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Summary
Summary
All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural landscape' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. This book brings together these two perspectives, providing new insights into the social-ecological resilience of cultural landscapes by coming to terms with, and challenging, the concepts of 'driving forces', 'thresholds', 'adaptive cycles' and 'adaptive management'. By linking these research communities, this book develops a new perspective on landscape changes. Based on firm conceptual contributions and rich case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, it will appeal to anyone interested in analysing and managing change in human-shaped environments in the context of sustainability.
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This work, focused on the resilience of social-ecological landscapes, is among the pioneer publications on the broader concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHN) that has received much attention globally in the past decade. Based mostly on European landscapes, the book first presents the concepts and theories in six chapters (part 1), emphasizing resilience in culturally or human-dominated landscapes. The six chapters in part 2 contain case analyses of resilience in landscapes from Argentina, Spain, Germany, and the Caribbean islands to illustrate CHN applications. Six different landscapes from Tanzania, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Cuba, and Australia demonstrate the management options following the paradigm of resilience-landscape dogma in five chapters in part 3. Finally, three chapters in part 4 discuss the future and opportunities for understanding and managing the landscapes. Though the planning workshop for this book took place in Europe and chapter contributors and examples were drawn mostly from western Europe, the concepts and approaches presented can be applied elsewhere for both strategic planning and developing management options. The book contributes a new dimension (i.e., broader spatial scale) of CHN and also serves as a theoretical frontier in the ecological understanding of resilience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, active researchers, and practitioners in conservation and natural resource management. J. Chen University of Toledo
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilienceTobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling |
| Part I Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems |
| 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processesPaul Selman |
| 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Thomas Kirchoff and Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel |
| 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinkingLesley Head |
| 5 System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamicsMarie Stenseke and Regina Lindborg and Annika Dhalberg and Elin Slätmo |
| 6 Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesMats Widgren |
| Part II Analysing Landscape Resilience |
| 7 In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapesMatthias Bürgi and Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger |
| 8 Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern ArgentinaAlejandro J. Rescia and María E. Pérez-Corona and Paula Arribas-Ureña and John W. Dover |
| 9 Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape developmentAndreas Röhring and Ludger Gailing |
| 10 The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological systemWilliam Found and Marta Berbés-Blázquez |
| 11 Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scalesKira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard |
| Part III Managing Landscapes for Resilience |
| 12 Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilienceKatrin Prager |
| 13 Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systemsMagnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist |
| 14 Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a futureElisa Oteros-Rozas and José A. González and Berta Martín-López and César A. López and Carlos Montes |
| 15 The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and AustriaChristine Van der Stege and Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl |
| 16 Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecologyBetsy A. Beymer-Farris and Thomas J. Bassett and Ian Bryceson |
| Part IV Perspectives for Resilient Landscapes |
| 17 A heterarchy of knowledges: tools for the study of landscape histories and futuresCarole L. Crumley |
| 18 Towards a deeper understanding of the social in resilience: the contributions of cultural landscapesAnn P. Kinzig |
| 19 Resilience and cultural landscapes: opportunities, relevance and ways aheadClaudia Bieling and Tobias Plieninger |
| Index |
