Cultural landscapes and environmental change
- Responsibility
- Lesley Head.
- Imprint
- London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Physical description
- 179 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Key issues in environmental change.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Head, Lesley.
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- Quarrying yams - perspectives from the edge
- contingent constructions - cultural landscapes and environmental change
- methodological and conceptual tools from the sciences
- transformed landscapes - human impacts and the palaeoecological record
- the question of naturalness - environmental change inecology and palaeocology
- methodological and concept tools from the humanities
- the social construction of nature and landscape
- the production of knowledgee and its policy implications
- contemporary issues and the long term perspective
- protecting places
- restored, (p)reserved and created landscapes
- humanised landscapes - a place for people?
- identity, heritage and tourism.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as ones transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeolocological reconstruction have also allowed for interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. This title argues that convergences of modern trends in the humanities coupled with these interpretations provide a holistic understanding of the long-term physical and human processes. The title is split into two major sections, providing an analysis of the methodological tools employed in examining processes of environmental change. The author argues the way in which environmental management decisions are made and then moves on to discuss the contemporary issues through a variety of international case studies, including landscape preservation, indigenous people and cultural tourism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences and humanities. This stimulating new book argues that convergence of the two approaches can provide a more holistic understanding of long-term physical and human processes. Split into two major sections, this book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. The first section provides an analysis of the methodological tools employed in examining processes of environmental change. Empirical research in the fields of palaecology and Quaternary studies is combined with the latest theoretical views of nature and landscape occurring in cultural geography, archaeology and anthropology. The author examines the way in which environmental management decisions are made. The book then moves on to discuss the relevance of this perspective to contemporary issues through a wide variety of international case studies, including World Heritage protection, landscape preservation, indigenous people and cultural tourism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2000
- Series
- Key issues in environmental change
- ISBN
- 0340731133
- 0340731141 (pbk.)
- 9780340731130
- 9780340731147 (PBK.)
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