Conservation of cultural landscapes / Edited by M.Agnoletti

I: Introduction: Framing the Issue - a Trans-disciplinary Reflection on Cultural Landscapes Part I: Analysis 1: The Development of a Historical and Cultural Evaluation Approach in Landscape Assessment: the Dynamic of Tuscan Landscape between 1832 and 20042: Cultural Landscapes in Northern Forests - Time, Space and Affiliation to the Land 3: Energy Balance and Land Use: the Making of an Agrarian Landscape from the Vantage Point of Social Metabolism (the Catalan Valles County in 1860/1870)4: Earth Observation Techniques and Geographic Information Systems as Tools for Assessing Land Use/Cover Changes in a Landscape Context Part II: Management 5: The Project for the Rural Landscape Park in Moscheta (Tuscany, Italy)6: Long-term Vegetation Dynamics in Southern Scandinavia and Their Use in Managing Landscapes for Biodiversity 7: Mountain Landscape, Pastoral Management and Traditional Practices in the Northern Pyrenees (France)8: Maintaining Cultural and Natural Biodiversity in Europe's Economic Centre and Periphery 9: Rethinking Traditional Preservation Approaches for Managing a Forested Cultural Landscape: the Case of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park's Mount Tom Forest 10: Working Forest Landscapes: Two Case Studies from North Carolina11: Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cultural Landscapes 12: Land-use and Landscape Histories: the Role of History in Current Environmental Decisions 13: Cultural Landscape Management in Europe and Germany 14: The Restoration of Forest Landscapes through Farmland Afforestation Measures in Spain Part III: Case studies 15: Historic Landscape Restoration: Case Studies of Site Recovery in Post-industrial South Yorkshire, England 16: Comparative International Research on Agricultural Land-use History and Forest Management Practices: the Tuscan Estate of Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 17: Shaping the Landscape: Long-term Effects of the Historical Controversy about the Viennese Forest (Wienerwald) 18: Recovery and Valorization of a Historical Fruit Orchard: the Kolymbetra in the Temple Valley, Sicily

This book presents different methodologies developed to analyse, manage and plan landscape resources. It reports recent research findings and case studies from Europe and North America, suggesting