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Terraces are the major vehicle for agricultural activities in mountainous areas and are an important component of the agro-cultural heritage landscape. This work explores tourists’ perceived attitudes toward, and characteristics of terraced agro-cultural
Xiaopiao Yang +4 more
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Terraced tourism sustainability depends on maintenance for terraced landscape. The effective measures for protecting terraces rest on the cooperation among multi-stakeholders.
Guannan Zhu, Xiande Li, Yongxun Zhang
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Landscape Strategies for Terraced Landscapes in the European Alpine Region Using a Mixed-Method Analysis Tool [PDF]
Terraced landscapes are anthropic landscapes that need continuous management. Future planning policies need to develop bottom-up approaches in order to be able to take into consideration the perspectives of decision makers (DMs) and civil society ...
Enrico Pomatto +4 more
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Classifying the Mediterranean terraced landscape: the case of Adriatic Croatia [PDF]
This article presents a Croatian Adriatic terraced landscape classification, highlighting its natural and cultural background and proposing a classification framework for further research.
Goran Andlar +2 more
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Terraced landscapes are important to the cultural and environmental characteristics of many regions worldwide. Accurate and comprehensive documentation of these landscapes is challenging, especially when inventorying dry-stone walled terraced landscapes ...
Tomaž Berčič, Lucija Ažman Momirski
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Landscapes illustrating agricultural cultural heritage can serve as an important attraction to encourage tourism in support of rural revitalization in mountainous areas.
Luanyu Zhou +4 more
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The Bayu terraced human settlement is an on-site living cultural heritage site that responds to natural features such as mountainous landforms and seasonal hydrology.
Liao Wenjing, Mao Huasong, Luo Ping
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Evaluation and mapping of cultural services in terraced landscapes. The case study of the Amalfi Coast [PDF]
Cultural landscapes are a key resource for sustainable development. Among them, terraced landscapes are classified as “evolutive living” landscapes (UNESCO, 2012), an expression of the historical interrelationship between man and his territory. Currently
Antonia Gravagnuolo
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Maintaining steep slope viticulture for spider diversity
Many species-rich ecosystems are threatened by the abandonment or change of commonly-used agricultural practices. Steep slope viticulture, a traditional land use type of important cultural landscapes in Germany, declined strongly in recent decades due to
Vera Wersebeckmann +3 more
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Community-based Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) practices have been adopted in the Tigray region since 1991 for restoration of the degraded landscape.
Solomon Hishe +2 more
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