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Resilience and the cultural landscape : understanding and managing change in human-shaped environments /
"All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as dis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Note; PART I: CONCEPTUALISING LANDSCAPES AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience; Two views on values and changes of cultural landscapes; Challenges to cultural landscapes; Globalisation of landscapes; Landscapes of agricultural intensification and expansion; Marginalised and abandoned landscapes; Landscapes of urbanisation and land consumption; Landscapes of renewable power.
- Nature conservation landscapesMultifunctional landscapes; Local and international action for landscapes; The cultural landscapes approach; The resilience approach; Prospects for linking landscape and resilience research; Note; References; 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes; Introduction; The changing cultural landscape; Changing perspectives on landscape governance; Landscape change and resilience; Landscapes as resilient social-ecological systems; The pursuit of 'good' landscape resilience; Conclusions; References.
- 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Introduction; The resilience approach to social-ecological systems; The cultural landscape concept; Similarities and differences between the two approaches; Explanation of the similarities between the two approaches; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking; Introduction; The human as conceptualised in cultural landscape thinking.
- Geographic differences in the use of the cultural landscape ideaCultural landscapes in land and heritage management; Cultural landscapes for biodiversity; The human as conceptualised in social-ecological systems and resilience thinking; Relational approaches: contesting cultural landscapes; The ontological challenge; References; 5 System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics; Introduction; The spatial dimensions in social-ecological systems; A spatial landscape approach; The case of Hållnäs; Possible linkages?; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References.
- 6 Resilience thinking versus political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesThe problem; Small-scale farming landscapes in eastern Africa, as seen from two perspectives; Where is the boundary of the system?; What is the nature of agrarian societies?; Different conceptualisations: different world views?; Understanding European small-scale landscapes; Esch landscapes in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Bocage in Bretagne; Summer farms in Sweden; The historical evidence; Some concluding thoughts; Acknowledgements; References.