Overview
- New conceptual development
- Broad academic base Global appeal Relevance to current environmental debates
- Issues of landscape and biodiversity conservation on a par with climate change in terms of their importance
Part of the book series: Environmental History (ENVHIS, volume 2)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Setting the Scene on Cultural Severance and its Implications
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Case Studies of Cultural Landscapes from Around the World
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The History and Use of Landscape Commons
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About this book
This major book explores commons, lands and rights of usage in common, traditional and customary practices, and the cultural nature of ‘landscapes’. Importantly, it addresses now critical matters of ‘cultural severance’ and largely unrecognized impacts on biodiversity and human societies, and implications for conservation, sustainability, and local economies. The book takes major case studies and perspectives from around the world, to address contemporary issues and challenges from historical and ecological perspectives. The book developed from major international conferences and collaborations over around fifteen years, culminating ‘The End of Tradition?’ in Sheffield, UK, 2010. The chapters are from individuals who are both academic researchers and practitioners. These ideas are now influencing bodies like the EU, UNESCO, and FAO, with recognition by major organisations and stakeholders, of the critical state of the environment consequent on cultural severance.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Cultural Severance and the Environment explores topics related to the ‘eco-cultural’ legacy of traditional management practices of common-held resources. … the specificity of the subject matter will make the book most relevant to students and researchers with an interest in commons and traditional commons management in Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.” (J. L. Rhoades, Choice, Vol. 51 (6), February, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Severance and the Environment
Book Subtitle: The Ending of Traditional and Customary Practice on Commons and Landscapes Managed in Common
Editors: Ian D. Rotherham
Series Title: Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6159-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6158-2Published: 23 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8052-0Published: 13 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6159-9Published: 09 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-9019
Series E-ISSN: 2211-9027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 447
Topics: Environment, general, Ecosystems, Environmental Management, History, general, Human Geography