Transition and Transformation of a Rural Landscape: Abandonment and Rewilding

The concepts of slow environmental change through evolutionary processes associated with ordinary artefacts from Central European rural life as part biogeographical morphology was studied in Gori?ko Landscape Park, northeastern Slovenia. research based on field observations, including the recording a former aristocratic dwelling and two small farmsteads, all abandoned. An analysis extant residual artefacts, their situ placement utility undertaken. value items ascertaining local perceptions, occupations utilizations landscape resources, various viewpoints, discussed relationship to surrounding landscape. authors found that abandoned buildings are now utilised faunal habitat, ruins were reincorporated into wider study sites represent empty places process returning nature after retreat human activities. examined transition transformation biodegradable/non-biodegradable components within