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Runoff–sediment dynamics and degradation patterns in an abandoned terraced landscape on the Loess Plateau

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Terracing is an important measure to conserve water and soil on the Loess Plateau. Previous studies have showed that due to extreme rainstorms and a lack of maintenance, loess terraces have experienced degradation predominantly as collapses and sinkholes.
Xuan Fang, Mingguo Peng, Yanzi Yan, Xia Xu, J. Na   +4 more
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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.
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Terraced landscaping.

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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
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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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Mediterranean terraced landscape characterization

2006
Les paysages méditerranéens de terrasse sont souvent façonnés par des systèmes de drainage agricole. Ils sont aujourd'hui fortement exposés à des dégradations du fait dechangements et abandon progressifs de leur gestion. L'objectif de la recherche présentée est de caractériser les systèmes de drainage des terrains en pente à l'échelle d'un territoire ...
Rizzo, Davide, Sabbatini, Tiziana, Galli, Mariassunta, Bonari, Enrico   +3 more
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Abandonment of traditional terraced landscape: A change detection approach (a case study in Costa Viola, Calabria, Italy)

, 2017
G. Modica, S. Praticò, Salvatore Di Fazio   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Outstanding Terraced Landscape of the Cinque Terre Coastal Slopes (Eastern Liguria)

, 2017
P. Brandolini
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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
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Models of Terraced Landscape Regeneration in the Case of Slovenia

, 2019
Lucija Ažman Momirski
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