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Historical Landscape Evolution
Several natural processes determine the landscape and its evolution, over relatively short or relatively long periods of time. On the scale of human life, the evolution induced by common erosive–depositional processes or by transgressive–regressive phases can be considered slow compared with catastrophic events (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis or large mass movements). However, both can produce significant effects on human communities, which then respond, by adapting or migrating, to the natural modifications of the local landscape. Since protohistoric times, however, the increase in planned uses of the environment has resulted in human communities increasingly becoming the protagonists of landscape change. To a greater extent, in the historical period, the landscape has changed; these changes, more or less continuously, have been due to the overlapping of natural and man-induced processes. While, on the one hand, humankind has been and continues to be prone to natural landscape changes, on the other hand, in an attempt to mitigate the risks, they have become an actor in the creation of a new landscape more suitable for their needs. The purpose of this Special Issue (Historical Landscape Evolution) is to highlight the variations of the landscapes produced, in different locations and in defined time intervals and historical contexts, by environment–human interactions, evaluating, where possible, their relative weight and positive and negative effects on both human communities and the natural environment.
Historical Landscape Evolution
Several natural processes determine the landscape and its evolution, over relatively short or relatively long periods of time. On the scale of human life, the evolution induced by common erosive–depositional processes or by transgressive–regressive phases can be considered slow compared with catastrophic events (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis or large mass movements). However, both can produce significant effects on human communities, which then respond, by adapting or migrating, to the natural modifications of the local landscape. Since protohistoric times, however, the increase in planned uses of the environment has resulted in human communities increasingly becoming the protagonists of landscape change. To a greater extent, in the historical period, the landscape has changed; these changes, more or less continuously, have been due to the overlapping of natural and man-induced processes. While, on the one hand, humankind has been and continues to be prone to natural landscape changes, on the other hand, in an attempt to mitigate the risks, they have become an actor in the creation of a new landscape more suitable for their needs. The purpose of this Special Issue (Historical Landscape Evolution) is to highlight the variations of the landscapes produced, in different locations and in defined time intervals and historical contexts, by environment–human interactions, evaluating, where possible, their relative weight and positive and negative effects on both human communities and the natural environment.
Historical Landscape Evolution
2024-05-14
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
historical and cultural streets , walking experience , walking behavior , public health , cultural landscapes , landscape ecology , evolutionary economic geography , spatiotemporal evolution , Mount Lushan , Colchis , archaeology , GIS , settlement patterns , urbanization , physical environment , seismic activity , hydrological networks , climate change , desert landscape , coastal plain , paleoflood record , El Niño proxies , debris flow , slack-water deposit , braided streams , desert pavement , regolith denudation , historic soil erosion , USLE , Anthropocene , Wölbäcker , ridge and furrow , historic land use , erosion management , historic anthroposphere , HUL , cultural landscape , anthropopression , landscape transformation , heritage conservation , spatial history , the Second World War , coast , Baltic Sea , Gdansk , historic cartographic documents , landscape evolution , fluvial dynamics , Umbria (central Italy)
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