商品簡介
This book describes the evolution of island landscapes and their present conditions in Europe. Rather than attempt the impossibly large task of investigating all the islands of Europe, it deals with a sample of contrasting islands, large and small, belonging to different countries and related to different human cultures, including Cyprus, Venice and the Venice Lagoon, Sardinia and the island of Asinara off Sardinia, the Isles of Scilly, Saaremaa, Bornholm and Korcula. Further research on islands in other regions of Europe, and a few around the world, will also be considered. It includes the unique identities and values of particular islands, especially islands of different sizes with different types of relation to the mainland. In bringing together this international and interdisciplinary examination, it proposes for the first time a common European method for the history, description, classification and planning of island landscape which provides a useful basis for a more sustainable and culturally-oriented future development of these fragile and unique landscapes. The book is divided into eight main sections: an introductory section on Island Landscape; History; Characterisation; Identity; Scenario; E-tools; Island Landscapes of the World; and Conclusions. Each part contains: a summary, an introductory chapter by the part-editor and shorter chapters by other contributors with examples and case-studies drawn from different European islands.
作者簡介
Gloria Pungetti is Founder Director of the Cambridge Centre for Landscape and People and Chair of the Darwin College Society at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is also Founder Chair of Biocultural Landscape and Seascape at DIPNET, University of Sassari, Italy. She has an extensive record of publications and coordinates international initiatives and European projects including ESLAND, European Culture expressed in Island Landscapes. Her advances in holistic landscape research, biocultural landscape and seascape have received international acclaim.
