Landscapes Under Pressure : Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation
- Author
- Ludomir R Lozny
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Social Science
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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.
Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Environmental Planning / Historical Ecology /Rescue Archeology / Cultural change / Cultural heritage / Cultural landscapes / Ecology / Ecosystem / Environment / Landscape
