Search for dissertations about: "landscape"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 1117 swedish dissertations containing the word landscape.

  2. 6. Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula

    Author : Jenny Nord; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; European landscape convention; Bronze Age landscape; landscape archaeology; historic landscape characterisation; place and space; landscape memories; rock-carvings; cupmarks; mortuary monuments; burial mounds; burial cairns; stonesettings; communication; chronology; management issues; cultural biography; intangible values; long term stability; long term change;

    Abstract : Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of today’s landscape. READ MORE

  4. 7. Continuous Landscapes in Finite Space : Making Sense of Satellite Images in Social Science

    Author : Anders Wästfelt; Ulf Sporrong; Christer Persson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Land use; Landcover; Landscape; Landscape transition; Landscape characterisation; Remote sensed images; Spatial context; Hybrid characterisation; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : Questions of landscape values connected to agriculture and environment are always related to local land use. In order to study land use it is necessary to understand the intentions of the users as well as the conditions for land use in a specific landscape. READ MORE

  5. 8. Environmental Assessments of Landscape Changes : Interdisciplinary studies in rural Tanzania

    Author : Louise Simonsson; Lennart Strömquist; Annika Dahlberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Geography; Environmental assessment; interdisciplinary methodology; landscape; perceptions; preferences; land; forest; miombo woodlands; resources; biodiversity; Tanzania; Geografi; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to show how biogeophysical and social processes are interlinked in landscape change, and to propose approaches for interdisciplinary environmental assessments (such as EIAs), concentrating on developing countries’ situations, and representation of findings from such studies. Landscape in its holistic sense is a very good concept and basis for intellectual and practical use in environmental dialogues. READ MORE

  6. 9. Change and Persistence in a Reformed Landscape : A geographical analysis of land reforms and landscape change in Muhu and Rapla municipalities, Estonia, c. 1840 to 2003

    Author : Peeter Maandi; Göran Hoppe; Michael Jones; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; land reforms; landscape; landownership; Muhu; Rapla; Estonia; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : A land reform is usually introduced to create conditions for change, either in agriculture or in the character of landownership. Since the middle of the 19th century, numerous radical land reforms have been implemented in rural Estonia, often at times of political and social upheaval. READ MORE

  7. 10. On the complexity of dealing with introduced plants as cultural heritage : a historical multidisciplinary study of plants introduced to Norway from 1750 to 1900, exemplified with Abies alba Mill. (European silver fir) as a case species

    Author : Ulrika Ridbäck; Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; plants; flora; Norway; European silver fir; Abies alba; plant introduction; history; landscape management;

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