Landscapes, identities, and development

Contents: Introduction, Zoran Roca and John A. Agnew Part I Landscape and Identity between Imagery and Reality: Limits to transformation of places' identity: theoretical and methodological questions, Lionella Scazzosi The ineffable, ethereal and evanescent as values of local, national and European identities, Edmunds Valdemars BunkA!e Landscape and national identity in Europe: England versus Italy in the role of landscape identity formation, John Agnew The dual character of landscape in Lahemaa national park, Estonia, Anu Printsmann, Marju KA ivupuu and Hannes Palang Young immigrants and landscape: cultural mediation and territorial creativity, Benedetta Castiglioni, Tania Rossetto and Alessia de Nardi Cultural 'hybridism', identitary anthropophagy and transterritoriality, RogA (c) rio Haesbaert From landscaping to terraforming: gulf mega-projects, cartographic visions and urban imaginaries, Mark Jackson and Veronica della Dora. Part II Landscape History, Heritage and Social Change: European landscapes: continuity and change, Johannes Renes The Brioni archipelago: functional identity of a historical landscape, Ivancica Schrunk and Vlasta Begovic Expanding the European landscape: aqueducts and the Spanish usurpation of MA (c) xico, William E. Doolittle Uncovering a past landscape: Rio de Janeiro in the 17th century, Mauricio de Almeida Abreu Striking roots in soil unknown: post-war transformations of cultural landscape of former German towns in Poland, Barbara Borkowska The cultivated mire landscape as a mirror of Finnish society, Minna Tanskanen Barroso revisited: long-term consequences of emigration on mountain landscape in Northern Portugal, Bodo Freund. Part III Landscape Assets, Resources and Services: From landscape to tourism and back: the emergence of a Greek landscape conscience, Theano S. Terkenli Biodiversity and land abandonment: connecting agriculture, place and nature in the landscape, Ruth Beilin, Regina Lindborg and Cibele Queiroz Natural landscape inside metropolis: example of St Petersburg, Gregory A. Isachenko and Andrey Y. Reznikov The evolving landscape of the Austin-San Antonio corridor, Frederick A. Day and James W. Vaughan Land use changes as basis for environmental protection: the example of the South Moravian region, Czech Republic, Hana SkokanovA! and Tereza StrA!nskA! Assessing sustainability impact of land management with the ecosystem services concept: towards a framework for Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes, Tobias Plieninger and Thanasis Kizos Claiming territorial identity and local development: from wishes to deeds, Zoran Roca, JosA (c) AntA³nio Oliveira and Maria de NazarA (c) Roca How can the different functions of gardens in suburban areas be evaluated? Towards a framework for an integrated method of evaluating aesthetic, ecological, environmental and economic functions of gardens in suburban areas, Athanasia Mavridou and Thanasis Kizos. Part IV Landscape Research and Development Planning: Research supporting landscape policy: a challenge, Daniel Terrason 'Landscape' as a sign: semiotics and methodological issues in landscape studies, Tor Arnesen 'Participation' between a must and negligence: paradigmatic resistance to landscape impacts of wind industry in Gaspesie (Quebec) and FinistAre (France), Marie-JosA (c) Fortin, Sophie Le Floch and Anne-Sophie Devanne New landscape concerns in the development of renewable energy projects in South-West Spain, Marina Frolova and BelA (c) n PA (c) rez PA (c) rez GIS approach to historical landscape changes: the case for modernization at Lake Biwa in central Japan, Carlos Zeballos, Caroline BorrA (c), Kati LindstrA m and Junzo Uchiyama Beyond regional landscape typologies: a multi-scaled and trans-regional landscape characterization for the federal state of Belgium, Veerle Van Eetvelde and Marc Antrop Back to the future: landscape and planning history as a means to understand modern landscapes, Mattias QvistrA m A new GIS procedure for peri-urban landscape change detection, Enrico Borgogno Mondino, Barbara Drusi and Robert Chiabrando In lieu of conclusion: changing scope and ambitions in landscape concerns, Paul Claval Index.