Sociallandscape metrics : measures for understanding place values from public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS)
Geographical information system ; Landscape ; Landscape ecology ; Landscape structure ; Metrics ; PPGIS ; Participation ; Perception ; Sociallandscape ; Social metrics ; landscape perception ; place values ; public participation
Ecologie du paysage ; Métrique ; Participation ; Paysage ; Paysage social ; Perception ; Structure du paysage ; Système d'information géographique
The AA. introduce the concept of sociallandscape metrics that quantify human perceptions of place resulting from the use of PPGIS. They present and explain a set of sociallandscape metrics that measure the composition and configuration of human
perceptions of landscapes from multiple study areas using empirical data from PPGIS studies. They distinguish between two classes, present methods to develop them, and describe some of their applications to land use planning and management.
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
Alentejo ; Identité territoriale ; Lieu ; Localité ; Paysage rural ; Portugal ; Vie sociale
Identidad territorial ; Localidad ; Lugar ; Paisaje rural ; Portugal ; Vida social
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.
Development of industry and economy and landscape changes in Czechoslovakia during socialism
The study deals with the relation between economic and industrial development and changes of the landscape with particular regard to agricultural and forest landscape in the period of socialist industrialization in Czechoslovakia. (MS).
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.
Early attempts to embellish the countryside and preserve ancient monuments are mentioned and followed by an explanation of the changed aims of landscape protection and preservation under the influence of technical-industrial and social development
, and the consequent stimuli to change the spatial structure. The new laws since 1970 for the choosing and delimination of landscape protection areas and of natural and national parks are stated, together with suggestions for future care and development. Landscape
planning based on ecology is becoming increasingly important all over the F.R.G. It is persued in connection with protection, preservation and development measures necessary, taking into consideration the individual characteristics of the landscape
Are There Counter-Landscapes? On Milk Trestles and Invisible Power Lines
Estonia ; Ideology ; Landscape polities ; Peasantry ; Power ; Resistance to change ; Rural landscape ; Social geography ; Social practice ; Soviet collective farming ; contested landscapes ; ethnographic field work
Bidon de lait ; Estonie ; Géographie sociale ; Idéologie ; Paysage rural ; Paysannerie ; Pouvoir ; Pratique sociale ; Résistance au changement ; Tréteau
Campesinado ; Estonia ; Geografía social ; Ideología ; Paisaje rural ; Poder ; Práctica social ; Resistencia al cambio
The paper takes its starting point from the duality in the Estonian rural landscape shaped by social practices. On the one hand, the changes and management of landscapes follow a political decision. At the same time, the old patterns of semi-legal
—their functions, meanings and the values behind this symbol. The article is based on ethnographic field work carried out between the years of 2001 and 2002 and traces the phenomenon of how living landscape transforms into deserted landscape; in other words, how
story becomes history. The paper shows how the milk trestle landscape functioned as a prolongation of the former landscape behind the ideological layers of the Soviet landscapes.
[b1] Centre for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University
Art ; Civilisation ; Culturel ; Géographie humaine ; Inde ; Paysage culturel ; Structure sociale ; Symbolique de l'espace ; Tradition
Author suggests that two different social orders in Indian civilization, one in the North and the other in the Dravidian South, account for two distinctive ways of experiencing place and that these are manifested in the landscapes of India. - (DWG)
Colonialism and landscape in the Americas : material/conceptual transformations and continuing consequences
America ; Colonialism ; Determinism ; Epistemology ; Landscape ; Landscape ecology ; Man-environment relations ; Theory
landscape transformation have changed over the last century in relation to social and environmental context. Prior and existing conceptualizations of colonialism and landscape are compared and contrasted. All of them jointly delineate what a more
A comprehensive geographic theory of colonialism and landscape remains incipient. In the article, a historical sketch provides somebasic perspective on the scope appropriate to such a theory by outlining how the goals of scolarship on colonial
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
is not exclusively individual but rather rooted in social and material interaction with other people and the environment.
. Latent class segmentations identified four segments, with different preferences for natural, managerial and sociallandscape features. While a preference for a more complex, mysterious and natural landscape was found for three segments, one segment
Effects of depopulation, farm family income and changes in agricultural practices, etc. have resulted in the abandonment or destruction of traditional mountainous landscapes. An image-based stated choice survey was applied to explore the effects
of various landscape change processes on the preferences of a mostly urban sample (N = 410). The 128 digitally generated landscape scenarios represented various kinds and intensities of agricultural and tourism use of a historic terraced area in Austria
preferred more open landscapes. The results indicate that landscape change can affect humans in different ways, and that evolutionary and cultural preference theories are useful in explaining landscape preferences.
[b1] BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria and Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning, Vienna, Austria
[b2] BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria and Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning, Vienna, Austria
Agricultural employment ; Agricultural landscape ; California ; Enclosure ; England ; Germany ; Hegemony ; Landscape ; Nationalism ; Perception ; Phenomenology ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Trade unionism ; United Kingdom ; United States of America
Allemagne ; California ; Chose ; Clôture ; Emploi agricole ; England ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie sociale ; Hégémonie ; Lake District ; Nationalisme ; Pauvreté ; Paysage ; Paysage agricole ; Perception ; Phénoménologie ; Royaume-Uni ; Syndicalisme
Alemaña ; California ; Empleo agrícola ; Estados Unidos ; Geografía social ; Inglaterra ; Nacionalismo ; Paisaje ; Percepción ; Pobreza ; Reino Unido ; Sindicalismo
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.
Landscapes and Narratives : Compositions and the Walking Body
Routing Landscape : Ethnographic Studies of Movement and Journey
Human body ; Landscape ; Social geography
Absence ; Corps humain ; Géographie sociale ; Marche à pied ; Marcheur ; Paysage ; Présence
Cuerpo humano ; Geografía social ; Paisaje
This paper explores how landscapes are narrated through the activity of walking. It follows the footsteps of walkers as they traverse different kinds of terrains in different circumstances and aims to examine how the walking body and the landscape
as entwined entities shape each other. The focus is on narrative compositions and how they appear in the landscape through the course of walking. The paper starts by exploring two different types of compositions and then analyses how walking narratives
are composed through the connections and disconnections of the walking body with the surroundings, creating a narrative landscape of absences and presences.
Philosophical concerns about restoring landscapes often revolve around two, connected, issues. First is the idea that a restored lanscape, even if it is a perfect replica, has lost some of its value. The second problem highlighted in philosophical
debates is that the greater the success of restoration projects, the more threatened natural landscapes become. The A. discusses two opposing potential responses to these claims : that humans are part of nature and thus cannot be an alien dominating force
outside of nature; and that nature is itself a social construct.
Zu einigen Problemen der Landschaftsbewertung für die Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftspflege. (On some problems concerning landscape evaluating for the purpose of landscape planning and environmental control)
The problems involved in the transformation of natural features into indicators reflecting social requirements and interferences are expressed, based on information from literature and experience gained by the author while he cooperated
in the working out of a landscape evaluation procedure. The basic classes of landscape evaluation algorithms are sketched and conclusions on the state of the art are presented.
Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Methodology ; Software ; Theory
In the last decades, the belief that landscape is not merely a material reality, but also a social and cultural document in which people play a key role, has come to the forefront. Standard landscape analyses have thus had to be improved through
qualitative analyses, which enable the study of meanings and social concepts of landscape, the mechanisms of comprehending landscape and its variation, as well as landscape dynamics. This article presents the study of landscape using an analysis of literary
The lie of the land: migrant workers and the California landscape
Agriculture ; California ; Conflit du travail ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie historique ; Géographie sociale ; Migration de travail ; Siècle 20
Agriculture ; California ; Historical geography ; Labour dispute ; Labour migration ; Social geography ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America
Polemic in tone, this is a social geography of labor conflict in California agriculture in the first half of the twentieth century. The landscape in the title does not reflect the book's content. - (DWG)
An integrated landscape research concerns not only an interdisciplinary cooperation in study of man-land interaction, but first of all, the connection of regional management with information systems for landscape. Geography provides, using
the cartographical presentation and computer processing a purposive information system for management organisation with respect to social needs and land protection. (MS).
The M´zab valley and the autonomous and premodern M´zab (c.1000-1882), exceptional urban construction and a “lesson in architecture”;nationalization, modernization and globalization of the M´zab;problems of safeguarding cultural landscapes