TY - BOOK ID - 29227013 TI - Landscapes under pressure : theory and practice of cultural heritage research and preservation PY - 2006 SN - 9786611220143 1281220140 1280724102 9786610724109 0387284613 0387284605 0387757201 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cultural property KW - Historic preservation. KW - Protection. KW - Preservation, Historic KW - Preservationism (Historic preservation) KW - Cultural property, Protection of KW - Cultural resources management KW - Cultural policy KW - Historic preservation KW - Protection KW - Government policy KW - Landscape KW - Cultural heritage KW - Agriculture KW - agriculture KW - Land use planning KW - land use KW - Environmental impact KW - History KW - Resource conservation KW - Cultural heritage. KW - Archaeology. KW - Landscape ecology. KW - Cultural Heritage. KW - Landscape Ecology. KW - Archeology KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Antiquities KW - Cultural patrimony KW - Cultural resources KW - Heritage property KW - National heritage KW - National patrimony KW - National treasure KW - Patrimony, Cultural KW - Treasure, National KW - Property KW - World Heritage areas KW - Ecology KW - agriculture. KW - Anthropique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29227013 AB - There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of culture and nature has proved to be a poor basis for scientific research and long-term environmental management. Humans have been major factors in environmental change for thousands of years using fire, intensive hunting and a wide range of agricultural strategies to transform most ecosystems on the earth long before the Industrial Revolution. All these activities contribute to the making of cultural landscapes which incorporate elements generally classified in two groups: tangible empirical evidence of human behavior, and intangible, symbolic meanings. This book investigates the newly emerging scope of interests and project agendas to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes through prehistoric and historic times. The "guiding light" of the book is that the fullest understanding of a cultural landscape will materialize through interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology as the guiding tool, applied archaeology, and environmental planning. The book addresses issues of interest to policymakers-makers and planners and those who investigate cultural landscapes. ER -