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Terraced landscapes: an increasingly prominent cultural landscape type [PDF]
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Over the past decades, attractive terraced landscapes composed of cultivated terraces have been increasingly dealt with in studies in geography, landscape architecture, ethnology, rural sociology, agronomy, pedology, and other spatial disciplines. Around
Drago Kladnik +2 more
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Natural or Human Landscape Beauty? Quantifying Aesthetic Experience at Longji Terraces Through Eye-Tracking [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement ResearchThis study investigated tourists’ visual perception, aesthetic experience, and behavioral intentions across four types of landscapes. A total of 353 questionnaires were distributed on-site, and the SOR model was used to examine the visual stimuli and ...
Ting Zhang +4 more
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Terraced Landscape Regeneration in the Perspective of the Circular Economy [PDF]
, 2021 Terraced landscapes were for centuries forms of sustainable and multifunctional land management, results of a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their environment. They demonstrated a rich cultural diversity and agrobiodiversity through
Antonia Gravagnuolo +5 more
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The ‘District Heating Wall’:a synergistic approach to achieve affordable carbon emission reductions in old terraced houses [PDF]
, 2012 One effective method to help the UK achieve GHG emission reduction targets is to reduce and decarbonise the heat demand of solid-walled terraced houses, as there are over 2.5 million such buildings making up a significant proportion of the whole building
Frost, Claire +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Terraced landscapes represent one of the most widespread human-induced/man-made transformations of hilly-mountainous environments. Slope terracing produces peculiar morphologies along with unusual soil textures and stratigraphic features, which in turn ...
Matteo Fiorucci +12 more
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Terraced Landscapes. The “Penisola Sorrentino – Amalfitana” Case [PDF]
, 2017 “Terraced landscapes are all over the world. They are the tangible evidence of how human life can express itself in the steepest slopes of mountain and coastal areas of the world.Despite the multi-disciplinary values that terraced landscapes represent ...
Cappiello, Vito
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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands
Via@, 2020 Cultural landscapes are combined work of man and nature. In 1992, the World Heritage Convention adopted the cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. In Asia, the ongoing urbanization and rural-urban migration have threatened the continuing cultural
Zhe Wang, Nelson Graburn
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Terraced landscapes are widely applied in many mountainous regions around the world as a result of the necessity to practice subsistence agriculture.
Guido Paliaga +6 more
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Transformation of the Jeruzalem Hills cultural landscape with modern vineyard terraces
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 The terraced landscape in the Jeruzalem Hills is the result of specific socioeconomic conditions under communism, and now its appearance is drastically changing for the second time in the last fifty years.
Primož Pipan, Žiga Kokalj
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Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China
Land, 2021 The relationship between tourism and landscape has been extensively studied, but a conceptual framework to study cultural relationships between tourism and landscape is not specified in the literature. On the basis of the theory of social imaginary, this
Zhe Wang, Lawal Marafa
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