ABSTRACT
Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. Heritage conservation has shifted from an historical focus on buildings, city centres, and archaeological sites to encompass progressively more diverse forms of heritage and increasingly larger geographic areas, embracing both rural and urban landscapes. While the origin of the idea of cultural landscapes can be traced to the late-19th century Euro-American scholarship, it came to global attention after 1992 following its adoption as a category of ‘site’ by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Today, cultural landscape practice has become increasingly complex given the expansion of the values and meanings of heritage, the influence of environmental challenges such as human induced climate change, technological advancements, and the need to better understand and interpret human connections to place and landscapes.
The aim of this handbook is to strike a balance between theory and practice, which we see as inseparable, while also seeking to achieve a geographical spread, disciplinary diversity and perspectives, and a mix of authors from academic, practitioner, management, and community backgrounds.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Concepts and origins
part II|119 pages
Doctrine and regional approaches
chapter 2.4|9 pages
A Southern African cultural landscape approach
part III|104 pages
Framing cultural landscape practice
chapter 3.2|11 pages
Identifying cultural landscapes
chapter 3.4|14 pages
Assessing the heritage significance of landscapes
part IV|128 pages
Case studies
chapter 4.3|10 pages
Cultural heritage, cultural landscape
chapter 4.6|6 pages
Pastoral cultural landscapes, working the country for stock grazing
chapter 4.9|7 pages
Community participation in heritage conservation
chapter 4.11|6 pages
‘The First Celestial Mountain in the World’
chapter 4.12|8 pages
Conceptualising spiritscapes
part V|86 pages
Challenges, opportunities, and future directions