Landscape sensitivity in time and space - an introduction
Landscape sensitivity : principles and applications in northern cool temperate environments
Concept ; Environment ; Inherited features ; Landscape ; Model ; Scale ; Sensitivity analysis ; Spatial variation
Landscape sensitivity may be discussed in terms of the response of landscape systems to pertubation on different time and spatial scales. Although we are increasingly able to model the present, environmental management is dominantly about conserving
inherited properties of landscapes : forests, soils, floodplains, coastlines. Landscape sensitivity for landscape management must, therefore, adress not only active, largely nonlinear, environmental systems, but also the mosaics and palimpsests
Fractal analysis is now a growing field of research and an extensive literature concerned with the fractal nature of landscapes is developing. This paper summarizes fractal and related theories and reviews the last decade's research on the fractal
The AA. intend to consider phenomenological as well as statistical thermodynamic landscape models. From maps, the entropy of various landscapes will be calculated according to the two types of models mentioned and conclusions will be drawn regarding
The customary view of the landscape and of landscape processes emphasizes regularity. In this paper, two examples of probabilistic irregularity are presented : 1) the soil-covered landscape as a sample function of a Gaussian field| 2) variable
This paper presents the cultural landscape as an abstract concept and the result of a complex relationship between the natural environment and human society, and at the same time as a result of comprehension and personal views. A landscape
is a story about the people that created it. The theoretical part establishes parallels between a landscape and the stories that this landscape has generated as well as their connection with geographical knowledge. This is followed by stories about real
and imagined landscapes from Slovenian Istria, as ascertained through an analysis of extensive material using the ATLAS.ti software and taking into account the principles of grounded theory. This approaches a holistic view of the landscape, or understanding
the landscape as a system of material and non-material elements and processes that direct them. - (IKR)
Hungary ; Landscape ; Landscape evaluation ; Region ; Typology
This study focuses on the comparison of landscape regions and types, evaluating each microregion according to the number of landscape types occuring within its boundary. The evaluation is performed on the basis of scores assigned to each region
depending both on the number and the category of landscape types (i. e. if there are ecotopes belonging to different types or even to different macrotypes, the scores are higher than for ecotopes belonging to the same landscape type). - (ZK)
Real places: an unconventional guide to America's generic landscapes
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Perception ; Place ; Rural landscape ; United States of America ; Urban landscape
Terse, incisive vignettes on the gamut of permanent and ephemeral phenomena found in the rural and urban landscapes of the USA at a variety of scales. Among the 120 entries are: airspace, bioregion, boondocks, disaster area, no smoking area, porno
Slovenia is a country of exceptionally diverse landscapes at the intersection of four major European macroregions: the Alpine, Pannonian, Dinaric, and Mediterranean regions. Terraces, which are a characteristic Mediterranean landscape element, occur
in all landscape types, but they vary in terms of density, purpose, and current function. Terraces, which define the most characteristic terraced landscape, are most common in the Mediterranean environment. - (L'A.).
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.
A 80 éves N. A. Szolncev szovjet tajkutato munkassaga. (Activity of 80-year old N. A. Solntsev, Soviet landscape researcher)
Scientific achievements based on expeditions cover the theory of landscape, landscape analyses on plains, landscape structure and dynamics. He emphasized the cyclic nature of landscape processes. (DLO).
The A. discusses the application of landscape ecological principles to a specific and pressing issue: nature reserve design and functioning. He reviews 5 landscape ecological themes with relevance to reserve design and management. He studies
: the role that landscape ecological theories may have in integrating existing principles from applied biogeography and population biology; the unique insights provided by a landscape ecological approach. Finally, he argues that biogeographers need to be more
active in the development and advancement of landscape ecological theory.
Exploring local rural landscape changes in Denmark : a human-environmental timeline perspective
Agricultural land use ; Agriculture ; Denmark ; Farm ; Landscape dynamics ; Man-environment relations ; Rural landscape
The paper investigates land use changes in a rural landscape with contrasting biophysical potential for agricultural production in western Denmark in a 136 year period (1870-2006). The purpose is to explore links between drivers of landscape change
and observed changes during this period as well as to document the spatial variability of landscape changes. The environmental history of rural landscape is examined in order to highlight the co-evolution of the land use dynamics and major socio-economic
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
Two theories exist relating to preferences for landscapes : 1)preferences are innate ; 2)preferences are determined by culture. The AA. evaluate relationships among preferences for landscapes and childhood landscapes. Results are based
on a questionnaire sent out to 2000 people in Sweden, and on a qualitative study comprising 19 people. In conclusion, people prefer landscapes experienced during childhood, but seem to attach more easily to qualities that are suggested to have an innate significance.
Two cases of dramatic landscape change, in the contrastinggeographies and political contexts of New Zealand and Palestine, are presented. The first example is located within a benign context and the other in an area of extreme conflict. Nonetheless
in both cases the changes described have striking visible impact on the landscape and significant flow-on effects, some of them intangible and unquantifiable, on the well-being of the people who inhabit these landscapes. These cases present the two ends
of a spectrum in which the hypothesis of a world landscape convention inspired by the ELC is relevant.
Concept ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Custom ; England ; Ideology ; Landscape ; Landscape esthetics ; Place ; Territorial identity
This study of the evolving meaning of a key geographical term advocates a substantive (real rather than apparent) conception of landscape. A substantive concept of landscape is more concerned with social law and justice than with natural law
or aesthetics. The A. seeks to recover this meaning of landscape through an historical and geographical analysis of the transformations of meanings undergone by the concepts of landscape and nature.