Landscape Interfaces: Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes

408 Pages·2003·10.423 MB·English

by  Hannes Palang, Gary Fry (auth.), Hannes Palang, Gary Fry (eds.)

LANDSCAPE INTERFACES
Landscape series
VOLUME 1
Series Editors:
Henri Decamps,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Toulouse, France
Barbel Tress,
Alterra Green World Research,
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Gunther Tress,
Alterra Green World Research,
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Aims & Scope:
The Landscape Series publishes manuscripts approaching landscape from a broad perspective.
Landscapes are home and livelihood for people, house historic artefacts, and comprise systems
of physical, chemical and biological processes. Landscapes are shaped and governed by
human societies, who base their existence on the use of the natural resources. People enjoy the
aesthetic qualities of landscapes and their recreational facilities, and design new landscapes.
The Landscape Series aims to add new and innovative insights into landscapes. It encourages
contributions on theory development as well as applied studies, which may act as best practice.
Problem-solving approaches and contributions to planning and management of landscape are
most welcome. The Landscape Series wishes to attract outstanding studies from the natural
sciences, social sciences, humanities as well as the arts and does especially provide a forum
for publications resulting from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary acting teams. Ideally,
the contributions help the application of findings from landscape research to practice, and to
feed back again from practice into research.
LANDSCAPE
INTERFACES
Cultural Heritage in
Changing Landscapes
Edited by
Hannes Palang
University of Tartu,
Estonia
and
Gary Fry
Norwegian Agricultural University,
Norway
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
A C.LP. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-6348-9 ISBN 978-94-017-0189-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0189-1
Printed on acid-free paper
Cover photograph by Barbel Tress and Gunther Tress
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Foreword by the series editors
When initiating this book series, it was our most prominent motivation to
provide a forum for dealing with the complex and challenging variety of
landscapes. The series should bring to the fore the positive and connective
aspects of dealing with this variety instead of seeing them as barriers and
separating elements. Yet there is not only the variety of the landscapes as
such, but also the multiplicity of academic disciplines and approaches that
characterize the study of landscapes. We also intended to provide examples
of integration of academic knowledge cultures on one topic, rather than
having different volumes presenting knowledge from different disciplines.
'Landscape Interfaces' , the first volume of the series, mirrors this
intention excellently. It is a book that embraces the variety in landscape
research. Instead of understanding 'interfaces' as areas where contrasting,
opposing or diverging elements clash, Palang and Fry understood and
interpreted 'interfaces' as the area where two elements meet and can be
integrated for their common benefit. Interfaces are many in landscapes and
landscape research: between different academic disciplines, experts and
laypersons, cultures, past and future, time and space. These interfaces are
discussed in relation to cultural heritage management in changing landscapes
in different geographical localities. We hope that this book gives all who are
interested in the management of cultural heritage - students as well as
professionals - the opportunity to be inspired by the multiplicity of
approaches that are presented and the subjects that are discussed.
Toulouse and Wageningen, May 2003
Henri Decamps
Barbel Tress
Gunther Tress
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Contents
Contributing Authors Xl
Preface xv
1. Landscape interfaces
Hannes Palang & Gary Fry
2. Landscape: ecology and semiosis 15
Denis Cosgrove
3. The concept of cultural landscape: discourse and narratives 21
Michael Jones
4. A comparative study on trees and hedgerows in Japan and
England 53
Katsue Fukamachi, Hirokazu Oku & Oliver Rackham
5. Transformations of cultural landscape: the case of the
Polish-Ukrainian borderland 71
Ewa Skowronek, Renata Krukowska & Andrzej Swieca
6. The role of cultural values in modem landscapes:
the Flemish example 91
Marc Antrop
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7. Shaping the future of a cultural landscape:
the Douro Valley wine region 109
Teresa Andresen & Maria Jose Curado
8. Cultural and historical values in landscape planning:
locals' perception 125
Helen Alumae, Anu Printsmann & Hannes Palang
9. Stakeholder landscapes and GIS: institutional visions of
landscape and sustainability in the management of the
Sherwood Natural Area, UK 147
Robert Fish, Roy Haines-Young & Jorge Rubiano
10. An aboriginal planning initiative: sacred knowledge and
landscape suitability analysis 163
Margot Cantwell & Chad W. Adams
11. Communicating landscape development plans through scenario
visualization techniques 185
Barbel Tress & Gunther Tress
12. Historical cadastral maps as a tool for valuation of to day's
landscape elements 221
Stein Tage Domaas, Ingvild Austad, Jan Anders Timberlid &
Ann Norderhaug
13. From objects to landscapes in natural and cultural heritage
management: a role for landscape interfaces 237
Gary Fry
14. Landscape archaeology and management of ancient cultural
heritage sites: Some notes based on Finnish experiences 255
Paivi Maaranen
15. Pressure on the fringe of the cities 273
Grete Swensen
16. 'The long chain': archaeology, historical landscape
characterization and time depth in the landscape 295
Graham Fairclough
17. Authenticity in landscape conservation and management -
the importance of the local context 319
Roland Gustavsson & Anna Peterson
Landscape interfaces IX
18. Combining approaches in landscape research: the case of
Saaremaa, Estonia 357
Helen Sooviili, Hannes Palang, Egle Kaur, Tiina PeU &
Irmine Vermandere
19. Landscape - a matter of identity and integrity: towards sound
knowledge, awareness and involvement 375
Jan Diek van Mansvelt & Bas Pedroli
20. Learning from Tartu - towards post-postmodern landscapes 395
Jussi S. Jauhiainen
Contributing Authors
Chad W. Adams is an environmental planner and landscape architect
with Andropogon Associates, Ltd. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Helen Alumae is PhD student at the Institute of Geography, University
of Tartu, Estonia. She also works as an editor for the journal Eesti
LooduslEstonian Nature.
Teresa Andresen is associate professor in the School of Sciences at the
Oporto University, Portugal, in the Landscape Architecture program. She is
co-author of the Douro inscription in the World Heritage List.
Marc Antrop is professor of geography at the Ghent University,
Belgium.
Invild Austad works as professor of landscape ecology at the Faculty of
Science, Sogn og Fjordane University College in Sogndal, Norway. She is
also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Margot Cantwell is the president of EDM - Environmental Design and
Management, Ltd. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Denis Cosgrove is the Alexander von Humboldt professor in geography
at the University of California Los Angeles, USA.
Maria Jose Curado is landscape architect and PhD candidate at the
University of A veiro, Portugal.
Stein Tage Domaas is PhD student at the Department of Landscape
Planning at the Swedish Agricultural University in Alnarp, Sweden. He
works as a research fellow at the Faculty of Science, Sogn og Fjordane
University College in Sogndal, Norway.
Graham Fairclough is an archaeologist working in English Heritage,
one of the UK's four national heritage boards. He is currently head of EH's
Characterisation Team.
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