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Land-use Decision-making and Landscape Degradation: a case study in the American Southwest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study examines the role of land-use decision-making of different actor groups, including land developers, politicians, residents, NGOs and city planners, in contributing to land degradation in the American Southwest.
Yu, Yang
core   +6 more sources

Analyzing Transregional Vernacular Cultural Landscape Security Patterns with a Nature–Culture Lens: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Area, China

open access: yesLand, 2023
Cultural landscape security is important to national spatial and cultural security. However, compared with the many achievements in the study of ecological security, transregional cultural landscape security research lacks enough attention to match its ...
Jiaying Yan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing Landscape Ecological Security Patterns of an Ancient Capital Based on Cellular Automata Theory

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
Urban sprawl in developing countries changes urban land use structure and function, and threatens the sustainable development of regional ecology and security patterns of city landscapes.
Xuhui Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmland Zoning Integrating Agricultural Multi-Functional Supply, Demand and Relationships: A Case Study of the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area, China

open access: yesLand, 2021
Land-use zoning provides an effective tool for designing and implementing differentiated farmland-protection policies. Despite the exponential increase in research on farmland zoning in recent years, little research has comprehensively explored the ...
Shan He   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs) and key urban landscape features: a pilot study for land use policy and planning review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
Cultural ecosystem services (CESs), despite providing multiple non-material benefits associated with human well-being, have been overlooked in urban planning.
Laura Bachi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determining and quantifying the historical traces of spatial land arrangements in rural landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The article attempts to define and determine the intangible components of cultural heritage related to the spatial structure of land in a comprehensive way using computational methods.
Barbara Prus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

TRACING CULTURAL LANDSCAPE VALUES OF CHILDREN WITH PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The cultural landscape value categories found from the workshop evaluation describe the character of the cultural landscape of children: living, learning and moving in the network of places between home and the world outside based on the local and family
Puolamaki Laura
core   +1 more source

Zoning scenic areas of heritage sites using visibility analysis: the case of Zhengding, China

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
The preservation of historical architecture not only protects the specific building site but also preserves the surrounding historical setting. However, unassigned and vast historical settings are considered extremely delicate in terms of conservation ...
Joungah Lee
doaj   +1 more source

A Military Zone in a Dwelling of the Buddhas: Appropriation and Re-appropriation of the Cultural Landscape in Transbaikalia [PDF]

open access: yesČeský lid, 2020
This article considers a place as being filled with the symbolic meanings of the different groups controlling that place in different periods of history. It focuses on the example of the Soviet military zone in Transbaikalia, which was created on the site of the Buryat Buddhist monastery of Tsugol in the early 1930s.
openaire   +2 more sources

Discovering the marina’s cultural heritage and cultural landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Culture and heritage are relevant elements in the marinas’ landscape, and they could be competitive advantages in the management of these maritime facilities.
Martín, Ricardo   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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