Heritage Landscapes, Their Inventory, Management and Future
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 794
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIS; natural landscapes; cultural landscapes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The landscapes on the Earth's surface change continuously as a way to adapt to external conditions. These conditions can be caused by natural processes, human-influenced or accelerated processes, or directly targeted by human activity. With these rapid developments, their historical value is lost. This is because they are able to demonstrate the appearance and functioning of the landscape in the past, which is of irreplaceable educational importance. Nevertheless, some places on Earth have avoided rapid development and changes, so they can fulfill this educational significance. A comparison with originally similar landscapes that have undergone changes is a starting point for understanding changes, their causes and impacts. At the same time, one can also understand why some landscapes have resisted external changes and transferred their key positive characteristics from the past to the present. This, in turn, has implications for the search for tools that maintain such characteristics in the process of territorial decision-making and planning.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about the development of professional interest in heritage landscapes, their current state, knowledge, identification, mapping, evaluation, protection and planning.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Definition of heritage landscapes (scaling over time) and typology;
- Inventory and mapping procedures (criteria, indicators, resolution, outlining, etc.);
- Best practice (examples of area management, advertising, legislative approach, administration, etc.);
- Planning procedures applied in heritage landscapes.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Jaromír Kolejka
Dr. Igor Gallay
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- historical landscapes
- identification criteria
- inventory procedures
- classification and typology
- management, protection and planning
- sustainable tourism
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