Sustaining a Korean Traditional Rural Landscape in the Context of Cultural Landscape

Jung, Haejoon; Ryu, Jaeho

doi:10.3390/su70811213

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“…The delocalization of businesses, as well as the improvement of transport and infrastructure, could encourage people to move to the countryside and reduce human pressure on the city centre. New sustainable outdoor rural activities in areas which have been devoted to agriculture for centuries would allow a diversification of the land use typology, for the benefit of flood hazard mitigation, as well as for the aesthetic value of the landscape [76][77][78]. (c) Landscape planning: Landscape diversification would also be improved by the establishment of new green urban areas, parks and sustainable urban drainage in the lower Bisagno valley, intensively urbanised and characterized by a very high CN.…”

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Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment

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Since the nineteenth century, most urban catchments in Europe have been subject to significant landscape variations. These modifications have been caused by population change and the transition through rural, industrial and post-industrial economies. Land use and rainfall regime changes, together with land use variations, are frequently associated with flood hazard increase. This paper examines geomorphological landscape changes from the nineteenth century to the present day in the Bisagno Valley, Genoa metropolitan area. The Valley is internationally known for its recurring floods: the last events with fatalities occurred in 2011 and 2014. The extent of landscape change and the history of floods were examined by combining scientific data and information from historical maps, written accounts, topographical drawings and photographs. Historical–geographical and geomorphological analyses were used to reconstruct the runoff for three different periods since 1850. Our results demonstrate that geomorphological landscape variations, including modifications of the river bed, and the abandonment of the countryside and terraces are not sustainable and have progressively allowed an increase in flooding, making it necessary to implement sustainable management policies. In particular, specific spatial urban planning and management measures are necessary in order to mitigate flood hazard and vulnerability.

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Section: Landscape Planning For Flood Managementmentioning

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Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment

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“…Rural landscapes are the result of interactions between natural and anthropogenic environments, as well as between the past and present [1]. Traditional rural landscapes, in this regard, have received global attention due to their holistic and complex characteristics that maintain bio-cultural diversity, which is considered a key element in achieving sustainable development [2,3]. Ample empirical evidence indicates that rural landscapes support a wide array of species; have a large range of functions for the human population; and contribute to social, economic, and environmental sustainability in multiple ways [4][5][6].…”

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“…In recent years, Korea's unique rural landscapes have rapidly undergone many sociocultural and lifestyle changes; such changes include demographic changes, land abandonment, agricultural intensification, pressures exerted by urban development, the loss of traditional and local knowledge, and climate change [24][25][26][27]. According to researchers, these landscape changes comprise a threat or negative evolution because they have significantly reduced the diversity and identity of cultural landscapes and resulted in a diminished sense of place [2,28,29]. Meanwhile, various government-led studies and projects have examined rural landscapes based on the rural regional plans that were prepared after the government's policy shifted toward rural environment development in the late 1990s [30].…”

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“…Recent international trends in the management of cultural heritage, especially in the living landscapes, have moved away from an "elite approach", which tends to focus on outstanding natural phenomena. Instead, they aim to accept relative and diverse values and rely on a complex body of values to ensure the sustainable management of rural landscapes [2,78]. Here, sustainability is a sociocultural phenomenon that directly addresses the relationship between people and the world [79].…”

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Analysis of the Characteristics of Stone Signposts in Korean Rural Landscapes

2018

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Korean rural landscapes have been influenced by major events in modern Korean history, and have undergone many sociocultural and lifestyle changes. This study examines the characteristics of stone signposts, which physically represent the landscape entrance to Korean rural villages, and provide comprehensive information for the sustainable management of rural landscape elements having heritage value. We conducted field surveys and interviews in 313 rural villages in Korea and cross-tabulated the collected data with five question items. We designed one descriptive variable for the cause, set four question items for dependent variables, and analyzed the relationship among the variables. This study reveals that the installation times of stone signposts are related to the major issues of modern Korean history, and discusses how the signposts evolved into rural landscape elements. In addition, the study reveals that stone signposts can be considered a tactic designed to preserve regional identities in modern society and improve the quality of rural village landscapes. Over time, due to the complex long-term interactions that occurred between the landscape and the sociocultural environment of such regions, stone signposts evolved into elements of cultural heritage and representations of regional knowledge and history. Therefore, in order to improve Korean rural landscapes, their value must be assessed and managed independently based on historical, regional, and landscape considerations.

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“…Since then, cultural landscapes have become, and remained, a central theme of cultural geography. Under the influence of the cultural turn, a term coined in the field of social science in the 1980s, the research of landscapes has signaled a departure from approaching landscapes from an external appearance, definition point of view, and the interpretation of landscapes from a passive object, to viewing landscapes as a visual extension and development of cultural meaning and power [11][12][13][14]. New cultural geography conceived the landscape as part of a constructed and circulating system of cultural meaning, encoded in images, texts and discourses [15][16][17].…”

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The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

Hui-ling

Wei

2017

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Abstract:Landscape is an important object for research on local culture from a cultural geographical perspective. It is the spatial nature of memory that has seen the integrative study of memory and landscape receive increased attention from human geographers. The Qiqiao Festival is a traditional folk festival in the Lingnan region of Southern China. After half a century of suppression, the Qiqiao Festival in Zhucun was publically revitalized as the Guangzhou Qiqiao Cultural Festival, which coincided with the changing structure and significance of the landscape. This paper selected Zhucun, a typical urban village, as its case study and constructed an index system of festival landscapes. Through in-depth interviews, this paper studied the revival and restructure process of the Qiqiao Festival, and the role that landscapes play in the formation mechanism of memory on the part of subjects with different identities. The results showed that the elite and the local government selectively restructure festival landscapes, replacing authentic landscapes with "official" ones. The selection and production of a festival landscape constructed different memories among the subjects, where the festival memory of grassroots villagers was self-constructed and mostly came from traditional festival landscape elements while top-down interventions in the festival landscape constructed a different "official" memory for citizens and migrants to those of the villagers. The contemporary festival deviates from the original, which has weakened the conscious degree of cultural evolution and has had a reaction on the authenticity of memory. This research serves a reference for approaches in planning and conserving intangible cultural heritage in historic villages.

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Sustaining a Korean Traditional Rural Landscape in the Context of Cultural Landscape

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment

Geomorphological Landscape Research and Flood Management in a Heavily Modified Tyrrhenian Catchment

Analysis of the Characteristics of Stone Signposts in Korean Rural Landscapes

The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

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