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Front Matter -- Landscape: Continuity and Transformation. Landscape: Continuity and Transformation -- Landscape: The Resistance of the Past? -- Landscape: A Past... Surpassed? -- Landscape: The Articulation of Past, Present and Future -- Resilience: A Tool for Understanding the …
"The articulation between persistence and change is relevant to a great number of different disciplines. It is particularly central to the study of urban and rural forms in many different fields of research, in geography, archaeology, architecture and history. Resilience puts fo…
Walking, Landscape and Environment' explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This edited collection of essays from leading figures in the field presents an enquir…
This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain r…
A landscape is a visual perception, the way in which we experience our environment through our eyes. In this provocative book Douglas Porteous ventures far beyond the visual into the myriad other sensory and existential perceptions -- otherscapes -- through which we encounter th…
Introduction : reinterpreting landscapes in an evolving world -- The pastoral tradition as inherited motives -- From classical pastorals to pastoral landscapes : rebirth of the landscape idea through analytical narration -- Instances of pastoral motivation in contemporary landsc…
Arcadia Updated delves into the concept of landscape as it is shaped by the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral. Referring to several of the tradition's works as well as scholarly critiques, Fiskevold and Geelmuyden highlight how individual landscape percepti…
"In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the 'anti-picturesque, ' offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt."--Jacket.
