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Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the social-ecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated
Tobias Plieninger   +3 more
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Semiotic of Cultural Landscapes in Cultural Geography; a Conceptual Approach for Detection and understanding Meaning [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2012
Studying the Location and spatial performances as a part of human behavioris discussed in semiotics nowadays. These man-made effectsare including information and meaning that is the subject of semiotics.
Ebrahim Fayaz   +2 more
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Refreshing ‘Cultural Landscapes’ - ISCCL Global Dialogue 30 Years Later

open access: yes, 2021
David Jacques was co-chair of the meeting that defined cultural landscapes for World Heritage purposes in 1992, at which time he was Inspector of Historic Parks and Gardens at English Heritage.
ODonnell, Patricia, Jacques, David
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Vine landscapes in Crimea: evolution, problems, prospects

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2018
The conditions and factors of development of the vine landscapes in Crimea and their evolution are considered for the ancient, medieval, imperial, Soviet (first and second halves of the 20th century), and post-Soviet periods.
Pozachenyuk Katerina, Yakovenko Irina
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Imagining the Multilayered Cultural Landscape: A Template from the Columbia Plateau of North America

open access: yesLand, 2022
Cultural landscapes encompass a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and the natural environment occurring in both space and time.
Paul R. Nickens
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NDVI Identification and Survey of a Roman Road in the Northern Spanish Province of Álava

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
The Iter 34 (Antonine Itinerary XXXIV) is the name of the Roman road that crosses the province of Álava from west to east. Since no specific path was officially recognized before our study, the remains of the road did not benefit from heritage ...
Juan José Fuldain González   +1 more
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Cultural landscape evaluation and possibilities for future development – a case study of the island of Krk (Croatia)

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2011
Agricultural landscapes that resulted from many centuries of traditional agricultural cultivation are an important part of the cultural heritage in the European Mediterranean areas.
Iva Rechner Dika   +5 more
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REINVIGORATING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES FOR PLANNING CULTURAL TOURISM IN BALI [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020
A cultural landscape, a configuration produced by human actions and cultural structures in a physical setting, has a significant role to play as a vital feature of cultural tourism in Bali.
I Made ADHIKA   +1 more
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New Cultural Landscapes - emerging issues, context and themes

open access: yes, 2016
While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This ground breaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created
Taylor, Ken, Roe, Maggie
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The evolving place of indigenous people and their cultural landscapes in the World Heritage Convention at 50

open access: yes, 2021
Dr. Diane Menzies, ONZM, Rongowhakaata, Aitanga-a-Māhaki, is a member of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, a Kahui Whetū member of Ngā Aho (Māori designers’ network), chair of the New Zeland Landscape Foundation ...
Menzies, Diane, De Vries, Gregory W.
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