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Effects of Linpan nature therapy on health benefits in older women with and without hypertension

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundNature therapy can significantly benefit the physiology and psychology of middle-aged and older people, but previous studies have focused on forest environments.
Xiang Ye   +10 more
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Mapping Lost Woodland. An Attempt to Use the Spatial Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing Woodland in the Middle Ages

open access: yesRural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2022
After many centuries, much of Europe is now largely deforested. Today, plans for reforestation are ongoing. These plans have the potential to significantly impact the landscape.
Bert Groenewoudt   +3 more
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Two New Ways of Documenting Miniature Incisions Using a Combination of Image-Based Modelling and Reflectance Transformation Imaging

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
Digital 3D documentation methods such as Image-Based Modelling (IBM) and laser scanning have become increasingly popular for the recording of entire archaeological sites and landscapes, excavations and single finds during the last decade.
Dag-Øyvind E. Solem, Erich Nau
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An English Life in Landscape: Watching Landscape Research Over Half a Century

open access: yesJournal of Landscape Ecology, 2022
From a largely autobiographical perspective, the development of the European concept of landscape is considered through the last fifty years, focussed on the gap between the environmental idea which has progressively become more ecological, so the ...
Howard Peter
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Landscape of culture and culture of landscape: does landscape ecology need culture? [PDF]

open access: yesLandscape Ecology, 2010
The objects of study in landscape ecology becomeincreasingly ‘‘cultural.’’ Humans now appropriateabout 24% the Earth’s terrestrial net primary pro-ductivity (Haberl et al. 2007), and almost all ecosys-tems and landscapes around the world have beeninfluenced or even ‘‘domesticated’’ by humans(Kareiva et al. 2007). Landscapes are endowed with,and continue
openaire   +1 more source

Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400)

open access: yesRural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2015
In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of woodland presence, composition and structure.
Bert Groenewoudt, Theo Spek
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Residential greenness for mitigating impacts of extreme heat events on depression and supporting mental health

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundResidential green spaces (RGS) are a crucial aspect of urban life, which provide residents with a positive living environment both for mental and physical well-being.
Ying Yang   +3 more
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The Star-Beings and stones: Petroforms and the reflection of Native American cosmology, myth and stellar traditions

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2017
Native American myths, legends and oral traditions are rich with stories of giant beings existing in ancient times. They all talk of giant Thunderers or Thunder-beings, giant snakes and great Thunderbirds.
Herman E. Bender
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Cultural landscape zoning of Ukraine

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Геологія. Географія. Екологія, 2022
Formulation of the problem. Nowadays in Ukraine there is a significant gap in the application of cultural-landscape approach and the lack of cultural and landscape zoning (CLZ) at different taxonomic levels, as one of the fundamental stages in the ...
Kateryna Polyvach
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Factors Affecting Residents' Support for Tourism Development: Case of the Aurès Cultural Landscape [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2021
The paper aims to understand residents' perceptions and opinions of tourism impacts and to determine whether there is a relationship between tourism impacts and support/participation in tourism in a developing region: The Aurès.
Karima Imène Serhane   +2 more
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