Landscapes Blog

September 5, 2014

European Wood-Pastures as Cultural Landscapes

Tibor HartelSapientia University, Romania Tobias PlieningerUniversity of Copenhagen

European landscapes are shaped by long-lasting, intensive and complex interactions between people and nature. This interaction has generated values that are appreciated by society, nowadays called “landscape values” or “ecosystem services,” but many of these cultural landscape values are in decline. Wood-pastures—combinations of grazing lands with scattered trees—ar ...
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