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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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Terraced landscapes: risk and liability
Terraced landscapes are preserved elements of the human-influenced environment, maintained by ongoing agricultural activities. Farmers are subject to the periodic collapse of terraces, which are repaired by means of traditional techniques. Unless it can
Gabriele Delogu +2 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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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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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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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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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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Classifying the Mediterranean terraced landscape: the case of Adriatic Croatia
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 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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