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Author : Jane Grenville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317798118
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mauro Agnoletti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789400753549
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical relationships between man and nature have generated, not deterioration, but cultural, environmental, social and economic values. The results show that is not only the economic face of globalization that is negatively affecting the landscape, but also inappropriate environmental policies. The CBD-UNESCO program on biocultural diversity, the FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and several projects of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, as well as European rural policies acknowledge the importance of cultural values associated to landscape. This research intends to support these efforts.
Author : F. H. A. Aalen,Kevin Whelan,Matthew Stout
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780802042941
Lush and green, the beauty of Ireland's landscape is legendary. "The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape" has harnessed the expertise of dozens of specialists to produce an exciting and pioneering study which aims to increase understanding and appreciation for the landscape as an important element of Irish national heritage, and to provide a much needed basis for an understanding of landscape conservation and planning. Essentially cartographic in approach, the Atlas is supplemented by diagrams, photographs, paintings, and explanatory text. Regional case studies, covering the whole of Ireland from north to south, are included, along with historical background. The impact of human civilization upon Ireland's geography and environment is well documented, and the contributors to the Atlas deal with contemporary changes in the landscape resulting from developments in Irish agriculture, forestry, bog exploitation, tourism, housing, urban expansion, and other forces. "The Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape" is a book which aims to educate and inform the general reader and student about the relationship between human activity and the landscape. It is a richly illustrated, beautifully written, and immensely authoritative work that will be the guide to Ireland's geography for many years to come.
Author : John Fraser Hart
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801857171
Carrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the bow wavewhere city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land.
Author : Hannes Palang,Helen Sooväli,Marc Antrop,Gunhild Setten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306485121
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.
Author : Eric L. Jones
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030686161
This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history.
Author : Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,Bas Pedroli,G. Bas M. Pedroli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070691
A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.
Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048597937
From pre-history to the present day our landscape has been transformed by dramatic human disturbance, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built-up layers of evidence which today present historians with exciting new insights about land use and rural communities of the past. In this groundbreaking new study Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the very landscape they so intimately describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Each chapter synthesizes the very latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its specific subject. The first ten chapters in turn describe the characteristic features of the main regional landscape types, including fenlands, downlands, woodlands, marshlands, and moorlands, showing that, however physically scattered they may be, they have been moulded by successive generations to produce many uniting similarities.
Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886123
This book looks at the evolution of rural settlement in Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the improving movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main emphasis is on changes in society and technology, but the book also considers how the development of the physical landscape laid the foundation for such changes. The author strikes a balance between general perspectives (including relevant contextual materials such as the political structures) and local studies, with much emphasis on individual sites. Lack of documentation prior to the 10th century places particular importance on the archaeological evidence, but imaginative interpretation of this evidence has led to a major re-evaluation. Ideas emphasizing continuity of settlement and local adaptation are replacing older ’invasionist’ theories emphasizing Celtic war lords and broch-building pirates.
Author : K. Takeuchi,R.D. Brown,I. Washitani,A. Tsunekawa,M. Yokohari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431678618
Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields of rural Japan made possible the sustainable interaction of nature and humans. Radical changes in the middle of the twentieth century led to the abandonment of satoyama landscapes which now are being rediscovered. There is a new realization that these woodlands still play a vital role in the management of the Japanese landscape and a new determination to manage them for the future. This multifaceted book explores the history, nature, biodiversity, current conservation measures, and future uses of satoyama. The information presented here will be of interest in all parts of the world where patterns of sustainable development are being sought.
Author : Urban Emanuelsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:092583264
Author : Frank Lohan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486478876
Both experienced and aspiring artists can benefit from this practical guide, which shows how to portray rustic settings from rural England to the American Southwest. Recalling the style of Eric Sloane, more than 400 detailed illustrations trace the steps from composition drawings to final sketches. Includes fundamentals for drawing trees, rocks, buildings, mountains, lakes, and other scenic elements.
Author : Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521851596
This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.
Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781684751563
Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Author : Hartley Lachter
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1845535065
Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures. Although the Punic cities and their rural landscapes are to be found along the southern shores and on the islands of the western Mediterranean basin, comprehensive studies of these archaeological remains are virtually non-existent. This book investigates Punic rural settlement in the western Mediterranean by bringing together and comparing the currently dispersed existing evidence for rural Punic settlement. The core of the volume is accordingly made up by a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence for Punic rural settlement from Sardinia, Sicily, Ibiza, mainland Spain and North Africa. Because agriculture and agrarian produce have always been assumed to have played a critical role in the Carthaginian colonial expansion, the connections between the various colonial contexts and the local characteristics of rural organisation are explored in detail in order to enhance our understanding of these colonial contexts. This in turn provides better insight into Carthaginian colonialism and local Punic rural settlement and their role in the wider Mediterranean context. By publishing this evidence and these interpretations in English, the authors hope to draw attention to Punic archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular, and to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both classical Antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.