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Cultural landscape evaluation and possibilities for future development – a case study of the island of Krk (Croatia)

Acta 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, Branka Aničić, Kristina Krklec, Goran Andlar, Ines Hrdalo, Petra Pereković   +5 more
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REINVIGORATING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES FOR PLANNING CULTURAL TOURISM IN BALI [PDF]

Geo 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, I Dewa Gede Agung Diasana PUTRA   +1 more
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Cultural Landscape in World Heritage Conservation and Cultural Landscape Conservation Challenges in Asia

Built Heritage, 2018
UNESCO was the first United Nations agency to deal with landscapes at a global scale, notably through the World Heritage Convention. In 1992, Cultural Landscapes’ became a new category on the World Heritage List combining works of nature and of humankind:
Mechtild Rössler, Roland Chih-Hung Lin
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Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Ecology 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, Dan van der Horst, Christian Schleyer, Claudia Bieling   +3 more
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Maintaining standing stones benefits biodiversity in lowland heathland [PDF]

, 2018
The exploitation of natural resources by people generally has detrimental effects on nature but in some cases anthropogenic activities can result in changes to the natural environment that produce new habitats and increase biodiversity. Understanding and
Agnoletti, Burl, Dudley, Emma Shepheard-Walwyn, Gaillard, Heil, Howard, Kent, Key, Kirby, Krebs, Media, Moran, Pratt, Shonil A. Bhagwat, Taylor, Whittaker, Yates   +17 more
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Deep Mechanical Coring Delivers New Pleistocene Archaeological Sites up to Eight Metres Below Surface in the Flemish Valley (Belgium)

Heritage
Our study reveals multiple signals of Palaeolithic occupation in the Flemish Valley, a large depression in coastal northwestern Europe with an extremely sparse Pleistocene archaeological record until now.
Philip Van Peer, Mark Willems, Mathieu Boudin, Ward Caes   +3 more
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Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria

Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 2022
In 1992, the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument recognize cultural landscapes as a human heritage that must be protected.
Guerrout Chouaib, Bahar Baser Kalyoncuoglu   +1 more
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A GIS BASED SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT [PDF]

, 2012
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) provides a structured approach to identifying the character and distinctiveness about the landscape. It is a tool used to identify what makes a location unique, a set of techniques and procedures used to map ...
Davey, Faye Elanor
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ABORIGINE CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH AS HERITAGE OBJECTS

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2011
The paper presents a problem of preservation of cultural landscapes of indigenous peoples as a part of national cultural heritage of Russia. The structure and features of aboriginal cultural landscapes of the North that reflect semiotic arrangement of ...
Tatiana Krasovskaya
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VISUAL IMAGERY AND LEARNING ABOUT CULTURAL LANDSCAPES DURING GEOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY STUDIES [PDF]

Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2019
One of the most complex topics in Geography is linked to cultural landscapes. Although this concept has aroused the interest of scholars from different nations and the bibliography is diverse, among students there are ...
OANA-RAMONA ILOVAN , COSMINA-DANIELA URSU, MARIA ELIZA DULAMĂ   +2 more
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