Willem Vos (ed.)

Threatened Landscapes

Conserving Cultural Environments
Herausgeber: Green, Bryn; Vos, Willem

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents the changes in cultural landscapes ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and Eastern North America, through to the pasture lands and savannas of the Middle East and Africa to the paddylands of the Pacific Rim. The contributors illustrate them through detailed case studies of a representative selection of threatened landscapes, analyzes their underlying causes and explores ways by which they can continue to be maintained, or new landscapes created which maintain their desired characteristics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 203mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780419256304
• ISBN-10: 041925630X
• Artikelnr.: 21898691

Autorenporträt

Bryn Green, Willem Vos

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Part One . What are Landscapes? Chapter 1
Landscape Development and Change. Chapter 2
Ecological Pattern and Process at the Landscape Scale. Chapter 3
An Environmental Classification of European Landscapes. Part Two
Landscapes Worthy of Protection. Chapter 4
Polders
Krimpenerward, The Netherlands. Japanese Landscapes. Chapter 5
Mountains
Sognefjord, Norway. Mount Carmel, Israel. Atlanic Heathland, Norway. Chapter 6
Mediterranean Islands. Gavdhos, Crete. Omalos Plain, Crete. Balearic Landscapes. Rio S Lucia, Sardinia, Chapter 7
Coltura Promiscua (Mixed Cropping)
Solano Basin, Italy. Montado (Dehesa), Portugal. Chapter 8
Bocage (Wooded Farmland)
Weald of Kent and Sussex, England. Tasman Peninsula Australia. Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic. Part Three
Landscape Conservation. Chapter 9
Identifying Threatened Landscapes, Valued Landscapes. Chapter 10.
European Landscapes in Transition: Levels of Intervention. Chapter 11
Managing Old Landscapes and Making New Ones.