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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Landscape characterisation"”.
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Planning future pasts: using historic landscape characterisation in strategic and spatial planning.
Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) began with the desire to create a tool for the management of the historic landscape, with specific goals of informing strategic and spatial planning decisions. However, in the years since its initial development, HLC has changed its focus away from planning …
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Settlement and field patterns in the South Pennines : a critique of morphological approaches to landscape history in upland environments
… have received significantly less attention from landscape and agricultural historians than lowland areas. The literature on fields, for example, is dominated by discussion of open or common fields, displaying an arable bias that ignores the pastoral nature of upland farming. National and county …
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The investigation of regional ecology using 2km x 2km scale botanical distribution data
… semi-natural habitats, linking an historical landscape characterisation with vascular plant analysis for the first time in the UK. The investigation set out to characterise and classify spatial units in terms of biodiversity importance, and to produce an objective ecological classification of …
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City Farm Garden : countering the impacts of urban expansion in a rural valley in the Western Cape through a gardening approach to place-making
Globally, the uniqueness of rural landscapes is at risk of disappearing (Makhzoumi & Pungetti 1999:16, 24). Global changes threaten traditional landscapes, biodiversity and the structure of rural society, and impact local, regional and global ecological processes that will ultimately determine the …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… aims to place the Isle of Wight in the English landscape. It examines the much discussed but problematic concept of ‘islandness’, identifying distinctive insular characteristics and determining their significance but also investigating internal landscape diversity. This is the first detailed …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of …