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Transdisciplinary and arts-centred approaches to stewardship and sustainability of urban nature Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lindsay K. Campbell, Chris Fremantle, David Maddox, Erika Svendsen, Sarah Hines, Mary Mattingly, Matthew López-Jensen, Nikki Lindt, Liza Paqueo, Michelle Johnson
This paper explores case studies of how artists working with scientists and land managers affiliated with the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program (UFS Arts) are fostering new relations o...
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Looking beneath the surface: associations between varied outdoor surfaces and children’s diverse play behaviours in early childhood education and care institutions Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rune Storli, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Ole Johan Sando
This study assumes that surfaces in outdoor environments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions exert an important influence on children’s play diversity. Gibson (1979) claims th...
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Landscape multifunctionality, agroecology, and smallholders: a socio-ecological case study of the Cuban agroecological transition Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Mario Reinaldo Machado, Marc Healy
After the fall of the USSR, Cuba was plunged into an economic crisis with devastating effects on the agricultural system. With few options, the government restructured its agricultural system from ...
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Voices in a contested landscape: community participation and upland management in the North York Moors National Park Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Thomas Ratcliffe
The moorland plateau is the defining landscape of the North York Moors National Park in England. It reflects the everyday management decisions of land managers and the complex web of power relation...
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TriWadWalks: enriching knowledge and understanding through immersive engagement with the Wadden Sea landscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Annet Kempenaar, Birthe Menke, Michael Fink, Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt, Janne Liburd, Cormac Walsh, Ingo Mose, Elen Trell, Frans Sijtsma, Ilaria Palermo, Ilse van Dijk
This photo essay reports on two TriWadWalks, which were 5-day landscape explorations into the Wadden Sea region of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. These walks were organised by six universit...
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Finding changes within protected habitats: an assessment of landscape characteristics using geospatial techniques in the lower Shivalik landscape of the Western Himalayas Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Tamali Mondal, Dinesh Chandra Bhatt, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
A GIS-based approach was used in this study to assess 10 years of land-use change in the lower Shivalik landscape of the Western Himalayas, India. The landscape encompasses two major protected area...
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Latent potential? Searching for environmental justice in South African landscape architecture praxis Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Dayle L. Shand, Christina A. Breed
Landscape architecture is not formally affiliated with environmental justice in South Africa. This is concerning given that the country is the most socio-economically unequal worldwide and that loc...
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Examining city image construction through the lens of linguistic soundscape: a case analysis of Shenzhen Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ruilin Zheng, Jing Luo, Shangguo Lu
The study examined the role of linguistic soundscape in constructing city image. Previous studies paid inadequate attention to linguistic soundscape, an important branch of linguistic landscape. Th...
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Buddhist heritage landscape evolution of Mount Wutai: a path dependence approach Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Wenhui Wang, Zixian Lu, Zhuting Zhang, Jianqin Zhou, Zhiqiang Gong
An adequate understanding about the evolutionary process, mechanism and influencing factors of cultural landscapes is crucial for their efficient preservation and sustainable development. The theor...
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Pungryu: transcendent ways of seeing landscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Hae-Joon Jung
This study investigates the Korean practice of pungryu, a unique way of appreciating landscapes intertwining aesthetic enjoyment with spiritual and philosophical pursuits. Pungryu, deeply rooted in...
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Creating change: exploring the merit, mechanism, and necessity of artistic research in addressing ecological crises Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jake Eshelman
Among the many complementary forms of knowledge-making, the artistic practice plays an essential, yet often overlooked role in influencing ecologically oriented decision-making. In my own ongoing v...
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A study on the fusion of musical theme landscape and soundscape in Hefei Feicui Lake scenic spot, China Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Su Wang, Qingqing Xiao
The health of the urban public can be promoted by shaping ecological landscapes and reducing noise. Visual landscapes and soundscape, considered as important components of sustainable urban develop...
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Reconstructing the unknown: an integrated and multisource description of Albanian landscape transformations since the 1850s Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fabrizio Aimar
This paper aims to reconstruct the Albanian rural landscape through qualitative, diachronic, and multisource interpretations from the mid-19th century until 2022. For the first time, the data suita...
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Making Sense of Here: revealing multiple narratives of place through artistic process and integrating art and artists into transdisciplinary research Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Harriet Fraser, Rob Fraser
The celebrated English Lake District, a national park and World Heritage Site, embraces complexity and tension. In landscape decision-making, farmers, landowners, policy makers, ecologists, residen...
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Where tourism fails: the (un)making of a post-working landscape in the Italian Alps Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Alessandro Rippa
This paper develops the notion of post-working landscape to describe how labour, largely no longer performed, continues to shape how local communities understand their landscape in two Alpine valle...
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How can place support pedagogy? Application of the concept of cognitive affordances in research and design of outdoor learning environments Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Matluba Khan, Sarah McGeown, Beth Christie, Simon Bell
This paper adopts an ecological approach to describe the opportunities offered by school landscape for children’s curricular learning. The approach is based on Gibson’s concept of affordances which...
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Persistence and change Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Hannes Palang
Published in Landscape Research (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The use of old demarcations to recover vanished landscapes: a case study in Doñana (SW Spain) Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 José Carlos Muñoz-Reinoso
This study emphasises the value of surveys, demarcations, and boundary delimitations in uncovering vanished landscapes and understanding the origins of present ecosystems, with a particular focus o...
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People and places: towards an understanding and categorisation of reasons for place attachment – case studies from the north of England Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Martina Tenzer, John Schofield
People develop a sense of place, belonging and identity when a place affords tangible and intangible benefits like security, familiarity, shelter, food, work opportunities, and social interaction. ...
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Gardens of conflict: the military role of Islamic and Byzantine gardens Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Ali Abderezaei, Armin Bahramian
Despite recent strides in the exploration of gardens within formal, functional, and symbolic dimensions, the link between gardens and warfare remains an overlooked facet in the realm of garden and ...
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Evaluating forest landscape management for ecosystem integrity Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Brendan Mackey, Edward Morgan, Heather Keith
Protecting forest ecosystems is a critical action for addressing both the climate and biodiversity crises. Effective long-term management of forests requires landscape approaches, but evaluating th...
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Care’s repair, landscape’s labor Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Michelle Arevalos Franco
In contemporary landscape discourse, an ethic of care is grounded in caring for the earth. This ecological agenda is the basis for which we indirectly provision human needs. It is not yet care that...
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Regional-scale cultural conservation planning and policy in the United States: an appeal for improvement Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lacey Goldberg, Mallika Bose
Pennsylvania’s (PA) processes and policies for landscape-scale cultural and visual resource conservation are lacking. In PA, like much of the United States (US), landscape change policies are presc...
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Third space pedagogy and community-based park design in Austin, Texas Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Bjørn Sletto, Samira Binte Bashar, Frances Acuña
The complex, diverse, and embodied nature of Latin(o/a/x) placemaking calls for place-based pedagogy that foregrounds intimate learning outside the confines of the classroom. A ‘third space’ approa...
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Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Rebecca Hamilton, Josephine Gillespie, Dan Penny, Shane Ingrey, Scott Mooney
Australian conservation targets commonly focus on preserving a vaguely defined ecological baseline, often conceptualised as a pre-European, ‘natural’ state. For instance, environmental legislation ...
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The past, present, and future of nature and place-based interventions for human health Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Francesca Boyd, Camilla Allen, Jake M. Robinson, Nicole Redvers
The benefits of exposure to nature for human health and wellbeing have been evidenced throughout history and across global civilisations. However, research on nature and place-based interventions f...
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A systematic review of planning principles for green infrastructure in response to urban stormwater management Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Linfeng Huang
With global warming and increasing urbanisation, cities are at significant risk of problems associated with stormwater. Green infrastructure (GI), a stormwater management tool in use worldwide, can...
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The spiritual forest: an ethnographic exploration of Finnish forest yoga and the forest landscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä, Lotta Leiwo, Hannu Linkola, Jenni Rinne
This article discusses the Finnish forest yoga phenomenon, which incorporates contemporary spiritual discourses on nature, landscape, ‘the self’ and gender. We scrutinise ethnographic fieldwork mat...
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Landscapes of care: politics, practices, and possibilities Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Sara Jacobs, Taryn Wiens
Care offers a framework to shift relations with land and suggest alternative possibilities to dominant, and often extractive, landscape practices. With increasing attention to inequities in labour,...
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Successful conservation of United States Department of Defense Lands: Response to Emily Rabung & Eric Toman (2022), Soldiers in the garden: managing the US military training landscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Alan D. Schultz, Richard A. Fischer, Robert E. Lovich, David K. McNaughton, Elizabeth S. Neipert, Christopher E. Petersen, Vanessa Shoblock, Michael Wright
The National Military Fish & Wildlife Association (NMFWA) presents a rebuttal to the article by Rabung and Toman (2022) on the management of United States Department of Defense (DoD) Lands. Publish...
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The complex management of military lands: Response to Alan D. Schultz et al. Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Emily Rabung, Eric Toman
A tremendous amount of effort is put towards managing the natural resources found on United States Department of Defense (DoD) properties in ways that are both very different from and very similar ...
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Navigating tradition and modernity: a study of cultural influences and the contemporary state of Nigerian public spaces Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Temitope Muyiwa Adebara
Culture is an essential component of Indigenous public spaces. However, a gap in knowledge exists regarding cultural influences on Indigenous public spaces in Africa. This paper, therefore, explore...
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Multispecies stories of Vardø: an Arctic place in change Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ida Højlund Rasmussen
The speed of climate change calls our attention towards the life forms on this warming Earth – human and beyond. In this article, I aim to contribute to the conversation about how we co-exist by pr...
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A value chain approach towards managing sustainable productive urban landscape in Egypt Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Dalia Sayed Basyouni Salem, Ahmed Mohamed Amin, Sherin Ali Gammaz
Productive urban landscapes (PULs) offer a promising solution to address pressing challenges such as urbanisation, food and water scarcity, and climate change. Despite their potential, PULs have no...
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Urban park visitor perceptions of climate change: beliefs, concerns and support for action Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Hongchao Zhang, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Lisa Groshong, Mark Morgan
This study examined urban park visitors’ concerns, beliefs, decision to visit, and support for management actions regarding climate change. A questionnaire was administered to 429 visitors at three...
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Poetry, paths, and peatlands: integrating poetic inquiry within landscape heritage research Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Abbi Flint
On the first page of The making of the English landscape, W.G. Hoskins states that ‘poets make the best topographers’. This speaks to the long-standing expression of human feelings, understandings,...
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Revolution and continuity? Reassessing nineteenth-century moorland reclamation through palaeoecological and archival research Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Leonard Baker, Francis M. Rowney, Henry French, Ralph M. Fyfe
The upland moorlands of Britain are environmentally and culturally important ecosystems. Yet, our understanding of historical attempts to ‘reclaim’ these landscapes is often based upon incomplete a...
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The effect of urban greenspace on adolescent sleep patterns Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Dimitris I. Tsomokos, Dongying Ji, Marie A. E. Mueller, Efstathios Papachristou, Eirini Flouri
We investigated the effects of long-term greenspace deprivation on sleep during adolescence. Using data from a UK birth cohort, we studied deviations from age-recommended sleep duration through Tim...
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Post-reconstruction enclosures: an infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar) Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Mela Žuljević, Giulia Carabelli
Abstract This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge. The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism. We explore a landscape perspective to reflect on the aftermath
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Sacralisations of nature beyond church-based religion in modern western societies Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Thomas Kirchhoff
In environmental ethics and landscape research, sacralisations of nature have commonly been considered in the context of so-called nature religions or ethnic religions of traditional societies. How...
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Towards landscape conscience: a geographical perspective Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Evangelos Pavlis, Theano S. Terkenli
This article aims to show the reciprocal significance of space to human conscience and vice versa. We argue that human conscience is equally founded on external, spatial relations rather than stric...
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A shifting role for the landscape practitioner: bridging the divide between ecology, horticulture and landscape architecture Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Anna Lena Hahn
This article looks at the ecological turn in the landscape professions and argues that such a shift requires a new conception of the role of the landscape practitioner: Drawing on ecology and pheno...
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Decentring landscape: rethinking landscape analysis with a relational ontology Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Mattias Qviström
Landscape theory has frequently been used as a base for scrutinising landscape characterisation and landscape analysis. However, this paper argues that if we aim to understand action-oriented metho...
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Cross-cultural Rongoā healing: a landscape response to urban health Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Bruno Marques, Jacqueline McIntosh, Celia Hall
The growing interest in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous worldviews has refocused attention on land and resource management systems as well as local knowledge of flora and faun...
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Sacral waters and the jewel mountain: reclaiming kunds in Ayodhya, India Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Amita Sinha, Rajat Kant, Ankit Yadav
Abstract Water structures are sites of collective memory and have a vital role in providing ecosystem services in India. An alternative model of water sensitive urban design based upon the conceptual framework of regenerative urbanism is proposed in Ayodhya, a pilgrim town in Northern India. Reclamation of water bodies is salient to planning the soft infrastructure of blue-greenways for regenerating
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Taranto: a flickering landscape of illusory progress, vanished hope, and invisible beauty Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Stefania Benetti, Simone Gamba, Marco Grasso
The article investigates the difficult and controversial landscape of Taranto, a recently industrialised city of southern Italy, which in the last 70 years has undergone dramatic changes. We analys...
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Heritage contestation in matterscape, mindscape, and powerscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Maarten Jacobs, Floor Huisman, Maria de Wit, Roy van Beek
Landscape heritage is frequently contested as perspectives on heritage and landscape may vary across stakeholders. The present article makes a novel contribution by examining pathways to landscape ...
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Heritage itineraries and the ‘rest state’ at Europe’s Cold War-era Ground-launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) sites Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Simona Bravaglieri, John Schofield
Abstract Cold War legacies pose significant challenges for heritage management and interpretation at landscape scale. This paper explores an area where management and interpretation overlap, in terms of how postcolonial attitudes usually require something to be done with these sites. We argue that this need not be the case and that a ‘rest state’ can be an important stage in a site’s lifecycle. We
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Typologising site-specific features in young industrial landscapes Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Johanne Heesche, Gertrud Jørgensen, Ellen Marie Braae
Abstract Young industrial landscapes (YILs), dating roughly from the 1930s to 1970s, are by virtue of their location, size, and partly underused capacity potential new locations for urban redevelopment driven by municipalities and private investors. However, such redevelopment often neglects existing physical characteristics including heritage and ecological potentials. This paper raises awareness
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Co-design workshops for cultural landscape planning Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Marta Ducci, Ron Janssen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Francesco Rotondo
In the last twenty years, citizen participation has become a formal requirement in landscape and heritage planning all over Europe. The European Landscape Convention (2000), in particular, encourag...
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The landscape of utopia: writings on everyday life, taste, democracy, and design Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Lucía Jalón Oyarzun
Published in Landscape Research (Vol. 48, No. 7, 2023)
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Relational heritage: ‘relational character’ in national cultural heritage characterisation tools Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Sofie Stilling, Ellen Braae
Abstract The need to better care for the urban landscape as a cultural, material and regenerative resource is urgent and inevitable. From a planning and design perspective, national heritage characterisation tools currently constitute an explicit point of departure for attributing value to existing urban landscapes, which informs decisions about physical transformations. This qualitative and integrative
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Twenty years of research on shrinking cities: a focus on keywords and authors Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Jung-Eun Lee, Yunmi Park, Galen D. Newman
Abstract Most scholarly attention to vanishing cities is fairly recent so, to guide future research, a comprehensive evaluation of prior findings is required. This study is a network analysis of 333 publications authored in English, published over the last two decades. The findings are as follows: (1) shrinking city research has increased significantly since 2016; (2) the key themes are planning, decline
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Transcending the nostalgic: landscapes of postindustrial Europe beyond representation Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Janis Hanley
Published in Landscape Research (Vol. 48, No. 7, 2023)
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Reproducing biocultural heritage landscapes through alternative and retro-innovative food production Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Eva Svensson, Margareta Dahlström, Hilde Rigmor Amundsen, Marius Kjønsberg
Abstract Landscapes rich in biocultural heritage are declining en masse across Europe. This is due to the effects of countryside depopulation and to large-scale, industrial agriculture. Landscape heritage and its associated biodiversity largely depend on pre-industrial agrarian management. Because authoritative conservation cares only for minor, more spectacular, landscape segments, other forms of
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The evolution and impacts of ‘complexity notions’ in landscape architecture Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Jingyi Liu, Menghan Zhang
Abstract Complexity notions, i.e. ideas or methods that incorporate concepts and rationales from complexity science as analogies or models, frequently appear in landscape architectural discourses. However, debates have arisen about the legitimacy and relevance of complexity notions in landscape architecture. Are complexity notions an ephemeral fashion or derived from the inherent needs of landscape
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Developments in big data for park management: a review of mobile phone location data for visitor use management Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Peter Whitney, William L. Rice, Jeremy Sage, Jennifer M. Thomsen, Iree Wheeler, Wayne Freimund, Elena Bigart
Abstract Land managers and public agencies strive to manage parks and protected areas (PPAs) for a balance between the preservation of ecological health and the visitor experience. To fulfill this dual mandate, an understanding of recreationist visitation patterns in PPAs is vital. Mobile phones, passively capturing location data while in use throughout our daily lives, represent a significant opportunity
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Landscape dynamics of the aeolian savanna: Santos Luzardo National Park 1988–2018 Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Georgina Navarro-González, Anderson Albarrán, Eulogio Chacón-Moreno
Abstract This research defines the savanna aeolian landscape dynamics of the ‘Santos Luzardo’ National Park in the Llanos of Venezuela between 1988 and 2018, using images from the LANDSAT series to elaborate and compare ecosystems maps. The ecosystem dynamics show that the landscape changes naturally since the transitions occurred towards other types of natural savanna due to soil water seasonality
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The geography of pilgrimage: Adriatic maritime pilgrimages and natural features of the landscape Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Mario Katić, Ante Blaće
Abstract In this article, we have analysed how natural features influenced the emergence of maritime pilgrimages in the Eastern Adriatic (three sites in Croatia and one in Montenegro). All researched locations are insular and dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Madonna). We applied a diverse methodology, including flying a drone and completing fieldwork and archival work studying old maps and documents.
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Archaeological Approaches to and Heritage Perspectives on Modern Conflict Landscape Research (IF 1.701) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Ross Wilson
Published in Landscape Research (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2023)