Four types of cultural landscape models within geoinformation modeling: challenges, opportunities, limitations

Geoinformation modeling has been used for a long time inventory, mapping, typology, assessment of cultural landscapes in landscape planning procedures and the development management regimes territories outstanding historical value. However, field view researchers there are still mainly structural models – cartographic representations basic elements landscape, far from exhaustive contents concept "cultural landscape" not characterizing it as space residence, survival experience. To solve this problem, fundamentally different needed functioning (reflecting productivity human-cultivated ecosystems), relationship (describing social structure society its interaction with surrounding landscape), metaphysical that allowed person to perceive "world".