Book Review: Plieninger, T., and C. Bieling. 2012. Resilience and the Cultural Landscape Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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In their book, Resilience and the cultural landscape – understanding and managing change in human-shaped environments, the editors Plieninger and Bieling bring together cultural landscape and resilience approaches to provide new insights into the socialecological resilience of cultural landscapes. They have combined 19 contributions from a broad scholarship of both communities, written in an accessible and engaging style. The book is for anyone interested not only in analyzing but also in managing change in human-shaped environments in the context of sustainability.
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