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The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future
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The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future Hardback - 1989

by Hilary H. Birks (Editor); H. J. Birks (Editor); Peter Emil Kaland (Editor)

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The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as old land-use practices are abandoned and traditions forgotten. The papers in this book describe and trace the development of cultural landscapes in different climatic and biogeographical regions in Europe. Remnants of traditional land-use still remaining are described, particularly from Western Norway, where traditions have lingered because the rugged topography of the region is inimicable to high-technology. Each chapter is by an expert in the field. The topics cover the documentation of present cultural landscapes, their maintenance and restoration, and the history of the development of cultural landscapes from the Stone Age onwards, linking the intensity of landscape utilization with population dynamics and technological attainments. The disciplines involved include vegetation science, vegetation history, ecology, palaeoecology, archaeology, sociology, geography and history.

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Much of the traditional cultural landscape of north-west Europe is rapidly disappearing as a result of changes towards intensive modern agriculture or silviculture.

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  • Title The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future
  • Author Hilary H. Birks (Editor); H. J. Birks (Editor); Peter Emil Kaland (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date January 27, 1989
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521344357 / 0521344352
  • Weight 3.11 lbs (1.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 1.77 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 4.50 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Nature - Effect of human beings on -, Landscape changes - Congresses
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88025891
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.2
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