Characterizing European cultural landscapes: Accounting for structure, management intensity and value of agricultural and forest landscapes

Land Use Policy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-39

  Tieskens, Koen F ^a   Schulp, Catharina J E ^a   Levers, Christian ^b   Lieskovský, Juraj ^c,d   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b   Plieninger, Tobias ^e   Verburg, Peter H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cultural value; Heritage; Land use intensity; Landscape classification; Landscape structure; Landscape typology; Landscape value and meaning; Panoramio

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

EUROPE;

EID: 85007403138     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.12.001     Document Type: Article

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