The European Landscape as a Task: Understanding the Past, Engaging in the Present, Living the Future?

Bas Pedroli*

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Abstract

Landscape stories based on memories and dreams are essential means to realise how we identify with our landscapes and with what makes up the value of its past. However, the ever more dominating global market orientation of the agricultural sector (and of the many other policy sectors impacting landscape development) makes the European landscape undergo serious and at times radical changes. Landscape change is normal, but it can work out very detrimental if it has not been consciously envisaged. Engaging in today’s landscape and in the functions it can have for society is a precondition for a living landscape. Such engagement will not come from policy. Engaging means getting involved, based on shared interests, using local as well as scientific knowledge and paying respect to the land managers of today and to the unique character of the landscape. If we manage, we can responsibly live the future of the European landscape.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCultivating Continuity of the European Landscape
Subtitle of host publicationNew Challenges, Innovative Perspectives
EditorsM. Agnoletti, S. Dobričič, T. Matteini, J.M. Palerm
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages533-537
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9783031257131
ISBN (Print)9783031257124, 9783031257155
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Mar 2024

Publication series

NameEnvironmental History (Netherlands)
Volume15
ISSN (Print)2211-9019
ISSN (Electronic)2211-9027

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