Long-term development of a cultural landscape: the origins and dynamics of lowland heathland in southern England

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 453-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon A. Groves ◽  
Martyn P. Waller ◽  
Michael J. Grant ◽  
J. Edward Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Southern England

Using GIS to analyse long-term cultural landscape change in Southern Germany

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Bender ◽  
Hans Juergen Boehmer ◽  
Doreen Jens ◽  
Kim Philip Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Change ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Southern Germany

Modelling long-term transpiration measurments from grassland in southern England

2000 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Harding ◽  
C. Huntingford ◽  
P.M. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Southern England

scholarly journals Long-term deposit at Rothamsted, southern England

Tellus ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brimblecombe ◽  
John Pitman
Keyword(s):  
Southern England

scholarly journals Changing livelihoods and language repertoires: hunting, fishing and gold mining in the southeast Peruvian Amazon

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (246) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Aikman
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Hunting And Fishing

AbstractThis article investigates how over the space of three decades the language repertoires of the Arakmbut people of the southeast Peruvian Amazon have shifted from being predominantly Harakmbut language based to Spanish language based. It asks not how one language has come to replace another in the daily lives of the Arakmbut, but what this shift represents in terms of changing lifestyles, social relations, desirable affiliations and the changing value Harakmbut and Spanish language resources have for them in furthering these relationships. Drawing on long term ethnographic research, it presents four scenarios over this period through which the changes in Arakmbut livelihoods from hunting and fishing to gold mining are discussed and what these changes mean in terms of their social, cultural and spiritual relationships with their territory. As their livelihoods have become more entwined with the gold economy and new national alliances and international networks, they have sought to reshape their communicative repertoires to respond to and ensure their continuing access to resources for their health and stability as a community in an intense and fast moving social, economic and cultural landscape.

Natural-cultural landscape heritage at Ritidian, Guam

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike T. Carson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Accuracy ◽  
Managed Ecosystems ◽  
Landscape Heritage ◽  
Practical Implications

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.

Urban people as paddy farmers: The Japanese Tanada Ownership System discussed from a European perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia R. Kieninger ◽  
Eiji Yamaji ◽  
Marianne Penker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
International Context ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Chiba Prefecture ◽  
Intensive Instruction ◽  
Paddy Farmers ◽  
Urban People ◽  
Local Farmers

AbstractThe degradation of the traditional cultural landscape due to abandonment of agricultural management is perceived as a serious problem in different parts of the world. Rising consciousness concerning this issue in Japan led to the formation of numerous voluntary civil farming programs. This paper presents a multi-method case study conducted in Japan (Ōyamasenmaida, Chiba prefecture) about a highly relevant rural–urban cooperation, where landholders lease out their rice terraces to city dwellers to grow their own rice under the intensive instruction and well-organized support by local farmers and other local experts. The activity is known as ‘Tanada Ownership’ (tanada means rice terrace). It is spread over the country and promises, in contrast to the short-term individualistic European models, long-term rural–urban relations, the valorization of local knowledge and natural resources as well as the maintenance of the rice-terrace landscapes in several regions of Japan. The particular goal of this research is the investigation of the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of the system and the motivation of its participants. The Japanese approach is compared with similar European initiatives and conclusions focus on the particularities of the Japanese Ownership System and its transferability to the European context. Despite the innovativeness and popularity of the Ownership System, scientific studies are relatively scarce and none of them published are in English. This article therefore presents an original and important contribution to the scientific community, as it provides insights into the Tanada Ownership System and puts it into an international context by comparing it with European initiatives of voluntary farm work.

scholarly journals Visual Culture in Prehistoric South-east Italy

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Robin Skeates
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Cultures ◽  
The Bronze Age

Using the approach of visual culture, which highlights the embeddedness of art in dynamic human processes, this paper examines the prehistoric archaeology of the Lecce province in south-east Italy, in order to provide a history of successive visual cultures in that area, between the Middle Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. It is argued that art may have helped human groups to deal with problems in subsistence and society, including environmental changes affecting the cultural landscape and its resources, the breaking up of old social relations and the establishment and maintenance of new ones. More specifically, art appears to have become increasingly related to the expression of religious and even mythical beliefs, and in particular to the performance of ceremonies and rituals in selected spaces such as caves. This may reflect the existence of a long-term tradition of performance art in prehistory, involving performers and viewers, in which art helped to structure and heighten the sensual and social impact of the acting human body.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Slovak Cultural Landscape Since the 18th Cent. and its Recent Trends

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislav Olah ◽  
Martin Boltižiar ◽  
Igor Gallay
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Industrial Construction ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Land Use Development

Transformation of the Slovak Cultural Landscape Since the 18th Cent. and its Recent Trends The paper is focused on a long-term development of the selected Slovak cultural landscape types (plains, basins, uplands, highlands, and mountains) in approx. 200 years, which shaped the main land use features as well as on the recent transformation trends. The land use development analyses showed that from a long term view perspective several distinct periods can be distinguished. Each of these periods was characteristic for certain land use changes depending both on the landscape character or the socioeconomic situation. The recent trends as land use intensification (intense agriculture, sub-urbanisation, industrial construction) or land use extensification (agricultural land overgrowing) are considered to be common for the entire Slovak territory. Special transformation trends reflect more local conditions, human needs and preferences (construction of water reservoirs, wind calamities or tourism resorts) and though they are spatially isolated and small they influence the majority of Slovak inhabitants.

Long-term patterns of change in a vanishing cultural landscape: A GIS-based assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 38-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Amici ◽  
Simona Maccherini ◽  
Elisa Santi ◽  
Dino Torri ◽  
Francesca Vergari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape
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