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      Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change
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      Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change book

      ByLesley Head
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 1 September 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315824802
      Pages 208
      eBook ISBN 9781315824802
      Subjects Environment and Sustainability
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      Head, L. (2000). Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315824802

      ABSTRACT

      Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences and humanities. This stimulating new book argues that convergence of the two approaches can provide a more holistic understanding of long-term physical and human processes.



      Split into two major sections, this book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. The first section, provides an analysis of the methodological tools employed in examining processes of environmental change. Empirical research in the fields of palaecology and Quaternary studies is combined with the latest theoretical views of nature and landscape occurring in cultural geography, archaeology and anthropology. The author examines the way in which environmental management decisions are made. The book then moves on to discuss the relevance of this perspective to contemporary issues through a wide variety of international case studies, including World Heritage protection, landscape preservation, indigenous people and cultural tourism.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I OVERVIEW

      chapter 1|8 pages

      Contingent constructions: cultural landscapes and environmental change

      part |2 pages

      Part II METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FROM THE SCIENCES

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Transformed landscapes: human impacts and the palaeoecological record

      chapter 3|13 pages

      The question of naturalness: environmental change in ecology and palaeoecology

      change

      part |2 pages

      Part III METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FROM THE HUMANITIES

      chapter 4|17 pages

      The social construction of nature and landscape

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Production of knowledge and its policy implications

      part |2 pages

      Part IV CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND THE LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Protecting places

      chapter 7|20 pages

      Restored, (p)reserved and created landscapes

      chapter 8|17 pages

      Humanized landscapes: a place for people?

      chapter 9|19 pages

      Identity, heritage and tourism

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Conclusion

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