ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT Current Approaches to Characterisation and Assessment

• Other Authors: Fairclough, Graham (Editor), Herlin, Ingrid Sarlöv (Editor), Swanwick, Carys (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2020
• Subjects: Landscape assessment > Europe; Landscape assessment > Methodology; Landscapes > Social aspects
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In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape. Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relat...

Table of Contents:

• Landscape character approaches in global, disciplinary and policy context : an introduction / Graham Fairclough, Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin and Carys Swanwick
• Landscape character : experience from Britain / Carys Swanwick and Graham Fairclough
• Historic landscape characterisation : an archaeological approach to landscape heritage / Sam Turner
• Landscape characterisation in Sweden : landscape in the planning system / Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin, Jenny Nord and Matthias Qviström
• New approaches for new regions : Turkey / Meryem Atik and Nilgül Karadeniz
• Developing a landscape character map of Cyprus / Steven Warnock, Phaedon Enotiades and Geoffrey Griffiths
• Multi-method approaches to cultural landscape assessment in Croatia / Goran Andlar and Branka Aničić
• Landscape character assessment across scales : insights from the Portuguese experience of policy and planning / Isabel Loupa-Ramos and Teresa Pinto-Correia
• The collaborative, participatory process of landscape character mapping for land and forest planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania / Niina Käyhkö, Nora Fagerholm, Miza Khamis, Sheha I. Hamdan and Muhammad Juma
• US approaches related to landscape character assessment / James F. Palmer and Richard C. Smardon
• Atlas du paysage : landscape atlases in France and Wallonia / Laurence Le Dû-Blayo
• Landscape assessment in Germany / Diedrich Bruns and Boris Stemmer
• The landscape biography approach to landscape characterisation : Dutch perspectives / Jan Kolen, Hans Renes and Koos Bosma
• He tangata, he tangata, he tangata : landscape characterisation in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Simon Swaffield, Neil Challenger and Shannon Davis
• Caring for country : a new landscape paradigm in Australia / Jane L. Lennon
• On calling place : language, naming and the understanding of landscape character attributes of cultural places in the Asia Pacific region / Gini Lee
• Perspectives on landscape : some Canadian approaches / Lisa Prosper
• The embodied city and metropolitan landscape / Stephen Dobson
• Landscape, local knowledge and democracy : the work of the landscape observatory of Catalonia / Joan Nogué and Pere Sala
• Conclusion : seeing obstacles and finding ways ahead / Graham Fairclough, Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin and Carys Swanwick.