Learning to love the landscapes of carbon-neutrality
Landscapes of Energies. Special Issue
Carbon economy ; Cultural landscape ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Landscape esthetics ; Sustainable development
This paper proposes that society’s pursuit of sustainable development will involve landscape changes that attract protest and opposition. It considers the role of drivers of change. Energy is likely to be a major driver of new landscapes. Reference
is made to the notion of the acquired aesthetic. The paper therefore raises the possibility that we can learn to see beauty and attractiveness in emerging landscapes of carbon neutrality.
2010
[b1] University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Sheffield, Royaume-Uni
The dimensional landscape model : exploring differences in expressing and locating landscape qualities
Aborigines ; Landscape ; Landscape evaluation ; Methodology ; Model ; New Zealand
Using a New Zealand example to illustrate the problem, and examining a range of approaches across landscape disciplines and indigenous groups, underlying differences are identified in how landscape qualities are expressed and located.
Based on an analysis of the antecedents to legislation for the protection of natural beauty, and of subsequent efforts to analyse and describe fine landscapes, this paper considers the contested use of ‘natural beauty’ in current landscape policy.
2010
[b1] University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Sheffield, Royaume-Uni
Same land cover, same land use at the large scale, different landscapes at the small scale : landscape change in olive plantations on Lesvos Island, Greece : Special section : Landscape change and regional identity
Agricultural landscape change at the small scale is studied to conceptualize the processes that change these landscapes according to the decisions that farmers make. The five-year differences in land cover, land use and landscape at the small scale
Birds, wind and the making of wind power landscapes in Aude, Southern France
Landscapes of Energies. Special Issue
Aeolian features ; Aude ; Bird ; Environmental management ; France ; Impact ; Landscape ; Languedoc-Roussillon ; Man-environment relations ; Wind energy
Landscape and birds are an important cause of blocking wind power projects. This paper investigates in the South of France the question of whether birds and wind power can be part of a same landscape and what type of landscape this could compose
. The AA. focuse on the attachments that animals or landscape might develop or entice humans to develop. They show that the process by which such a wind power landscape is composed engages birds into successive translations, which ultimately translate bird
intelligence in composing with the wind into a quality of the landscape. As a result, such a landscape emerges from a net of relations and has a quality which is not necessarily visually readable: it is accountable to the entities which have been brought
Energy ; Energy policy ; Landscape ; Renewable energy ; Research
This editorial discusses the empirical and theoretical potential of developing research works at the crossroads of landscapes and energies, and ventures a tentative agenda for what can be termed the ''landscapes of energies''. The papers gathered
in this special issue all explore the evolving relationship between landscape and energy, albeit from different angles. They capture, together, some of the richness of this emerging research field.
Complexity is a concept that appears in the development of indicators for several landscape functions, including visual quality and biodiversity. This paper outlines the factors which constitute the dimensions of complexity perception.
2010
[b1] Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Suede
[b2] Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norvege
Cultural heritage of roads and road landscapes : classification and insights on valuation
Cultural patrimony ; Cultural studies ; Landscape ; Landscape evaluation ; Road
The article is aimed to present a framework for analysing the cultural heritage of the automobile roads and road landscapes consisting of the system for its classification and of identification of factors determining its cultural value
From Soviet to Post-Soviet with transformation of the fragmented urban landscape : the case of garage areas in Estonia
Estonia ; Garage area ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Post-communism ; Town ; Urban landscape
In addition to the elements that have been formed under the forces of the current era, the landscape also contains elements from previous eras. Functions of some of these landscapes have changed. With the fall of the Soviet system, garage areas have
not been demolished and are still in use. The A. analyzes the dynamics of urban landscape. Garage areas are used as a case study in the transformation of Estonian society.
2010
[b1] Center for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonie
The social productivity of farming : a case study on landscape as a symbolic resource for place-making in southern Alentejo, Portugal
Alentejo ; Locality ; Place ; Portugal ; Rural landscape ; Social life ; Territorial identity
The paper deals with landscape in relation to the production of place and of social identities perceived as local. It offers an interpretation of why residents in a village in Alentejo perceive landscape change the way they do. Residents mobilize
landscape as a symbolic resource when facing changes in land-use that question established farming practices as the best use for the land.
Landscape as an area perceived through activity : implications for diversity management and conservation
Land use ; Landscape ; Norway ; Perception ; Plant canopy ; Protected area
This article uses an activity-based understanding of landscape to explore values related to perceived land cover diversity. Perceptions within two user groups in a mountain area in western Norway are related to a simultaneous land cover survey
, and compared to experts’ evaluations of land cover and to the aims of landscape protection in the area.
2010
[b2] Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, As, Norvege
Civilization ; Community ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Ethics ; Europe ; Landscape ; Modernity
The landscape goes beyond his own definition. It prints the man whom it is marked by: it reflects him and his history. There is difference between landscape tout court and cultural landscape. The former is generic and the latter includes a universe
of values, images and symbols. Each community engraved there its ethics and aesthetics. In European landscapes, for example, we can see the distinctive and unique civilization signs. Modernity is now eroding and banalising the landscape scenery. We think
The aim of this study is todemonstrate how a number of key plants were perceived in ancient cultures using some examples from the Mediterranean landscape and to use them to help to evaluate different dimensions of archaeological landscapes using
2010
[b1] Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Akdeniz, Akdeniz, Turquie
Landscapes, water policy and the evolution of discourses on hydropower in Spain
Landscapes of Energies. Special Issue
Environmental management ; Government policy ; Hydraulic works ; Hydro-electric station ; Landscape ; Regional policy ; Spain ; Stream ; Water energy ; Water management
The paper explores the institutional and social processes through which river and hydropower landscapes have emerged in Spanish water policy. It examines the relation between different types of policies and attitudes towards landscape, energy, water
, environment and land use in the production of Spanish landscapes. The article presents examples at both national and regional levels to explain that the institutional emergence of the river landscape in Spain has been closely related to the democratization
Amenities and disamenities : a hedonic analysis of the heterogeneous landscape in Shenzhen (China)
China ; Garden ; Guangdong ; Hedonistic model ; Housing cost ; Landscape ; Local amenities ; Price fixing ; Shenzhen ; Urban geography ; Urban landscape ; Urban park
The paper presents a hedonic analysis of the amenity and disamenity effects arising from the heterogeneous urban landscape in a Chinese city. The study focuses on the central built-up area of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. A three-dimensional
model is applied to estimate the effects of these urban landscape features. Residential gardens were the most attractive landscape and urban villages had disamenity effects. The visibility of landscape was more valued than the accessibility.
How do policies shape landscapes ? Landscape change and its political driving forces in the Limmat Valley, Switzerland 1930-2000
Environmental management ; Intensive cultivation ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Planning ; Regional policy ; Switzerland ; Twentieth Century ; Urban fringe ; Urbanization ; Zurich
Over the past few decades, urbanization, agricultural intensification, and greening have enormously changed the traditional cultural landscape of the study area in the Swiss lowlands. The aim of this research is to quantify the importance
of political driving forces and to describe the landscape changes associated with them. The landscape changes were quantified based on the comparison of historical maps and driving forces were compiled and linked with changes based on document analysis
and expert interviews. They found that political driving forces contributed 26% to landscape change. Landscape changes such as new roads and buildings, changes in the agricultural and forestry network, the loss of elements of the traditional agricultural
landscape, new solitary trees, and new roadside slopes have been associated with political driving forces.
Expert systems, local knowledge and power in Argyll, Scotland : Special section : Landscape change and regional identity
Biodiversity ; Environment ; Land use ; Landscape ; Local knowledge ; Power ; Rural area ; Scotland ; United Kingdom
This article is based on research carried out as part of a larger project into land use and landscape in Argyll 1945-2005. The aim of the article is to point out the ways in which strategies employed by agencies responsible for monitoring rural
landscapes interact with the ideas and knowledge of local people.
A small number of farmers are interviewed in two contrasting Danish case study areas. The AA. analyze the way in which the landscape is perceived by farmers and compare their views of the changing landscapes with the actual recorded changes
2010
[b1] Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Danemark
Differences in preferences towards potential future landscapes in the Swiss Alps
Environmental conservation ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape esthetics ; Perception ; Preference ; Reforestation ; Switzerland
This study aims to identify and explain preferences towards potential future landscapes : between landscape settings at different elevation belts ; between a group of local residents and the general Swiss population ; between social groups within
2010
[b1] Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Social Sciences in Landscape Research Group, Birmensdorf, Suisse