Frozen Histories or Narratives of Change? Contextualizing Land-Use Dynamics for Conservation of Historical Rural Landscapes

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/19:78824

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-019-01136-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-019-01136-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01136-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00267-019-01136-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Frozen Histories or Narratives of Change? Contextualizing Land-Use Dynamics for Conservation of Historical Rural Landscapes

Original language description

Current research has identified extensive changes in land-use structure and land management of Central European rural landscapes due to shifting political and economic trajectories. These changes are exemplified by diverse processes of agricultural intensification, privatization and land fragmentation, land abandonment and overall changes in modes of production. The extensive record of these historically specific processes has posed a fundamental challenge for rural landscape conservation, which is addressed in this paper. First, we identify the key contradictions in rural landscape conservation, which include (i) conservation based on cultural versus environmental/ecological values, (ii) conservation based on spatial landscape patterns versus individual landscape features, and (iii) conservation based on the preservation of past landscapes versus conservation that also address the processes of change. Subsequently, we use a case study of an existing open-air museum in Zubrnice, northern Czechia, to analyze and discuss these dichotomies. In this regional case study, we first contextualize the land-use/land-cover change (LULC) reconstructed from old maps using a thorough archive (documentary proxies) and field research (survey of agrarian terraces, clearance cairns, and remnants of orchards) that enabled the construction of a narrative of specific landscape structures and features. Finally, we integrate the collected data with a novel methodological approach that allow for the spatial identification of the landscape segments that represent the narratives of historical change in modes of rural production and are therefore suitable for integration within the existing open-air museum to improve its conservation and education status.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental ManagementScopus coverage years:from 1976 to Present

ISSN

0364-152X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

352-365

UT code for WoS article

000459416600005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85061058110