Cultural Severance and the Environment

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 Bialowieza 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 Timein Upper

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"Cultural Severance and the Environment explores topics related to the 'eco-cultural' legacy of traditional management practices of common-held resources. ... the specificity of the subject matter will make the book most relevant to students and researchers with an interest in commons and traditional commons management in Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals." (J. L. Rhoades, Choice, Vol. 51 (6), February, 2014)