Threatened Landscapes Conserving Cultural Environments 1st Edition by Bryn Green ,Willem Vos ISBN 1138437425 978-1138437425

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ISBN 10:1138437425 

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Author:Bryn Green ,Willem Vos

Few, if any, environments are free of human intervention. Often this generates ecosystems which are rich in biodiversity, historical interest, recreational opportunity and scenic beauty just as worthy of conservation as the more natural ecosystems on which protection programmes have been almost exclusively focussed.These ‘cultural landscapes’, ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and Eastern North America, through to the pasture lands and savannas of the Middle East and Africa to the paddylands of the Pacific Rim, are usually the product of relatively low-level, sustainable exploitation of the environment over long periods of time. Many have survived for centuries, if not millennia, but now urban expansion, depopulation of rural areas and, most damagingly, the intensification of agricultural and sylvicultural practices, are everywhere leading to a loss of their cherished biodiversity and amenity. Whilst past changes have mostly added to the valued characteristics of these landscapes, modern farming and forestry are creating sterile monocultures on the better land whilst marginal lands are being abandoned.This book documents these changes, illustrates them through detailed case studies of a representative selection of threatened landscapes, analyses their underlying causes and explores ways by which they can continue to be maintained, or new landscapes created which maintain their desired characteristics.

Table of contents: 

Part One – What are Landscapes?
Chapter 1 – Landscape Development and Change
Chapter 2 – Ecological Pattern and Process at the Landscape Scale
Chapter 3 – An Environmental Classification of European Landscapes

Part Two – Landscapes Worthy of Protection
Chapter 4 – Polders – Krimpenerward, The Netherlands. Japanese Landscapes
Chapter 5 – Mountains – Sognefjord, Norway. Mount Carmel, Israel. Atlantic Heathland, Norway
Chapter 6 – Mediterranean Islands. Gavdhos, Crete. Omalos Plain, Crete. Balearic Landscapes. Rio S Lucia, Sardinia
Chapter 7 – Coltura Promiscua (Mixed Cropping) – Solano Basin, Italy. Montado (Dehesa), Portugal
Chapter 8 – Bocage (Wooded Farmland) – Weald of Kent and Sussex, England. Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic

Part Three – Landscape Conservation
Chapter 9 – Identifying Threatened Landscapes, Valued Landscapes
Chapter 10 – European Landscapes in Transition: Levels of Intervention
Chapter 11 – Managing Old Landscapes and Making New Ones

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