Assessing village authenticity with satellite images: a method to identify intact cultural landscapes in Europe
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The village with its characteristic zones of different land use from the center to the periphery is a basic unit of Europe's cultural landscapes. Loss of the authentic pre-industrial village structure characterized by a fine-grained structure of arable land and wooded grasslands is a threat to both cultural heritage and biodiversity in many rural landscapes, so the village represents a scale at which integration of natural and social sciences is possible.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2003
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Distribution of deciduous stands in villages located in coniferous forest landscapes in Sweden
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Northern European coniferous forests have been transformed and their deciduous component has been reduced. Deciduous trees are now more on abandoned agricultural land.
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Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2003
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