Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change

by Head,Lesley

• ISBN13: 9780340731147
• ISBN10: 0340731141
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as ones transformed by human action. Advances in palaeocological reconstruction techniques have increased our powers to discern the earliest human impacts. This stimulating new book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities by reviewing the most important methodological and conceptual tools that help environmental scientists understand cultural landscapes.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xii
List of illustrations	xiv
List of tables	xvi
List of boxes	xvii
Preface	xix
Acknowledgements	xxiii
I OVERVIEW
Contingent constructions: cultural landscapes and environmental change	3	(10)
Chapter summary	3	(1)
Disappearing nature and the lessons of the past	3	(2)
Disciplines and dualisms	5	(2)
Contingent constructions	7	(2)
Writing and reading this book	9	(4)
II METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FROM THE SCIENCES
Transformed landscapes: human impacts and the palaeoecological record	13	(21)
Chapter summary	13	(1)
Changing the face of the Earth	13	(5)
Landscapes of colonization	18	(6)
Hunter-gatherer/agricultural landscapes	24	(6)
Post-industrial impacts	30	(2)
Strengths, limitations and future directions	32	(2)
The questions of naturalness: environmental change in ecology and palaeoecology	34	(15)
Chapter summary	34	(1)
The change in environmental change	34	(2)
Ecology	36	(2)
Palaeoecology	38	(2)
People and disturbance	40	(3)
Change in global environmental change research	43	(6)
III METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FROM THE HUMANITIES
The social construction of nature and landscape	49	(17)
Chapter summary	49	(1)
Culture, nature and landscape	49	(7)
Wild and tame	56	(1)
Landscapes of the prehistoric past	57	(9)
Production of knowledge and its policy implications	66	(17)
Chapter summary	66	(1)
Researching culture and the culture of research	66	(1)
Theorizing cultural processes in global change research	67	(3)
Climate change	70	(3)
Rethinking deforestation	73	(4)
Cultural landscapes as 'discourse materalized'	77	(6)
IV CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND THE LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE
Protecting places	83	(16)
Chapter summary	83	(1)
Mechanisms of protection	83	(1)
World Heritage cultural landscapes	84	(10)
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park	94	(4)
The inheritance of future generations	98	(1)
Restored, (p)reserved and created landscapes	99	(20)
Chapter summary	99	(1)
Managing for change	99	(1)
Restored landscapes: going backwards?	100	(11)
Preserved landscapes: freezing the present?	111	(6)
Created landscapes: a step forward?	117	(1)
Implications	118	(1)
Humanized landscapes: a place for people?	119	(17)
Chapter summary	119	(1)
Living landscapes	119	(1)
Indigenous peoples and environmental management	120	(10)
Developing countries	130	(6)
Identity, heritage and tourism	136	(19)
Chapter summary	136	(1)
Identity and the past	136	(9)
Contested identities: landscapes of heritage	145	(2)
Selling culture and the past: landscapes of tourism	147	(5)
Educating the educators	152	(3)
Conclusion	155	(2)
References	157	(12)
Index	169