The objective of the study is to review the literature on sampling methods for estimating landscape metrics. Sampling-based approaches for the estimation of landscape metrics appear promising.
Concept ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Landscape ; Spatial analysis ; Tourism
The concept of cultural landscape has been at the core of the scientific concerns of generations of geographers and geographical understandings of landscape have also influenced the ways in which modern landscape has been conceived in cognate
of landscape for spatial theory and spatial analysis. In the final part of the paper a particular attention is given to the relationship between the cultural landscape and tourism and travel, envisioned as key expressions of the spatialities of the Moder
Cartographic display ; Europe ; Geodiversity ; Geographical information system ; Geosystem ; Hotspot ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Natural landscape
The AA. identify the most diverse places in Europe, regarding natural landscape types. The analysis covered most of Europe at 5 km resolution. Each cell was observed by counting different landscape types in a radius of 50 km, producing several maps
of landscape diversity. Maps were synthesized into one, showing landscape diversity of Europe. Among European countries Slovenia has the highest average landscape diversity; the highest absolute landscape diversity is in the Norwegian part of southern
This paper introduces new methodological approaches and outputs of semi-complex landscape typology of Czechia. The main methodological output is a proposal of landscape typological classification, based on up-to-date dataset synthesis. The practical
result of this study is the definition and cartographic representation of landscape types at three hierarchical levels – General types of natural landscapes, Types of natural landscapes, Types of present landscape. - (EN)
Dissimulated landscapes : poscolonial method and the politics of space in southern Sri Lanka
Architecture ; Buddhism ; Cultural studies ; Ethno-nationalism ; Landscape ; Post-colonialism ; Sri Lanka
The paper puts forward a broadly postcolonial method for engaging with landscapes in southern Sri Lanka. Landscapes risk dissimulating the politics of places as they are produced and lived contextually. This argument is worked through a critical
engagement of the landscape architecture of a tropical-modernist architect (G. Bawa). The A. shows how some of the familiar concept-metaphors (nature, religion, subjectivity) hold particular kinds of landscape politics that emerge from human relationships
Agricultural employment ; Agricultural landscape ; California ; Enclosure ; England ; Germany ; Hegemony ; Landscape ; Nationalism ; Perception ; Phenomenology ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Trade unionism ; United Kingdom ; United States of America
The AA. analyse the figures in the revolutionary landscape through the following articles : 1-Labour geography and geography’s labour: California as an (anti) revolutionary landscape ; 2-Attention and the phenomenological politics of landscape ; 3
-Heiddegger, Latour and the reification of things: the inversion and spatial enclosure of the substantive landscape of things- The Lake Districts case ; 4-Germany in times of crisis : passive revolution, struggle over hegemony and new nationalism.
Beyond the unknown : understanding prehistoric patterns of the urbanised landscape of Flanders
Archaeology ; Belgium ; Bronze Age ; Flanders ; Geographical information system ; Land use ; Natural landscape ; Prehistory
The paper presents a case study on the distribution pattern of Bronze Age barrows in the highly urbanised landscape of north-western Belgium. By integrating natural, cultural and archaelogical landscape research, the completeness and reliability
of the archaeological dataset can be estimated. Knowledge of the biography of landscapes is important in the preservation of these landscapes and our ability to incorporate hidden past landscapes into the actual sustainable management of its cultural-historical heritage.
Festivals, landscapes, and aesthetic engagement : a phenomenological approach to four Norwegian festivals
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Festival ; Norway ; Phenomenology
The article examines the relationship between festivals, landscapes, and aesthetics. Festivals are characterized by social, aesthetic, and symbolic value, as well as cohesion, joy, openness, expressive, play, and diversity, and that experience
Placing livestock in landscape studies : pastures new or out to graze?
Animals and the landscape
Cattle ; Landscape ; Livestock ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Research ; United Kingdom
The paper reviews research on livestock and landscape. It argues that farm animals have started to occupy a central position in landscape studies, opening up many new pastures for research. Using the example of cattle in the UK, the AA. consider how
these differences. The article calls for academics, practitioners and policy-makers to pay greater attention to the myriad ways in which livestock and landscape are intertwined.
Biography ; Geographer's role ; Human impact ; Hungary ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Landscape science ; Twentieth Century
Márton Pécsi leading personality of the Hungarian physical geography during the second half of the last century was geomorphologist basically. But he was able to accept, and make use the new results of the landscape research, first of all
the influence of ecology on the landscape science. Some of his conclusions; the relationship between the environmental science and the geography, the human influence on the landscape development, modelling of the landscape processes are valids even today. - (AM)
Sacred structures in the landscape : the case of rural Czechia
Former Czechoslovakia ; Regional identity ; Religious practice ; Rural landscape ; Sacred place ; Semiotics of space ; Sense of belonging ; Typology ; cultural landscape ; regional identity ; religious landscape ; rural Czechia ; sacred structures
landscapes. The paper considers whether sacred structures support the idea of multiple and fundamentally different rural areas. Five types of rural, religious landscapes are identified, supporting the idea that multiple types of rural areas exist in Czechia.
Bibliography ; Geographer's role ; Geomorphology ; Hungary ; Landscape science ; Twentieth Century
Márton Pécsi was one of the outstanding and world famous Hungarian geographers of the twentieth century. His main research activities included geomorphology, quaternary geology and loess chronology, he made a significant contribution to landscape
research, too. He applied systems analysis in his theoretical investigations on landscape and environment and elaborated the concept of the total geographical environment of the society. He played an important role in the preparation of the map of landscape
types of Hungary as well as in the development of the system of landscape classification of the country. His theoretical work provided a good basis for practical applications. The methods for the identification of environmental and landscape potentials
Deep hard coal mining manifests itself in the landscape in a specific way: primarily through anthropogenic landforms and secondarily through land cover changes not directly related to mining activity. This article focuses on the identification
of primary and secondary displays of deep hard coal mining in aerial photos as well as the interpretation of elementary landscape processes that are conditioned by mining. - (EN)
This study compared 2 strategies, including a high-resolution-data-based resampling (RS) approach and a multisource and multiresolution data (MSMRD) approach, to quantify the grain effects of 9 commonly used landscape metrics determined by FRAGSTATS
software. Three adjacent, small watersheds in the central Loess Plateau of China were selected as study sites. Using the RS and MSMRD approaches, 5 and 7 landscape metrics, respectively, were detected to have significant and mostly linear grain effects
. This paper also highlights gaps in present scaling research on landscape metrics by their numerical responses to grain sizes, with the conceptual and mathematical formulations largely neglected.
Eden, Earth Day, and Ecology: Landscape Restoration as Metaphor and Mission
Earth Day ; Ecological restoration ; Ecology ; Eden ; Landscape ; Man-environment relations ; Nature conservation ; Philosophy ; Value system ; Wilderness ; ecology ; landscape restoration
This paper sketches the religious roots of landscape restoration, showing how it morphed from a theological to an environmental agenda, while retaining the fervour of a sacred mission. In the aftermath of Lynn White, Jr.’s ‘Historical Roots of Our
Ecologic Crisis’ (1967) and the Earth Day reform mission (1970), convergent redemptive philosophies realigned ecotheology and landscape restoration along Franciscan lines, shedding commandments to subdue and conquer for injunctions to live in harmony
with nature. Previously condemned as the antithesis of Eden, wilderness was transformed from dreaded chaos into a redemptive realm that led ecological restorers to idealise and worship supposedly virgin scenes. Instead of getting civilised, wild landscapes
and conventions of landscape restoration, widening enduring and unavoidable gulfs between restoration intention and performance, precept and practice.
Linking landscape morphological complexity and sediment connectivity
Connectivity relates to the coupling of landforms (e.g. hillslopes and channels) and the transfer of water and sediment between them. The aim of this study is to understand and quantify the relation between landscape complexity and catchment
connectivity. The AA. hypothesize that connectivity decreases with increasing landscape morphological complexity. To quantify the connectivity–complexity relationship virtual digital elevation models (DEMs) with distinct morphologies were used as inputs
into the landscape evolution model LAPSUS to simulate the sediment connectivity of each landscape. Additionally, the hypothesis was tested on 6 common real DEMs with widely different morphologies. Finally, the effects of different rainfall time series on catchment
management of landscapes and ecosystems through efficiently designed soil and water conservation measures.
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[b2] Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Univ., Wageningen, Pays-Bas
Cree hunters’ observations on resources in the landscape in the context of socio-environmental change in the Eastern James Bay
Animals and the landscape
Amerindians ; Canada ; Climatic change ; Cultural studies ; Enquiry ; Ethnic community ; Hunting ; Landscape ; Living conditions ; Man-environment relations ; Quebec ; Wildlife
The article examines the understanding of Cree hunters in relation to shifts in landscape resources and in particular the availability of two key subsistence wildlife species as a result of climatic and socio-environmental changes
Changes in the extent and occurrence of non-forest woody vegetation in the agricultural landscape of the Novodvorsko and Žehušicko region in the Central Bohemia during the last 60 years are presented in the paper. The extent and changes of non
forest woody vegetation were observed in natural (biochores) and cultural (landscape character areas) units with the aim to find out differences dependent on natural and cultural conditions. Results confirm that the quantity as well as the distribution
Sarcopoterium spinosum from mosaic structure to matrix structure : Impact of calcrete (Nari) on vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid landscape
Calcrete ; Israel ; Landscape ; Landscape structure ; Scrub ; Semi-arid area ; Spatial distribution ; Vegetation
Sarcopoterium spinosum L. (S.p.) is a common type of dwarf shrub in the eastern Mediterranean area. This study focuses on the semi-arid south-western Judean foothills (Shephelah) in Israel, characterized by a hilly landscape with variable coverage
that rock, an abiotic component, plays an important role in this semi-arid landscape. Among the studied components, the relationship between rock and S.p. was found to be the strongest. As rock presence decreases, S.p. distribution increases. The threshold
for S.p. dominance is rock coverage below 14%. The results show that the rock/S.p. ratio controls changes in the landscape structure varying from stable heterogenic mosaic to stable homogeneous S.p. matrix.