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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands

open access: yesVia@, 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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Terraced Landscapes as NBSs for Geo-Hydrological Hazard Mitigation: Towards a Methodology for Debris and Soil Volume Estimations through a LiDAR Survey

open access: yesRemote 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

open access: yesActa 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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Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

open access: yesLand, 2021
Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that occurred ...
Antonio Santoro   +5 more
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Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China

open access: yesLand, 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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Landscape-cognitive trail "To the mountain Vysoky Verkh" (National Park "Skole Beskids")

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
The landscape diversity of the cognitive nature trail "To the mountain Vysoky Verkh" is characterized within the Skole Beskids National Nature Park, and nine landscape and cognitive stops are proposed that represent typical and unique landscape tracts ...
O. O. Burianyk, A. V. Melnyk
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Der Wert der Landschaft

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2001
Our cultural landscape is more and more endangered by anthropogenic influences. Therefore concepts are necessary which help to preserve such areas.
Hubert Job, Stefan Knies
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Modification of the potential production capabilities of agricultural terrace soils due to historical cultivation in the Budina cadastral area, Slovakia

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2015
The soil production attributes of historical agrarian terraced fields were examined in the Budina cadastral area of the Ostrozky Mountains. This landscape represents a unique sub-mountainous Carpathian landscape with farms that use a historically ...
Slámová Martina   +4 more
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LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND GLOBAL SOIL CHANGE IN ALPINE VALLEYS: IMPACT OF ANTHROPEDOGENESIS ON TERRACED SOILS (BELLUNO, NORTHERN ITALY)

open access: yesEQA, 2017
During the last decades, increasing human influence on the environment has determined strong impacts on soils. Although the effects of global soil change are currently quantified, to study and understand how and at which intensity soils are modified by ...
Claudio Bini   +4 more
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Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2017
This article presents the current state of protection of terraced landscapes as an important type of cultural landscape, both globally and in Slovenia. The UNESCO World Heritage List, the Satoyama Initiative list, and the Slovenian Register of Immovable ...
Drago Kladnik   +2 more
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