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Functional and Structural Changes of Agricultural Landscapes: How Changes are Conceived by Local Farmers in Two Danish Rural Communities
- Source :
- Landscape Research. 35:633-653
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2010.
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Abstract
- The subject of this paper is the views of farmers concerning their local landscape. In two contrasting Danish case study areas previously analysed in the 1990s, a small number of farmers have been interviewed regarding their views of the landscape and recent changes in their respective area including landscape changes. One of the areas (Hvorslev) is characterized by good conditions for agriculture, intensive husbandry production and a relatively stable landscape history. The other (Nees) has more marginal conditions and major changes in land use characterize the recent landscape history. We analyze the way in which the landscape is perceived by farmers and compare their views of the changing landscapes with the actual recorded changes on the one hand, and with other significant changes on the other. Farmers in both areas emphasized the same type of structural changes in agriculture and in the villages as significant, whereas only farmers in Nees indicated that the landscape had changed. When aske...
- Subjects :
- Landscape change
Land use
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
language.human_language
Danish
Geography
Agriculture
Agricultural land
language
business
Landscape history
Socioeconomics
Landscape archaeology
Agricultural landscapes
Nature and Landscape Conservation
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699710 and 01426397
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Landscape Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8a94bf9384bca4195ee228e2153a551e