Landscapes lost

Arnesen, Tor

doi:10.1080/01426399808706524

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“…Hydro power policy almost exclusively and de facto refers to and unfolds in mountain areas, but operates independent of a mountain definition (Arnesen 1999). National park policy has, until quite recently, exclusively been implemented in mountain areas, but does not rest on a definition of mountains as such (Arnesen 1998). Agricultural policy has distinguished lowland from mainly mountainous areas.…”

Section: The Evolving Policy Context For Defining Mountain Areasmentioning

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Mapping mountain areas: learning from Global, European and Norwegian perspectives

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Gloersen³

et al. 2018

J. Mt. Sci.

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Abstract:Defining the spatial extent of mountain areas has long been a challenge. In the present century, the availability of digital elevation models (DEMs) incorporated into geographic information systems (GIS) has allowed the definition of mountain areas based on topographic and other criteria. This paper presents the various delineations of mountains that have been prepared at three scales -global, regional (Europe), and national -and explores the reasons and processes leading to these delineations, and how they have been used. A detailed case study is then presented for Norway. Overall, two types of approaches to mapping mountains have been taken: first, considering mountains per se, based on elevation and/or topography; second, considering them among other categories, e.g., landforms or biogeographical, environmental or landscape zones. All attempts to map mountain areas derive essentially from the objectives of those commissioning and/or undertaking the work; a unitary definition remains unlikely.

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Section: The Evolving Policy Context For Defining Mountain Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping mountain areas: learning from Global, European and Norwegian perspectives

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“…Landscape beauty and local history, embodied in the features of a farming landscape, add aesthetic and recreational values, while the historically developed landscapes with a specific inherent character are part of our heritage and thus add identity value (Jones 1993). In fact, in many cases the identity oflandscape at the general level is 'fading out' (Arnesen, 1998) in generalizing and globalizing trends, and functional history is no longer being added to the landscape.…”

Section: How To Approach Identity In Landscape?mentioning

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Values of rural landscapes in Europe: inspiration or by-product?

Pedroli

Elsen²,

Mansvelt

2007

NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

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European landscapes are facing a deep crisis. As a consequence of globalization and the economical change associated with it, traditional functions like production agriculture are becoming less important.After the self-evident but inspired landscapes of numerous generations of peasants, monks and landlords, landscape has now largely become a nameless by-product of the global economy. This paper shows that the key to developing new living landscapes lies in a participatory process oflandscape development with respect for their inherent values. Today, even in traditionally small-scale farming systems like organic farming, diverse and sustainable landscapes only develop if they are consciously wanted and when landscape development is integrated into the objectives of farming. The work that is needed to achieve such landscapes we call 'landscape work'. This paper describes a phenomenological approach to identifying landscape values and finding new inspiration for landscape management. It gives examples of the application of this approach in organic farming in Germany. It is concluded that a living, sustainable landscape combines the functional effects of producing economic and social benefits with the intertwined effects of providing identity and inspiration for getting actively involved in it, in accordance with its dynamic character. Living landscapes will enhance the well being, also of the predominantly urban European population. In other words: landscape works.

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“…Et annet utgangspunkt har vaert at forvaltningsmessig praksis er influert av forvaltningenes primaere oppgaver og den faglige bakgrunnen til de aktører som befolker dem. Tidligere studier av miljøforvaltningen har vist at praksis er influert av eller bygger direkte på ulike politiske og faglige ideologier og verdier (Nenseth 1996, Arnesen 1998. Det er en plausibel antagelse at dette sannsynligvis også gjelder for forvaltningenes arbeid med metoder og prosedyrer for verdsetting.…”

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