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Landscape today is no longer just a cultural aspect, intended as an elitist phenomenon, but emerges as an essential element in the definition and the application of a modern approach in sustainable development. Historical locally adapted distinctive and ingenious combinations of management practices have contributed and continue to contribute tremendously to the biodiversity of the world, resulting not only in outstanding aesthetic beauty, but, in the sustained provision of multiple goods and services, food and livelihood security and quality of life. The development of policies to preserve and manage landscape resources, has to face both the degradation of cultural landscape due to socio-economic development and the need to develop appropriate methods and approaches. This book presents different methodologies developed to analyse, manage and plan landscape resources. It reports recent research findings and case studies from Europe and North America, suggesting also the revision of some orientations and views of the current policies concerning forestry, rural development and nature conservation, often contributing to degrade cultural landscapes.
Contents
I: Introduction: Framing the Issue - a Trans-disciplinary Reflection on Cultural Landscapes Part I: Analysis 1: The Development of a Historical and Cultural Evaluation Approach in Landscape Assessment: the Dynamic of Tuscan Landscape between 1832 and 2004 2: Cultural Landscapes in Northern Forests - Time, Space and Affiliation to the Land 3: Energy Balance and Land Use: the Making of an Agrarian Landscape from the Vantage Point of Social Metabolism (the Catalan Vallès County in 1860/1870) 4: Earth Observation Techniques and Geographic Information Systems as Tools for Assessing Land Use/Cover Changes in a Landscape Context Part II: Management 5: The Project for the Rural Landscape Park in Moscheta (Tuscany, Italy) 6: Long-term Vegetation Dynamics in Southern Scandinavia and Their Use in Managing Landscapes for Biodiversity 7: Mountain Landscape, Pastoral Management and Traditional Practices in the Northern Pyrenees (France) 8: Maintaining Cultural and Natural Biodiversity in Europe's Economic Centre and Periphery 9: Rethinking Traditional Preservation Approaches for Managing a Forested Cultural Landscape: the Case of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park's Mount Tom Forest 10: Working Forest Landscapes: Two Case Studies from North Carolina 11: Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cultural Landscapes 12: Land-use and Landscape Histories: the Role of History in Current Environmental Decisions 13: Cultural Landscape Management in Europe and Germany 14: The Restoration of Forest Landscapes through Farmland Afforestation Measures in Spain Part III: Case studies 15: Historic Landscape Restoration: Case Studies of Site Recovery in Post-industrial South Yorkshire, England 16: Comparative International Research on Agricultural Land-use History and Forest Management Practices: the Tuscan Estate of Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 17: Shaping the Landscape: Long-term Effects of the Historical Controversy about the Viennese Forest (Wienerwald) 18: Recovery and Valorization of a Historical Fruit Orchard: the Kolymbetra in the Temple Valley, Sicily
