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Landscape protection as a tool for managing agricultural landscapes in Norway

Environmental Science and Policy, 2009
Abstract Norwegian Protected Landscapes aim to preserve landscape character. As most of the agricultural land in Protected Landscapes is privately owned, the attitudes and behaviour of farmers are crucial in achieving this goal. We present results of a nationwide questionnaire to farmers who owned or managed farmland in Protected Landscapes.
Klaus Mittenzwei, Wendy Jane Fjellstad
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Protection: The X in the Landscape

2022
This chapter makes a case that the very shape of the crossroads accords with the symbolism of intersecting lines most often used for the binding or banning of evil forces. It considers the concept and practice of spiritual binding through a variety of early modern examples of apotropaic devices wrought to protect the domestic space and takes into ...
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Landscape Ecology as a Basis for Protecting Threatened Landscapes

1997
In human dominated environments it seems more and more clear that the mitigation of the human impact and the conservation of the ecodiversity of the systems are priority goals to assure sustainable development. Most of the principles and paradigms used in landscape ecology may be applied to preserve threatened landscapes inside and outside parks and ...
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Landscape Protection in International Law

2018
This book explores the various avenues—institutional, substantive, and procedural—for the protection of landscape in international law. Since the inclusion of ‘cultural landscapes’ within the scope of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1992, landscape has gained increasing importance at the international level.
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Linking Landscape Protection and Nature Conservation: Switzerland’s Experience with Protected Mire Landscapes

2014
Since 1987, Switzerland’s Federal Inventory of Mire Landscapes of Particular Beauty and National Importance has provided an instrument for the integration of nature conservation and landscape protection. Mires and mire landscape protection are strictly regulated. However, research results show that neither the goals of mire protection nor those of mire
Hammer, Thomas, Leng, Marion
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The Heritage Areas are Protected Landscapes

Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology, 2022
Heritage Areas are areas of great natural, geological, aesthetic and cultural value. They have an important history and keep the traditions alive. Geological and natural processes from the early past to the present have evolved and contributed to the creation of Heritage Areas, so today we experience the heritage of exceptional cultural, natural and ...
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The landscape protection

Economia della Cultura, 2011
This paper illustrates the laws and the other legal measures in the field of landscape protection, that have been enacted in the 150 years of Italian unity. The author focuses on the norms issued during the fascist period (and to a large extent still in force) and those enacted after the Second World War; a special attention is paid to article 9 of the
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Western European Landscape Protection Western European Approaches to Landscape Protection: A Review of the Literature

Journal of Planning Literature, 2002
Western Europeans, by virtue of living in relatively small and densely populated countries, have learned how to protect lands where there is little pristine nature or state ownership. The results are protected landscapes, where management goals include not just recreation and environmental protection but also cultural retention and a sustainable ...
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Landscape as a “Common”: Collective Protection and Management

2013
Design approaches to the landscape and to the enhancement of cultural heritage based on the thematisation and spectacularisation of landscapes and architectures or the propensity for constructing simulacra no longer constitute an exception but if anything, the rule.
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