Europe's living landscapes : : essays exploring our identity in the countryside / / (editors) Bas Pedroli ... [and others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Pedroli, G. B. M.
• Place / Publishing House: Zeist : : KNNV Publishing.; c2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book is the result of three symposia of the Dutch Society for Landscape Ecology. The first symposium in 2005 was about the National Ecological Network in the Netherlands . The reason was that the implementation of the NEN, decided upon in 1990, was halfway. The second symposium, in 2006, was ab...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Europe’s living landscapes at a turning point / Bas Pedroli , Dirk Wascher , Geert de Blust , Maria Luisa Paracchini and Anne van Doorn
• Chapter 2: High Nature Value farmland and traditional agricultural landscapes: Open opportunities in the development of rural areas / Maria Luisa Paracchini , Jean-Michel Terres , Jan-Erik Petersen and Ybele Hoogeveen
• Chapter 3: European Landscape Characterisation / Sander Mücher and Dirk Wascher
• Chapter 4: The Saint-Nectaire cheese landscapes: myth or reality? / Yves Michelin , Olivier Aznar , Fabien Guerreiro , Lydie Menadier , Claire Planchat and Dominique Vollet
• Chapter 5: The Norwegian summer farming landscape: A presentation of the characteristic summer farming landscape in south central Norway / Ann Norderhaug and Hanne Sickel
• Chapter 6: Renewing the landscapes of Lombardy: A green vision / Paolo Lassini , Francesco Monzani and Paolo Pileri
• Chapter 7: Multi-functional Landscapes in Scotland / Maria Nijnik , David Miller , Albert Nijnik and Jane Morrice
• Chapter 8: Building New ‘Ring Forts’ in Defence of the Irish Landscape / Terry O'Regan
• Chapter 9: Cultural landscape paths in a polarised Belgium / Marc Antrop , Trees Ongena , Marjanne Sevenant and Veerle Van Eetvelde
• Chapter 10: The Oer-IJ: A metropolitan wetland on Amsterdam’s doorstep: The archaeological-historical landscape as inspiration for spatial planning / Tom Bloemers and Arnold Van der Valk
• Chapter 11: Heathland, an ever changing landscape / Geert de Blust
• Chapter 12: Can fine landscape qualities be sustained under relentless pressure for change?: The example of Holy Island / David Eagar
• Chapter 13: The Netherlands’youngest polder in its prime: The Master plan of the Roggebot Country Estate, Flevoland / Johan Meeus
• Chapter 14: Farming for nature in the Fehntjer Tief: A contribution to the sustainable development of an East Frisian cultural landscape / Heinrich Pegel
• Chapter 15: The veiled patterns of power: Changes in the marginalised countryside of Estonia and local identity / Hannes Palang , Anu Printsmann , Marju Kõivupuu , Valter Lang and Marge Konsa
• Chapter 16: The cultural landscape of Moritzburg: Between traditions and new challenges / Olaf Bastian
• Chapter 17: The Východné Karpaty, a forgotten landscape: Environmental and cultural values as starting points for sustainable development / Zita Izakovičová and Július Oszlányi
• Chapter 18: The Pannonian Great Plain a flourishing garden?: Water as a key to the history and future of the central lowlands in the Carpathian basin / Éva Konkoly Gyuró
• Chapter 19: The Copenhagen Finger Plan: Keeping a green space structure by a simple planning metaphor / Henrik Vejre , Jørgen Primdahl and Jesper Brandt
• Chapter 20: The Aegean Islands: a paradise lost?: Tourism as a driver for changing landscapes / Thanasis Kizos , Ioannis Spilanis and Maria Koulouri
• Chapter 21: Chianti beyond its wine / Paolo Baldeschi
• Chapter 22: Complexity in the simplicity: the Spanish dehesas: The secret of an ancient cultural landscape with high nature value still functioning in the 21st century / Marta Pérez Soba , Alfonso San Miguel and Ramón Elena-Rosselló.