Cultural Heritage, Landforms, and Integrated Territorial Heritage: the Close Relationship Between Tufas, Cultural Remains, and Landscape in the Upper Ebro Basin (Cantabrian Mountains, Spain)

Importance of Cultural Ecosystem Services for Cultural Identity and Wellbeing in the Lower Engadine, Switzerland

“…Most respondents from this research assigned a high importance to CES related to 'Terraces for traditional Agriculture activities' and 'Local costumes' such as to 'Cooking' or community identity related to biodiversity, and the identification of plant species that are particularly important for the Alps (e.g., Fire Lily, Edelweiss). Our results show the importance of a connection to nature of the local communities in order to preserve the cultural heritage, community identity, and landscape and traditional agricultural practices (i.e., 'Talking to neighbours', 'Learning about archaeology and/or history') in the Lower Engadine [72,73]. Previous studies have also shown that traditional agricultural practises (e.g., transhumance pastoralism) are essential for cultural identity and biodiversity preservation and restoration [74,75].…”

“…The Spearman's Rho correlation test between age and CES shows the highest positive, statistically significant correlation (p < 0.405) to a 0.01 significance level, for the service 'Looking for flowers' (Table 1). Although correlation tests cannot tell us what specific age group was statistically significant to a particular CES, we know from the correlation matrix that the oldest age group (72)(73)(74)(75)(76)(77)(78)(79)(80)(81)(82)(83)(84)(85)(86)(87)(88)(89)(90) in this survey consider 'Looking for flowers' the most important service, responding with a 100% rate. The K-means clustering enabled us to draw more nuanced conclusions about the relationships between different CES and demographic variables.…”

Information technology methods for locality preservation and inheritance of settlement cultural landscape

“…22 At the micro level, the multiple attributes and the variation of various elements of the settlement cultural landscape can be analysed, such as the structure, materials, and its deterioration mechanism and process analysis, etc. 23 Based on such a flexible and intelligent multi-dimensional analysis, the preventive locality preservation of settlement cultural landscape can be effectively carried out.…”

Granite Landscapes and Landforms in the Castro de Ulaca Site (Ávila, Spain): A Narrow Relationship between Natural and Cultural Heritage

“…The geomorphological map is useful to know the heritage elements or places of a specific territory, but it also allows to establish the interrelations with other geomorphological or cultural elements. And in the case of geomorphosites classified as sites, geomorphological diagrams allow us to analyse their internal characteristics and their structural or dynamic relationships with cultural elements [7,8].…”