The conservation of cultural landscapes / edited by Mauro Agnoletti.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2006.
Description
xix, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

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    Summary note
    This book, which contains 18 chapters, presents a range of different methods developed to analyse, restore and manage cultural landscapes, and reports a number of case studies from Europe and North America. This book will be of great interest to a wide range of readers involved in the study, planning and management of landscape resources, in rural and forest, periurban and protected areas.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : Framing the issue : a trans-disciplinary reflection on cultural landscapes / M. Agnoletti
    • The development of a historical and cultural evaluation approach in landscape assessment : the dynamic of Tuscan landscape between 1832 and 2004 / M. Agnoletti
    • Cultural landscapes in northern forests : time, space and affiliation to the land / L. Östlund and I. Bergman
    • Energy balance and land use : the making of an agrarian landscape from the vantage point of social metabolism (the Catalan Vallès County in 1860/70) / E. Tello, R. Garrabou and X. Cussó
    • Earth observation techniques and geographic information systems as tools for assessing land use/cover changes in a landscape context / G. Chirici, P. Corona and M. Köhl
    • The project for the rural landscape park in Moscheta (Tuscany, Italy) / M. Agnoletti, V. Marinai and S. Paoletti
    • Long-term vegetation dynamics in Southern Scandinavia and their use in managing landscapes for biodiversity / R.H.W. Bradshaw and G.E. Hannon
    • Mountain landscape, pastoral management and traditional practices in the Northern Pyrenees (France) / J.P. Métailié
    • Maintaining cultural and natural biodiversity in Europe's economic centre and periphery / P. Angelstam
    • Rethinking traditional preservation approaches for managing a forested cultural landscape : the case of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park's Mount Tom forest / R. Diamant, C. Marts and N. Mitchell
    • Working forest landscapes : two case studies from North Carolina / G.B. Blank
    • Restoration in the American national forests : ecological processes and cultural landscapes / N. Langston
    • Land-use and landscape histories : the role of history in current environmental decisions / S. Anderson
    • Cultural landscape management in Europe and Germany / S. Weizenegger and W. Schenk
    • The restoration of forest landscapes through farmland afforestation measures in Spain / C. Montiel Molina
    • Historic landscape restoration : case studies of site recovery in post-industrial South Yorkshire, England / I.D. Rotherham
    • Comparative international research on agricultural land-use history and forest management practices : the Tuscan estate of Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park / G. Latz
    • Shaping the landscape : long-term effects of the historical controversy about the Viennese forest ("Wienerwald") / E. Johann
    • Recovery and valorization of a historical fruit orchard : the Kolymbetra in the Temple Valley, Sicily / G. Barbera [and others].
    ISBN
    • 1845930746 ((alk. paper))
    • 9781845930745 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2006006978
    OCLC
    64688344
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