Roberts / Atkins / Simmons People, Land and Time

An Historical Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4441-6567-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new' cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book comprises three major, interwoven strands. First, fundamental factors such as environmental change and population pressure are addressed in order to sketch the contextual variables of landscapes production. Second, the evolution of the humanised landscape is discussed in terms of processes such as clearing wood, the impact of agriculture, the creation of urban-industrial complexes, and is also treated in historical periods such as the pre-industrial, the modern and the post-modern. From this we can see the cultural and economic signatures of human societies at different times and places. Finally, examples of landscape types are selected in order to illustrate the ways in which landscape both represents and participates in social change.

The authors use a wide range of source material, ranging from place-names and pollen diagrams to literature and heritage monuments. Superbly illustrated throughout, it is essential reading for first-year undergraduates studying historical geography, human geography, cultural geography or landscape history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Brian

Atkins, Peter

Simmons, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Prehistoric landscapes

The origins of agriculture

Early Urbanization and environment

Resources and population pressure

Environmental degradation and collapse of civilizations

Clearing the wood

Resource Inventories

Sustainable resource management

Large scale landscape change

Fields in the landscape

Village settlement

Landscape planning

The transition from feudalism to capitalism

Elite landscapes

The evolution and impact of modern economic systems

The industrial revolution

Modern urban landscapes

The impact of agriculture

Frontier and wilderness

Issues of conservation

The future.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Atkins, Ian Simmons and Brian Roberts are Professors in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham, UK.