European Rural Landscapes
Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment
Published on 31. May 2004
Book
Hardback
XIII, 482 pages
978-1-4020-2067-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book, a compendium of 28 papers selected from two recent conferences on the topic, focuses on aspects of rural landscape, broadly related to issues of language, representation and power. These are issues that have not been addressed on a pan-European landscape level before.The aim is to offer a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary processes in European landscapes.
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Edition
2004 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 482 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
910 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-2067-4 (9781402020674)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-306-48512-1
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Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment
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Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment
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Content
1. the Permanence of Persistence and Change.- 2. the Languages of Rural Landscapes.- 3. "This Is Not a Landscape": Circulating Reference and Land Shaping.- 4. Naming and Claiming Discourse.- 5. Between Insideness and Outsideness - Studying Locals' Perceptions of Landscape.- 6. Landscape Consumption in Otepää, Estonia.- 7. Countryside Imagery in Finnish National Discourse.- 8. Religious Places - Changing Meanings. the Case of Saaremaa Island, Estonia.- 9. Of Oaks, Erratic Boulders, and Milkmaids.- 10. the Border and the Bordered.- 11. A Hidden World? A Gendered Perspective on Swedish Historical Maps.- 12. When Sweden Was Put on the Map.- 13. Tycho Brahe, Cartography and Landscape in 16th Century Scandinavia.- 14. New Money and the Land Market.- 15. the Landscape of Vittskövle Estate - At the Crossroads of Feudalism And Modernity.- 16. Greens, Commons and Shifting Power Relations in Flanders.- 17. Enclosure Landscapes in the Uplands of England and Wales.- 18. Land Purchase and the Survival of Swedish Ethnicity in Estonia.- 19.The Dynamics Of Property Rights In Post-Communist East Germany.- 20. Different Methods For the Protection Of Cultural Landscapes.- 21. the Significance of the Dutch Historical GIS Histland.- 22. the Future Role of Agriculture in Rural Communities.- 23. Danish Farmers and the Cultural Environment.- 24. the Human Factor in Biodiversity.- 25. Diversity of Estonian Coastal Landscapes: Past and Future.- 26. Management Strategies in Forest Landscapes in Norway.- 27. Past Landscape Use as an Ecological Influence on the Actual Environment.- 28. Can Landscapes Be Read?.- 29. the Permanent Conference and the Study of the Rural Landscape.