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Landscape history

About: Landscape history is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1039 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21339 citations. The topic is also known as: history of landscape.


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TL;DR: The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscapes change.
Abstract: The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the study of driving forces of landscape changes. These new directions address four major challenges faced by landscape-change studies, i.e., studying processes and not merely spatial patterns, extrapolating results in space and time, linking data of different qualities, and considering culture as a driver of landscape change. The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscape change. Based on established knowledge and the new approaches we outline a standard procedure to study driving forces of landscape change. We anticipate that our analytical and systematic approach increases the relevance of studies of landscape change for science as well as for the solution of real world problems.

683 citations

Book
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Mitchell et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss the politics of English landscape drawing around 1795 and the representation of England by turning to the "wattled cot" in Thomas Pringle's African landscapes.
Abstract: Imperial landscape / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Competing communities in the "great bog of Europe" : identity and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting / Ann Jensen Adams -- System, order, and abstraction : the politics of English landscape drawing around 1795 / Ann Bermingham -- Turner and the representation of England / Elizabeth Helsinger -- "Our wattled cot" : mercantile and domestic space in Thomas Pringle's African landscapes / David Bunn -- Territorial photography / Joel Snyder -- The effects of landscape / Charles Harrison -- Invention, memory, and place / Edward W. Said -- Holy landscape : Israel, Palestine, and the American wilderness / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Picture and witness at the site of the wilderness / Jonathan Bordo -- The beach (a fantasy) / Michael Taussig -- Hic jacet / Robert Pogue Harrison.

558 citations

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, Bender et al. discuss the politics of landscape in Northern Australia and present a map of the landscape as a memory of process and its representation in a Melanesian society.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction - B. Bender, Landscape: Meaning and Action -J. Thomas, The Politics of Vision and the Archaeologies of Landscape - C. Tilley, Art, Architecture, Landscape [Neolithic Sweden] - S. Kuechler, Landscape as Memory: The Mapping of Process and its Representation in a Melanesian Society - N. Jarman, Intersecting Belfast - F. Edholm, The view from Below: Paris in the 1880s - B. Bodenhorn, Gendered Spaces, Public Places: Public and Private Revisited on the North Slope of Alaska - H. Morphy, Colonialism, History and the Construction of Place: The Politics of Landscape in Northern Australia - B. Bender, Stonehenge: Contested Landscapes [Medieval to Present Day] - D. Cosgrove, Landscapes and Myths, Gods and Humans - K. Olwig, Sexual Cosmology: Nation and Landscape at the Conceptual Interstices of Nature and Culture. Or What Does Landscape Really Mean?

557 citations

Book
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and explain the development of the Near Eastern landscape using archaeological data and identify specific landscape signatures for various regions and periods, from the early stages of complex societies in the fifth to sixth millennium B.C. to the close of the Early Islamic period around the tenth century A.D.
Abstract: Many fundamental studies of the origins of states have built upon landscape data, but an overall study of the Near Eastern landscape itself has never been attempted. Spanning thousands of years of history, the ancient Near East presents a bewildering range of landscapes, the understanding of which can greatly enhance our ability to infer past political and social systems. Tony Wilkinson now shows that throughout the Holocene humans altered the Near Eastern environment so thoroughly that the land has become a human artifact, albeit one that retains the power to shape human societies. In this trailblazing book—the first to describe and explain the development of the Near Eastern landscape using archaeological data—Wilkinson identifies specific landscape signatures for various regions and periods, from the early stages of complex societies in the fifth to sixth millennium B.C. to the close of the Early Islamic period around the tenth century A.D. From Bronze Age city-states to colonized steppes, these signature landscapes of irrigation systems, tells, and other features changed through time along with changes in social, economic, political, and environmental conditions. By weaving together the record of the human landscape with evidence of settlement, the environment, and social and economic conditions, Wilkinson provides a holistic view of the ancient Near East that complements archaeological excavations, cuneiform texts, and other conventional sources. Through this overview, culled from thirty years' research, Wilkinson establishes a new framework for understanding the economic and physical infrastructure of the region. By describing the basic attributes of the ancient cultural landscape and placing their development within the context of a dynamic environment, he breaks new ground in landscape archaeology and offers a new context for understanding the ancient Near East.

446 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202313
202234
20218
202020
201919
201830