Globally Important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): An Eco-Cultural Landscape Perspective
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Human beings interact with ecosystem through concrete practices, these practices being determined by changing cultural perceptions, both in space and time. There is a wide recognition throughout the globe and across disciplines that regions of ecological prudence exhibit a symbiotic relationship between habitats and culture (Ramakrishnan, 2001). This explicates that culture and environment have held a symbolic relationship throughout human evolution, until the beginning of industrialization. The concept of the ‘sacred’ in a cultural sense, an intangible entity has entered into the ecological paradigm, not only because human societies have traditionally looked at Nature with awe and reverence, but also because of their strong dependence on Nature to obtain their livelihood needs (Ramakrishnan, 1992; Ramakrishnan et. al., 1998). The concept of culturally valued sacred species, sacred groves (ecosystems) and sacred landscapes (landscapes) come under this category. With an exploitative viewpoint rapidly replacing the traditional value systems which determined ecosystem integrity, and the linked traditional management practices. Understanding the drivers of this change is an interesting area of study from a historical ecology perspective (Heer, 1975; Sanders, 1960; Ovsiyannikov and Terebikhin, 1994; Hughes, 1998).
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Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
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