European Rural Landscapes: Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment

1. the Permanence of Persistence and Change.- 2. the Languages of Rural Landscapes.- 3. “This Is Not a Landscape”: Circulating Reference and Land Shaping.- 4. Naming and Claiming Discourse.- 5. Between Insideness and Outsideness — Studying Locals’ Perceptions of Landscape.- 6. Landscape Consumption in Otepää, Estonia.- 7. Countryside Imagery in Finnish National Discourse.- 8. Religious Places — Changing Meanings. the Case of Saaremaa Island, Estonia.- 9. Of Oaks, Erratic Boulders, and Milkmaids.- 10. the Border and the Bordered.- 11. A Hidden World? A Gendered Perspective on Swedish Historical Maps.- 12. When Sweden Was Put on the Map.- 13. Tycho Brahe, Cartography and Landscape in 16th Century Scandinavia.- 14. New Money and the Land Market.- 15. the Landscape of Vittskövle Estate — At the Crossroads of Feudalism And Modernity.- 16. Greens, Commons and Shifting Power Relations in Flanders.- 17. Enclosure Landscapes in the Uplands of England and Wales.- 18. Land Purchase and the Survival of Swedish Ethnicity in Estonia.- 19.The Dynamics Of Property Rights In Post-Communist East Germany.- 20. Different Methods For the Protection Of Cultural Landscapes.- 21. the Significance of the Dutch Historical GIS Histland.- 22. the Future Role of Agriculture in Rural Communities.- 23. Danish Farmers and the Cultural Environment.- 24. the Human Factor in Biodiversity.- 25. Diversity of Estonian Coastal Landscapes: Past and Future.- 26. Management Strategies in Forest Landscapes in Norway.- 27. Past Landscape Use as an Ecological Influence on the Actual Environment.- 28. Can Landscapes Be Read?.- 29. the Permanent Conference and the Study of the Rural Landscape.

The book focuses on aspects of landscape, broadly related to issues of language, representation and power, never addressed on a pan-European landscape level before It offers a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary processes in European landscapes with empirical evidence covering much of the continent