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Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
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ISBN: 3110601559 3110601508 Year: 2018 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Aims and ScopeGrowing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation and ecosystem services. Within this context, landscape impact assessment and more in general landscape planning have been regarded as effective mechanisms for promoting and, at the same time, as the basis of sustainable landscape development. Set within the European context, thisbookaims to provide acontemporary review of landscape impact assessment theory and practice, looking at both the project and planning level. It coversthe overall process, content and scope of landscape impact assessment, including the main principles for good practice. Thisbook also provides guidance on a rangeof methods and techniques for different aspects of landscape impact assessment and public participation needs; and explains the advantages of close co-ordination between landscape impact assessment and landscape planning, especially in land use planning. Finally, a selection of case studies reviewing different aspects and practices of landscape impact assessment are reviewed.This book will be of interest to professionals involved in the day-to-day application of landscape impact assessment, as well as scholars and teachers working in the broad area of landscape planning andmanagement. The authors of thisbook have vast experiencein the research and practice of environmental assessment and landscape management.

The interpretation of ordinary landscapes : geographical essays
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ISBN: 0195025369 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

The age of exuberance 1550 - 1700.
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ISBN: 0710098030 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul


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Storied ground : landscape and the shaping of English national identity
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ISBN: 1108575811 1108685358 1108424732 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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Landscape resilience : basics, case studies, practical recommendations
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ISBN: 366263998X 3662639971 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Springer-Verlag,

Ideology and landscape in historical perspective ; essays on the meanings of some places in the past
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ISBN: 0521410320 Year: 1992 Volume: vol 18 Publisher: Cambridge New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press

Place, culture, representation
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ISBN: 041509450X 0415094518 Year: 1993 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

Historical ecology : cultural knowledge and changing landscapes.
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ISBN: 0933452853 Year: 1993 Publisher: Santa Fe School of American research press

Ecological planning : a historical and comparative synthesis
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ISBN: 080187775X 9780801877759 9780801868016 0801868017 Year: 2002 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press,


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Imagining landscapes : past, present and future
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ISBN: 1317118669 1317118650 1280876905 9786613718211 1409429725 9781409429722 1409429717 9781409429715 9781409429715 1315587890 9781317118664 9781317118657 9781280876905 6613718211 Year: 2012 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd,

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Describing the ways landscapes are perpetually shaped by the engagements and practices of their inhabitants, this innovative volume develops a processual approach to both perception and imagination. But it also brings out the ways in which these processes, animated by the hopes and dreams of inhabitants, increasingly come into conflict with the strategies of external actors empowered to impose their own, ready-made designs upon the world. With a focus on the temporal and kinaesthetic dynamics of imagining, Imagining Landscapes foregrounds both time and movement in understanding how past, prese

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