Resilience and the Cultural Landscape - Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments (Hardcover, New)

All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural landscape' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. This book brings together these two perspectives, providing new insights into the social-ecological resilience of cultural landscapes by coming to terms with, and challenging, the concepts of 'driving forces', 'thresholds', 'adaptive cycles' and 'adaptive management'. By linking these research communities, this book develops a new perspective on landscape changes. Based on firm conceptual contributions and rich case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, it will appeal to anyone interested in analysing and managing change in human-shaped environments in the context of sustainability.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	December 2012
Editors:	Tobias Plieninger (Head of Ecosystem Services Research Group) • Claudia Bieling (Researcher)
Dimensions:	253 x 181 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	366
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02078-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
LSN:	1-107-02078-6
Barcode:	9781107020788

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