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Sustainability of terraced paddy fields in traditional satoyama landscapes of Japan

Journal of Environmental Management, 2017
Katsue Fukamachi
exaly   +2 more sources

Terraced Landscapes in the Canary Islands: La Gomera, “The Terrace Island”

2018
The aim of this work is to map and characterize the maximum surface area of terraced slopes on La Gomera Island. To do so, two digital orthophotos, from 1964 and 2016, were used and analyzed with GIS. These sources represent two key moments in the recent history of the island, corresponding in the first instance to a peak in population and agricultural
Romero Martín, Lidia Esther, Hernández Cordero, Antonio Ignacio, Santana Cordero, Aarón Moisés, Vargas Negrín, Carla, Palerm Salazar, Juan Manuel   +4 more
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Terraced Landscapes in Perù: Terraces and Social Water Management

2018
Challenged by the area’s imposing verticality, the societies inhabiting the Andes Mountains made constant effort to profitably exploit the slopes and develop the territory for supporting agriculture, which gave rise to characteristic terraced landscapes.
Lianet Camara, Mourik Bueno de Mesquita
openaire   +1 more source

Geomatics in Analysing the Evolution of Agricultural Terraced Landscapes

2014
The present paper shows the first step of an ongoing research implemented for a dynamic characterisation and valorisation of a historical terraced landscape in Italy, the ‘Costa Viola’ landscape in the Calabria region. The Costa Viola dry-stone terraces characteristics and the Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) evolution between 1976 and 2012 were analysed ...
Giuseppe Modica, Salvatore Praticò, Maurizio Pollino, Salvatore di Fazio   +3 more
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Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley: The deserted village of Torrentejo in the Basque Country, Spain

Geoarchaeology, 2019
The historical agrarian landscape features of the deserted medieval village of Torrentejo (Ebro Valley, southern Basque Country, Rioja Alavesa region) are presented here.
J. Quirós‐Castillo, C. Nicosia
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Slovenian Terraced Landscapes

2018
This review of Slovenian terraced landscapes presents some archaeological details, a detailed survey of published research on terraced landscapes, and the state of terraced landscapes in Slovenia. The study concludes with the inclusion of terraced landscapes in spatial planning and in protected cultural landscapes.
openaire   +1 more source

The effect of agricultural abandonment and mountain terrace degradation on soil organic carbon in a Mediterranean landscape

, 2020
Extensive areas of arable land have been abandoned in many countries around the world, especially in the Mediterranean region. The overall goal of this study is to assess the effects of agricultural land abandonment on soil organic carbon (SOC ...
H. Djuma, A. Bruggeman, A. Zissimos, Irene C. Christoforou, M. Eliades, C. Zoumides   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Terraced landscaping.

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Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2020
Yongxun Zhang, Lulu He, Longteng Liu, Q. Min   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Planning, Policies and Governance for Terraced Landscape: A General View

Environmental History, 2018
Enrico Fontanari, D. Patassini
semanticscholar   +1 more source