Cultural Severance and the Environment : The Ending of Traditional and Customary Practice on Commons and Landscapes Managed in Common - Rotherham, Ian D.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Part 1: Setting the Scene on Cultural Severance and its Implications -- 1. Cultural Landscapes and Problems Associated with the Loss of Tradition and Custom: an introduction and overview -- 2. Cultural Severance and the End of Tradition -- 3. Globalism and the Enclosure of the Landscape Commons -- 4. A Natural Origin of the Commons: Interactions of People, Animals and Invisible Biodiversity -- Part 2: Case Studies of Cultural Landscapes from Around the World -- 5. Valorising the European rural landscape: the case of the Italian national register of historical rural landscapes -- 6. Severance of Traditional Grazing Landscape in the Himalayas: Commons and Ecosystems in Crisis? -- 7. Early Wood Commons and Beyond -- 8. What, How, and Why? Collecting Traditional Knowledge on Forest Uses in Switzerland -- 9. The History of Utilization and Management of Commons and Consequences of Current Social Change in the Alpine Region of Austria -- 10. Guided Pollards and the Basque Woodland during the Early Modern Ages -- 11. The Evolution of Forest Landscapes in Spain's Central Mountain Range: Different Forests for Different Traditional Uses -- 12. Of Commoners and Kings -- 13. The cultural landscape of royal hunting gardens from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century in Białowieża Primeval Forest -- 14. The End of Common Uses and Traditional Management in a Central European Wood -- Part 3: The History and Use of Landscape Commons -- 15. 'A very fair field indeed...': an Archaeology of the Common Lands of English Towns -- 16. From Pasture Woodland, via Deer Park and Common, to Cultural Severance - a Case Study of the Commons of Ashampstead, Berkshire -- 17. Changing Cornish Commons -- 18. The Commons of the Ancient Parish of Sheffield -- 19. Traditional Uses, Destruction, Survival and Restoration of Common Land: a South Yorkshire Perspective -- 20. Abandoned Landscapes of Former German Settlement in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia -- 21. Land management and Biodiversity through Time in Upper Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, UK: Understanding the Impact of Traditional Management -- 22. Policing the Commons in the Vale of York, c.1550 - c.1850 -- 23. The Parliamentary Enclosure of Upland Commons in North-west England: Economic, Social and Cultural Impacts -- Part 4: Issues and Approaches for Future Commons & Cultural Landscapes -- 24. Biodiversity Conservation and the Traditional Management of Common Land: the Case of the New Forest -- 25. Looking Back to the Future: ancient, working pollards and Europe's silvo-pastoral systems -- 26. Promoting Stewardship of New Commons: Lessons from Wake Nature Partnership -- 27. End of Tradition, Reworking of Custom: Re-assembling Satoyama Woodlands on Tokyo's Urban Fringe -- 28. New Commons for Old: Inspiring New Cultural Traditions -- 29. Community Grassland Conservation on a Former Common in the Wye Valley, England -- 30. Upland Wood Pastures -- Part 5: Conclusions & Overview: the Implications of Severance for Future Landscapes -- 31. Concluding Thoughts on the Implications of Cultural Severance on Landscapes, Ecology and People.
Keywords: Environment; Ecosystems; Environmental management; History; Human geography; Environment, general; Ecosystems; Environmental Management; History, general; Human Geography