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Modern zoning plans versus traditional landscape structures: Ecosystem service dynamics and interactions in rapidly urbanizing cultural landscapes

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
Cultural landscapes provide abundant and diverse ecosystem services (ES) for human-wellbeing. However, many traditional cultural landscapes worldwide are currently undergoing rapid urbanization. In decision-making concerning sustainable urbanization, tradeoffs frequently occur between different objectives (i.e., between multiple ES) and between ...
Jingyi Liu   +3 more
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Cultural geographies II: In the critical zone? – Environments, landscapes and life

Progress in Human Geography, 2023
In this second review of recent cultural geography research, I use the concept of The Critical Zone (originally from US Geoscience) as a lens. The environment is far too voluminous a field of cultural geographic research to be surveyed here, but it is too significant a body of research to be overlooked.
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‘These enchanted hills’: transforming cultural landscapes in the Hills Face Zone, South Australia

Landscape Research, 2020
Tensions between constructions of nature and culture are increasingly relevant in the twenty-first century as natural environments near large population centres come under increasing pressure from ...
Pamela A. Smith   +2 more
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Recovering Ancient Landscapes in Coastal Zones for Cultural Tourism: A Spatial Analysis

2020
Cultural assets are increasingly being used to enhance local distinction in face of a globalized tourism market which demands for unique and meaningful experiences. Land use in coastal areas as well as aesthetically pleasing landscapes is important of this tourism product.
Eric Vaz, Dora Agapito
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Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh's coastal landscape

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2014
This essay questions the possibilities of food sovereignty for producing a radical egalitarian politics. Specifically, it explores the class-differentiated implications of food sovereignty in a zone of ecological crisis – Bangladesh's coastal Khulna district.
Kasia Paprocki, Jason Cons
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