Cultural Severance and the Environment The Ending of Traditional and Customary Practice on Commons and Landscapes Managed in Common /
A standpoint of many of the contributions is that it is important or even vital to understand the past, our history, if we are to address effectively future environmental challenges. Often, this is not the case, since the environment and nature, are treated as ‘natural’ rather than eco-cultural. Iss...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Environmental History,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6159-9 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Setting the Scene on Cultural Severance and its Implications
- 1. Cultural Landscapes and Problems Associated with the Loss of Tradition and Custom: an introduction and overview
- 2. Cultural Severance and the End of Tradition
- 3. Globalism and the Enclosure of the Landscape Commons
- 4. A Natural Origin of the Commons: Interactions of People, Animals and Invisible Biodiversity
- Part 2: Case Studies of Cultural Landscapes from Around the World
- 5. Valorising the European rural landscape: the case of the Italian national register of historical rural landscapes
- 6. Severance of Traditional Grazing Landscape in the Himalayas: Commons and Ecosystems in Crisis?
- 7. Early Wood Commons and Beyond
- 8. What, How, and Why? Collecting Traditional Knowledge on Forest Uses in Switzerland
- 9. The History of Utilization and Management of Commons and Consequences of Current Social Change in the Alpine Region of Austria
- 10. Guided Pollards and the Basque Woodland during the Early Modern Ages
- 11. The Evolution of Forest Landscapes in Spain’s Central Mountain Range: Different Forests for Different Traditional Uses
- 12. Of Commoners and Kings
- 13. The cultural landscape of royal hunting gardens from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century in Białowieża Primeval Forest
- 14. The End of Common Uses and Traditional Management in a Central European Wood
- Part 3: The History and Use of Landscape Commons
- 15. ‘A very fair field indeed…’: an Archaeology of the Common Lands of English Towns
- 16. From Pasture Woodland, via Deer Park and Common, to Cultural Severance – a Case Study of the Commons of Ashampstead, Berkshire
- 17. Changing Cornish Commons
- 18. The Commons of the Ancient Parish of Sheffield
- 19. Traditional Uses, Destruction, Survival and Restoration of Common Land: a South Yorkshire Perspective
- 20. Abandoned Landscapes of Former German Settlement in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia
- 21. Land management and Biodiversity through Time in Upper Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, UK: Understanding the Impact of Traditional Management
- 22. Policing the Commons in the Vale of York, c.1550 - c.1850
- 23. The Parliamentary Enclosure of Upland Commons in North-west England: Economic, Social and Cultural Impacts
- Part 4: Issues and Approaches for Future Commons & Cultural Landscapes
- 24. Biodiversity Conservation and the Traditional Management of Common Land: the Case of the New Forest
- 25. Looking Back to the Future: ancient, working pollards and Europe’s silvo-pastoral systems
- 26. Promoting Stewardship of New Commons: Lessons from Wake Nature Partnership
- 27. End of Tradition, Reworking of Custom: Re-assembling Satoyama Woodlands on Tokyo’s Urban Fringe
- 28. New Commons for Old: Inspiring New Cultural Traditions
- 29. Community Grassland Conservation on a Former Common in the Wye Valley, England
- 30. Upland Wood Pastures
- Part 5: Conclusions & Overview: the Implications of Severance for Future Landscapes
- 31. Concluding Thoughts on the Implications of Cultural Severance on Landscapes, Ecology and People.