Overview
- Issues of seasonality have received little attention in academic writing
- Opens up new perspectives on how seasons in different parts of the world are perceived by people and societies
- Gives an interdisciplinary perspective on seasonality research and its application to planning
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 7)
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About this book
Seasonality is so obvious that we very often forget about it when doing landscape research. Seasonality is the interface where humans and nature really interact. Seasonality is expressed both in the natural rhythms of the landscape as well as in human lifestyles. Seasonality creates varying patterns of use and appears in spatial practices, paintings, human behaviour. Also, seasonality itself changes together with societal changes – in agricultural societies, summer used to be the working season and winter the resting one; now we are more and more used to summer holidays…
Landscapes are seasonal both in terms of time and space, the boundaries between seasons are celebrated – do different seasonalities influence also our mindsets? In most cases we talk about (and paint and study) summer landscapes, but there are more than that. There are times with less light, less leaves on the trees to influence visibility, times when moist or snow make places inaccessible. Should seasonality be taken into account in planning, and if yes, then how?
This book studies seasonal landscape in Scandinavia and Brazil, on the Aegean islands and in European mountains, in agriculture tourism, in cities and in the countryside.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seasonal Landscapes
Editors: Hannes Palang, Helen Sooväli, Anu Printsmann
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4990-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4982-8Published: 23 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7243-6Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4990-3Published: 24 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 257
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Ecology, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics