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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| What are landscapes? | |
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| Landscape development and change | |
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| The study of landscape history | |
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| The meshing of nature and culture | |
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| Time layers in the landscape | |
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| Dynamics of landscape change | |
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| Prehistoric outlines | |
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| Historic landscapes | |
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| Ecological pattern and process at the landscape scale | |
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| Pattern in landscapes | |
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| The response of species to landscape pattern | |
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| Nutrient and energy flows in landscapes | |
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| The practical application of ecological theory | |
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| An environmental classification of European landscapes | |
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| Approaches to landscape classification | |
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| A multivariate methodology | |
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| The Great Britain land classification | |
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| The European classification | |
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| European land classes | |
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| Scale | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Landscapes worthy of protection | |
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| Polders | |
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| Krimpenerwaard, The Netherlands | |
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| The historical geography of the era | |
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| Flora and fauna | |
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| Water management | |
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| Recreation | |
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| Threats and their proposed resolutions | |
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| Japanese landscapes | |
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| Ejin Oasis, Inner Mongolia, China | |
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| Mountains | |
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| Sognefjord, Norway | |
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| Geology and topography | |
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| Vegetation | |
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| Animal populations | |
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| Land use | |
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| The modern rural economy | |
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| Settlement and trasport | |
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| Recreation | |
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| Cultural associations | |
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| The importance of the landscape | |
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| Trends threatening the landscape | |
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| The future | |
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| Mount Carmel, Israel | |
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| Atlantic heathland, Ytre Fensfjord and Lurefjorden, Norway | |
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| Mediterranean islands | |
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| Gavdhos, Crete | |
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| The structure of the landscape | |
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| Vegetation | |
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| Animals | |
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| History, archaeology and land use | |
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| Settlement patterns | |
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| Farming and herding | |
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| Population | |
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| Cultural uses and associations | |
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| Recreation and tourism | |
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| Ecological dynamics | |
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| Landscape change | |
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| The future | |
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| Omalos Plain, Crete | |
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| Land use | |
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| Flora and fauna | |
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| Settlement patterns | |
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| Socio-economic systems | |
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| Literary and artistic associations | |
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| Significance and status of the landscape | |
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| The future of the area | |
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| Balearic landscapes | |
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| Rio S. Lucia lowlands, Sardinia | |
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| Coltura promiscua (mixed cropping) | |
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| The Solano Basin, Italy | |
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| Geology and geomorphology | |
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| Land-use history | |
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| Population and settlement | |
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| Flora and vegetation | |
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| The value of the landscape | |
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| Threats | |
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| Montado (Dehesa) of Portugal and Spain | |
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| Bocage (wooded farmland) | |
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| The Weald of Kent and Sussex, England | |
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| Geology and geomorphology | |
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| Vegetation | |
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| The rural economy | |
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| Land use | |
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| Historical monuments | |
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| Landscape change | |
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| Protection and management | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania | |
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| Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic | |
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| Landscape conservation | |
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| Identifying threatened, valued landscapes | |
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| Survey | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Landscape appreciation | |
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| Evaluation methodologies | |
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| Monetary evaluations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| European landscapes in transition: levels of intervention | |
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| The economic transition | |
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| The policy transition | |
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| The socio-holistic transition | |
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| Integrated environmental reporting | |
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| Managing old landscapes and making new ones | |
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| Sustainable land use | |
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| Farmers as landscape managers | |
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| An environmental market for post-modern landscapes? | |
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| The future of farming | |
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| New lives, new landscapes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |