016). Particular threats and planning suggestions, useful in development of urban areas, were presented for selected priority landscapes.
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Kostovska, S., and St Kostovska. "RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS AS AN ELEMENT OF THE ENCLOSING LANDCAPE." In Man and Nature: Priorities of Modern Research in the Area of Interaction of Nature and Society. LCC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2606.s-n_history_2021_44/208-215.
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The article analysis significant approaches to improving the graphic implementation of maps is carried out. The historical changes in the ways of creating maps and the landscape elements displayed on them, their difference from today's content. This process is natural and historically conditioned and needs constant review in connection with the improvement of technologies and methods of creating maps. It is suggested that cartographic sources serve as invaluable "keepers" of information about the enclosing landscapes.
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Boikova, Elmīra, Lelde Eņģele, Vita Līcīte, and Uvis Suško. "Protected water habitats in the landscape area “Augšdaugava”." In 79th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia. University of Latvia, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/iarb.2021.01.
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The “Augšdaugava” protected landscape area was established already in 1990, but the elaboration of the environment protection plan for this largest landscape area in Latvia is still in progress. The nature park “Daugavas loki” as part of this landscape area was established in 1990 and the nature park already has the protection and management plan (2010–2022). The upper Daugava river valley forms the central axis of the protected landscape area and is included in the Natura 2000 network. The complex of the Daugava River with nine large meanders and small, natural unaltered rivers, crossing the ravines, belongs to the Annex I habitat type 3260. This area is also rich in mineral springs and spring fens. There are about 30 lakes with different eutrophication impacts in the area. The possible threats, nature values, and water ecosystem services are discussed.
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Galkina, T. "PLACE OF THE TEMPLE IN NATURAL LANDSCAPE." In Man and Nature: Priorities of Modern Research in the Area of Interaction of Nature and Society. LCC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2598.s-n_history_2021_44/149-157.
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The article examines the regularities of the location of religious buildings of different religions in different historical epochs in the natural landscape.The importance of the aesthetic attractiveness of the place chosen for the temple, the influence of historical circumstances on the choice of a place for a religious building (the need for protection from enemies, the triumph of the victorious religion, etc., the importance of the harmony of the temple with the environment, with the natural landscape) is emphasized.
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Kupec, Petr, and Anna Petrová. "Regular eco-monitoring of newly opened sandpits - required by nature protection and welcomed by nature." In Public recreation and landscape protection - with environment hand in hand… Mendel University in Brno, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0288.
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Różańska, A. "Nature of the Warm Absorber in AGN." In THE MULTICOLORED LANDSCAPE OF COMPACT OBJECTS AND THEIR EXPLOSIVE ORIGINS. American Institute of Physics, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2774950.
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Dunbar, William, Suneetha M. Subramanian, and Makiko Yanagiya. Recognising and Supporting the Role of Culture in Effective Area-based Conservation. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53326/nrlk9587.
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Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) can achieve positive biodiversity outcomes in a larger area than is covered by protected areas. But this requires OECMs to be better integrated into sustainable production systems in conjunction with protected areas. Good examples of productive social-ecological systems exist. Recognising potential OECMs requires recognising the cultures that make them possible. Recommendations: (i) fully recognise and support the role of culture in fostering interlinked human–nature relationships and nurturing biodiversity in production landscapes and seascapes; (ii) develop sustainable market mechanisms using landscape approaches that promote respect for local cultures and the rights of all stakeholders; (iii) apply good practices for empowering cultures to enhance long-term biodiversity outcomes; (iv) provide innovative incentives including capacity development to encourage local communities to manage their landscapes and seascapes for biodiversity conservation.
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Bourne, E., Jack Milazzo, and Burton Suedel. Realizing multiple benefits in a southeast Louisana urban flood control project through application of Engineering With Nature principles. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/45021.
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The application of Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) principles in urban environments and watersheds within and outside the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is increasing. Extreme rainfall events have triggered the need and development of more sustainable urban infrastructure in urban areas such as New Orleans, Louisiana. This technical note documents a USACE–New Orleans District (MVN) project that successfully applied EWN principles in an urban landscape to reduce flood risk while providing other environmental, social, economic, and engineering benefits to both the community and the environment.
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Langenkamp, Max, and Melissa Flagg. AI Hubs: Europe and CANZUK. Center for Security and Emerging Technology, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51593/20200061.
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U.S. policymakers need to understand the landscape of artificial intelligence talent and investment as AI becomes increasingly important to national and economic security. This knowledge is critical as leaders develop new alliances and work to curb China’s growing influence. As an initial effort, an earlier CSET report, “AI Hubs in the United States,” examined the domestic AI ecosystem by mapping where U.S. AI talent is produced, where it is concentrated, and where AI private equity funding goes. Given the global nature of the AI ecosystem and the importance of international talent flows, this paper looks for the centers of AI talent and investment in regions and countries that are key U.S. partners: Europe and the CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom).
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age. Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v Landscapes and regions: Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change? Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial. Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth. Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs. Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully. Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people. The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
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Atkinson, Dan, and Alex Hale, eds. From Source to Sea: ScARF Marine and Maritime Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.126.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under four headings: 1. From Source to Sea: River systems, from their source to the sea and beyond, should form the focus for research projects, allowing the integration of all archaeological work carried out along their course. Future research should take a holistic view of the marine and maritime historic environment, from inland lakes that feed freshwater river routes, to tidal estuaries and out to the open sea. This view of the landscape/seascape encompasses a very broad range of archaeology and enables connections to be made without the restrictions of geographical or political boundaries. Research strategies, programmes From Source to Sea: ScARF Marine and Maritime Panel Report iii and projects can adopt this approach at multiple levels; from national to site-specific, with the aim of remaining holistic and cross-cutting. 2. Submerged Landscapes: The rising research profile of submerged landscapes has recently been embodied into a European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action; Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf (SPLASHCOS), with exciting proposals for future research. Future work needs to be integrated with wider initiatives such as this on an international scale. Recent projects have begun to demonstrate the research potential for submerged landscapes in and beyond Scotland, as well as the need to collaborate with industrial partners, in order that commercially-created datasets can be accessed and used. More data is required in order to fully model the changing coastline around Scotland and develop predictive models of site survival. Such work is crucial to understanding life in early prehistoric Scotland, and how the earliest communities responded to a changing environment. 3. Marine & Maritime Historic Landscapes: Scotland’s coastal and intertidal zones and maritime hinterland encompass in-shore islands, trans-continental shipping lanes, ports and harbours, and transport infrastructure to intertidal fish-traps, and define understanding and conceptualisation of the liminal zone between the land and the sea. Due to the pervasive nature of the Marine and Maritime historic landscape, a holistic approach should be taken that incorporates evidence from a variety of sources including commercial and research archaeology, local and national societies, off-shore and onshore commercial development; and including studies derived from, but not limited to history, ethnology, cultural studies, folklore and architecture and involving a wide range of recording techniques ranging from photography, laser imaging, and sonar survey through to more orthodox drawn survey and excavation. 4. Collaboration: As is implicit in all the above, multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches are essential in order to ensure the capacity to meet the research challenges of the marine and maritime historic environment. There is a need for collaboration across the heritage sector and beyond, into specific areas of industry, science and the arts. Methods of communication amongst the constituent research individuals, institutions and networks should be developed, and dissemination of research results promoted. The formation of research communities, especially virtual centres of excellence, should be encouraged in order to build capacity.
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Berkowitz, Jacob, Nathan Beane, Kevin Philley, Nia Hurst, and Jacob Jung. An assessment of long-term, multipurpose ecosystem functions and engineering benefits derived from historical dredged sediment beneficial use projects. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41382.
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The beneficial use of dredged materials improves environmental outcomes while maximizing navigation benefits and minimizing costs, in accordance with the principles of the Engineering With Nature® (EWN) initiative. Yet, few studies document the long-term benefits of innovative dredged material management strategies or conduct comprehensive life-cycle analysis because of a combination of (1) short monitoring time frames and (2) the paucity of constructed projects that have reached ecological maturity. In response, we conducted an ecological functional and engineering benefit assessment of six historic (>40 years old) dredged material–supported habitat improvement projects where initial postconstruction beneficial use monitoring data was available. Conditions at natural reference locations were also documented to facilitate a comparison between natural and engineered landscape features. Results indicate the projects examined provide valuable habitat for a variety of species in addition to yielding a number of engineering (for example, shoreline protection) and other (for example, carbon storage) benefits. Our findings also suggest establishment of ecological success criteria should not overemphasize replicating reference conditions but remain focused on achieving specific ecological functions (that is, habitat and biogeochemical cycling) and engineering benefits (that is, storm surge reduction, navigation channel maintenance) achievable through project design and operational management.
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Scotland: The Roman Presence. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.104.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Scotland in the Roman world: Research into Roman Scotland requires an appreciation of the wider frontier and Empire-wide perspectives, and Scottish projects must be integrated into these wider, international debates. The rich data set and chronological control that Scotland has to offer can be used to inform broader understandings of the impact of Rome. Changing worlds: Roman Scotland’s rich data set should be employed to contribute to wider theoretical perspectives on topics such as identity and ethnicity, and how these changed over time. What was the experience of daily life for the various peoples in Roman Scotland and how did interactions between incomers and local communities develop and change over the period in question, and, indeed, at and after its end? Frontier Life: Questions still remain regarding the disposition and chronology of forts and forces, as well as the logistics of sustaining and supplying an army of conquest and occupation. Sites must be viewed as part of a wider, interlocking set of landscapes, and the study of movement over land and by sea incorporated within this. The Antonine Wall provides a continuing focus of research which would benefit from more comparison with frontier structures and regimes in other areas. Multiple landscapes: Roman sites need to be seen in a broader landscape context, ‘looking beyond the fort’ and explored as nested and interlocking landscapes. This will allow exploration of frontier life and the changing worlds of the Roman period. To do justice to this resource requires two elements: o Development-control archaeology should look as standard at the hinterland of forts (up to c.1 km from the ‘core’), as sensitive areas and worthy of evaluation; examples such as Inveresk show the density of activity around such nodes. The interiors of camps should be extensively excavated as standard. o Integrated approaches to military landscapes are required, bringing in where appropriate topographical and aerial survey, LIDAR, geophysics, the use of stray and metal-detected finds, as well as fieldwalking and ultimately, excavation. The Legacy of Rome: How did the longer term influence of the Romans, and their legacy, influence the formation, nature and organisation of the Pictish and other emergent kingdoms?
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Wolfe, S. A., H. B. O'Neill, C. Duchesne, D. Froese, J M Young, and S. V. Kokelj. Ground ice degradation and thermokarst terrain formation in Canada over the past 16 000 years. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/329668.
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Thermokarst results from thawing of excess ground ice in permafrost sediments. Thermokarst processes and landforms are controlled by ground ice type, amount and distribution, as well as the patterns of ground ice loss over time. Recent acceleration of varied thermokarst processes across diverse Canadian permafrost terrains make for a challenging task in predicting landscape-scale thaw trajectories. Using existing ground ice models, we examined the modelled amounts and spatial extent of ground ice loss relative to ground ice maxima in the last ca. 16 ka BP for relict, segregated and wedge ice. We relate observed thermokarst features to the nature of ground ice development and loss in different environments (cold continuous permafrost, discontinuous permafrost, and no current permafrost). In cold, continuous permafrost areas where ground ice loss has been limited over the last 16 ka BP, thermokarst processes include active layer detachments and slumps in segregated and relict ice, gullying and ponding in ice wedge troughs, and the cyclical development of shallow thermokarst ponds in segregated ice. With ground ice loss in discontinuous permafrost, thermokarst processes are wide-ranging. Slumps, subsidence, and collapse of lithalsas, palsas and peat plateaus occur from thawing of segregated ice, thermokarst ponds from melting wedge and segregated ice, and involuted terrain from melting and creep of relict or segregated ice. In former permafrost terrain, evidence of thermokarst includes former ice wedge polygons, collapsed lithalsas, and irregular hummocky terrain. The relations between modelled ground ice loss and observed thermokarst landscapes assist in understanding present-day processes and in predicting future thermokarst landform evolution with a changing climate.
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Phuong, Vu Tan, Nguyen Van Truong, Do Trong Hoan, Hoang Nguyen Viet Hoa, and Nguyen Duy Khanh. Understanding tree-cover transitions, drivers and stakeholders’ perspectives for effective landscape governance: a case study of Chieng Yen Commune, Son La Province, Viet Nam. World Agroforestry, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp21023.pdf.
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Integrated landscape management for sustainable livelihoods and positive environmental outcomes has been desired by many developing countries, especially for mountainous areas where agricultural activities, if not well managed, will likely degrade vulnerable landscapes. This research was an attempt to characterize the landscape in Chieng Yen Commune, Son La Province in Northwest Viet Nam to generate knowledge and understanding of local conditions and to propose a workable governance mechanism to sustainably manage the landscape. ICRAF, together with national partners — Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Soil and Fertilizer Research Institute — and local partners — Son La Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Son La Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Chieng Yen Commune People’s Committee — conducted rapid assessments in the landscape, including land-use mapping, land-use characterization, a household survey and participatory landscape assessment using an ecosystem services framework. We found that the landscape and peoples’ livelihoods are at risk from the continuous degradation of forest and agricultural land, and declining productivity, ecosystem conditions and services. Half of households live below the poverty line with insufficient agricultural production for subsistence. Unsustainable agricultural practices and other livelihood activities are causing more damage to the forest. Meanwhile, existing forest and landscape governance mechanisms are generally not inclusive of local community engagement. Initial recommendations are provided, including further assessment to address current knowledge gaps.
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Sanders, M. E., and H. A. M. Meeuwsen. Basisbestand Natuur en Landschap. Wageningen: Wettelijke Onderzoekstaken Natuur & Milieu, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/507994.
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